Antiwork

For context I was in the psychiatric hospital a couple of months ago due to work sending me into a mental breakdown. I ended up discharging earlier than I was supposed to, because they called me to let me know I have run out of PTO. Since I came back I've made the decision to look for new employment. Stupid me also decided the considerate thing to do would be to tell my supervisor I'm searching for a new job. Now they're all but pushing me out the door, so they can get a new person in. Mentally things have been almost worse. I've had to leave early to be mentally evaluated a couple of times. I've decided that it would be for the best if I take a break, and go to partial hospitalization. I informed my supervisor of this, and also told her I might not return if…

To fight against the land and business owners, we can use our collective incomes to buy property. By purchasing non-market housing and converting it to communes, that collectively provides all services and necessities, living expenses can be made dirt cheap. Just 100 workers with a general salary of $20-30k would have a collective income of $2-3 million. With shared utilities and food being bought in bulk, they could live at an extremely low expense. The majority of their salary could go to paying off the debt of the building they live in. Once it's paid off, the amount of excess wealth could be invested into luxury and leisure. Allowing poor people, who would have otherwise never had dreamed of a retirement, now be able to retire early in their life. Even those better off, financially, could be attracted to such a lifestyle. Communes could also provide plenty of other services…

So Long story short I’m a caregiver and a full time autism services worker in Southern California I work 60-70 hours a week and all everyone i work with does is pay and treat me like shit. Is this normal ? I just drove to a shift and discovered it had been given away with no notification. My bosses in both jobs take advantage of my nurturing nature and use the clients as a way of guilting me into my sub-living wage and terrible working conditions. I’m made to commute constantly everyday and have been written up for being 2 minutes late or not staying for forced overtime. I also face transphobic passive aggressiveness as the most easy scapegoat for libs and conservatives alike. How do I make a change before I’m worked to death for loving disability caregiving but not wanting to b paid pennies to b spit on,…

This is more of a rant over something that just happened to me. Context: in February my doctor suggested I (26M) do some blood and urine tests every 2-3 months until next year just to check on the possibility of me having a certain disease. Nothing to worry much thought, as my doctor is really calm about this situation, and the tests are just to be 100% sure that i'm ok instead of ~80% sure. So, today I got my upcoming round of tests scheduled for next week and I already warned my supervisors at work about it. Their first reaction was “Next week? You know we have a really big project to finish next week, even missing a morning will impact the whole team…”. As soon as I heard this I already lost my motivation to even work for the next days (I kinda like the job I have…

Obvs alt account. I'm burnt out. I've been with my company for 6 months, and my company is actually great. My team… manager… not so much. I'm an auto adjuster and I generally like what I do, when the workload is manageable. Lately it has not been and I don't feel any support from my supervisor or my team. I talk with people I was in training with and their team dynamic is so different. There is support and help. Also, 75% of people who legit need to make an insurance claim are decent. 25% are needy, entitled, dramatic ass bithes and how the fuck to they function in their lives? Why are people so goddamn ridiculous. When I worked in life insurance with actual fucking dead people, they were way less dramatic. When I actually have time, I can manage those folks well, but I'm so fucking overwhelmed and…

I'm leaking my company's dirty laundry because they have routinely demonstrated that they don't care about their employees. They would rather send cookie cakes, and gift cards than fair raises to their employees. In order to even have a chance at a raise of more than 3% you have to go outside the review process and essentially make your case and actively fight for more. To add insult to injury, after 3 years now of adapting to the changing needs of our clients through the COVID pandemic they now inform us that this summer the reason our internal website was down was that they had a data breach where they lost specifically employee data… Could this be because they cheap out whenever it comes to protecting or compensating their employees???? Yep, so there you have it. Fuck IST Management services out of ATL, Georgia. Have a lovely day people and…

Who said unions are just for your place of work? Let me hit you with a couple of facts from a quick Google search. 35% of American households live in rental properties. Rental rates have increased by 31% over the last 10 years. 41% of rentals spend more than a third of their income on rent alone. A LOT of work has gone into convincing us that these horrible circumstances are just a consequence of the time we live in. They're not. They're the result of a protection racket being run at a nation-wide scale. If you don't pay in, good luck finding an apartment that ISN'T owned by a massive property management company. The more companies like Black Rock and JP Morgan scoop up real estate in bulk, the more we need to find ways of defending ourselves and our communities from insidious leeches in tailored suits. If you'd…

I am a student worker at a University. My department is one of the lowest paying at the University. I make $12/hour in a supervisory position while most other departments offer $15/hour for entry level positions (and fast food in the area offers 15-20). I live in the fastest growing city in the region and the cost of living is growing exponentially. Being a student worker and a woman can make it difficult to speak up for what I deserve in a job. About a month and a half ago, I finally worked up the courage to ask for a raise, though I definitely didn't ask for as much as I should have. I was told that they could not guarantee anything but that they would look into it. I was updated roughly every two weeks with a vague “they're looking at the budget.” Today, I was finally told that…

Hi everyone. I work in a restaurant in Canada and this restaurant has decided to close for three weeks in January (basically 1st – 24th). I am a salaried member of staff and have been told that I will not be paid for the time the restaurant is closed. The owners are not closing the restaurant for any reason other than they think the profit won’t be worth being open as January is usually a quiet time in hospitality. My assumption is that my salary covers all 52 weeks of the year and that I accrue two weeks of holidays on top of that. I usually get any holiday pay for the current year (2022) that I have not used paid out in December. As I will have no holiday pay accrued in January for the year of 2023, the owners are indicating that I will just not be paid…