Antiwork

Employees deserve the time off to be with their families. Do not support stores who open early and make employees work a holiday!

Anyone else getting out tomorrow, while the getting’s good? (Before the institutional failures of your company completely absorb your personal life for the next entire month over the holidays?) There’s a lot wrong at my company, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was being scheduled for 9 straight days STARTING on Thanksgiving, and with skeleton-crew support for the weekend after Thanksgiving — good thing that’s not traditionally a busy customer service time!!! Merry Quits-mas to all, and to all good luck recouping your last check!

First post Everything listed there also made me realize this, too. I like making coffee. It's fun! But knowing how they run the place ruins it. Also, the fact that every store of the franchise share one big group chat is so… yeah. One manager spammed the chat because they didn't want to close. It's your job description! You got the manager position because it is believed you can run a store on your own. It was a nice run, but it's time to move on. Happy holidays to everyone else who's quitting their job this season! May you all find a better job!

During my interview in [expensive coastal city] in WA., I couldn’t believe the number of red flags. “It’s a family environment & we all help and fill in for each other” Another employee performs all services I’d be hired for, but which are not within the scope of their license “Are you married?” ”Have children?” ‍ “How old are you?” 🫣 “The starting wage in this area is $18” *Job posting listed as $22 My takeaway 1) Basically, they want to ensure that I have no obligations that would get in their way of churning & burning AND/ OR 2) Regardless if the questions are not purposefully discriminatory, I could reasonably expect zero professional boundaries. Can you imagine calling out sick at this place? 🤦‍️

Long story short: I’m an insurance producer and my boss is a loud mouth, judgmental, conservative who is running his business in the ground and I doubt it will stay afloat another couple of months because I have been carrying the weight of sales of 6 months. A giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I am SO happy that today was my last day. He really didn’t even believe that I was leaving.

Thoughts on employers encouraging staff to not report near misses? Anyone else had this? I work at a very large hardware retailer and it seems to be common practice for people to not report near misses for fear of having stuff taken away. Retail colleagues will be familiar with the no stanley knife rule etc. Seems crazy to me this culture is so prevalent in workplaces where we get a few quid above minimum wage at most. Had a few close calls myself and to be honest its so against the grain I dont event want to report it for fear of looking like a do-gooder!