Antiwork

I’m currently studying software development and I had this idea come to me a couple days ago and wanted to share to see what everyone thought about it. The idea is simple, a website where you can enter in your place of work and anonymously show that you would like to unionize. Each company (or location) would simply show a count of how many people are in support of unionizing. No profiles, no risk of your company retaliating against an individual, just a simple running count. A lot of workers may be in favor of unionizing, but too afraid to bring it up to their co-workers or feel they’re alone in their support. This way you can take a look at your companies number and be able to tell if there is already large union support. Just knowing that over half of a workplace is in favor can be the…

So my boss’s boss spammed my coworker with meetings and told her to just “manually fix” a bunch of files that didn’t convert properly (scenario changed to protect privacy) She requested that I send my file over after hours, and asked if my coworker would be willing to work overtime during the weekend to get it done. She then said that she can have a couple of days off during the week once this project is done. (And from experience she will just request that these days be taken at a later time) However 1) the team pulls OT on the regular and this was not offered to other team members 2) fixing the files manually would be akin to adding numbers up manually in excel and hard coding the individual cells I’ve handed in my notice, so I don’t care what she thinks of me anymore, she’s not even…

Hello people of antiwork! I've been a lurker here for quite some time and honestly I had hoped to never need to be a person to ask for advice here, but given current circumstances, I can't just stand by and watch my partner suffer like this anymore, at least not without a fight. If it helps, this is in Texas, specifically further south. Bit of context beforehand: My partner works for a new (as in early 2000s) yet decently sized pizza chain after MONTHS of trying to work at a location. We honestly loved the food there and something sorta just clicked in place once we discovered they where hiring, thus began our journey to land a job at a location. The first place we tried was the most preferred of the choices, but dispute looking good to the interviewer who was the general manager, it was shot down by…

My employer formally imposed a 3-days-in-office mandate early this year. A few months ago they sent out a survey on the policy. This past week they sent an email that cherry-picked and spun hard a few questions to claim success – while simultaneously noting that many workers blew off this 'successful' policy. Our survey confirms that a significant number of eligible employees have adopted the model and are actively benefiting from the flexibility provided. Employees overwhelmingly (more than 90%) report that their leader supports their use of the model and enables them to work effectively in a virtual environment. Most importantly, employees and their leaders using the model report that individual and team performance, including cross functional team performance, remains strong and is supported by the model. […] Despite our progress, a higher-than-expected number of eligible employees are not yet working consistently with our model. […] Employee feedback confirms that…

I applied for a job as a receptionist at dog kennel in my area, things were going well with our zoom interview a few nights ago. I was then invited for a test drive at the facility, in his email he spoke of a tour and seeing what the day-to-day looks like at the kennel. He told me the tour would take about 4-5 hours, I thought this was a long time to ask for, but it sounded fine since I was looking to see what this role was going be like. I arrived there at 8am and as the tour started he began asking me to complete various tasks around the kennel, saying they were quite short staffed right now and needed to see if I was a good candidate for the job. So here I was at the dog kennel scooping dog poop, feeding and watering the dogs,…

Dairy manager here, just a quick vent. Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but I am so fucking done and burned out. I make $18 an hour (which years ago I thought was good pay, but now?). Price Chopper/Market 32 has cut it's payroll so badly (at least in this district/zone) that the department managers all literally work alone. Our store manager and others are using vacation time to save on hours. Nothing is getting done, shrink and sales are getting worse, we keep getting nasty emails from our zone director (basically a district manager). I'm just tired, frustrated and even a bit scared about my future, because every job is getting like this. We shouldn't all have to be CEOs to make a living.

I’ve been working at home improvement place for ab a year now making subpar money (ab 10/hr and also no benefits) for essentially managing a entire warehouse by myself. Today I went to go talk to my boss about organization and some other things when asks me to do him a favor. He proceeds to ask me to get a haircut and if I do he will give me more money. I’m kinda furious and don’t know what to think but I don’t know if it’s warranted or not. I just have hard time wondering how my hair is the bigger factor in my raise and not the constant hard work I’m having to do. Any thoughts on this? Is this right? Edit: I am not habitually required to cut my hair by rule of our company policy. I’m essentially getting a dangling pay raise in front of my face…