Antiwork

I don’t know if I should post here, or r/aspergers. My bosses boss (she leads all of us) asked me today to make sure that each desk, over 5 floors has a chair (I am fine with that) then asked to make sure 4 chairs are around 3 tables, in open plan meeting areas on each floor. I do that, but the problem is I can’t time/figure out or stop people in the building from grabbing a chair, from wherever they want, or their own, taking it in into a meeting room, using it, and not bringing/putting it back, to where they took it in the first place. So I finish putting the four chairs in each section, go to the next floor, do the same thing there, go to the previous floor, and all the chairs have been removed or placed elsewhere, making me feel anxious, thinking that if…

I think what r/antiwork represents more than anything else, is the failure of the capitalist incentive structures that were put in place to keep the working class complacent. Since the 1970s, the advent of computers and better technology gave employers an excuse to decouple the rise in wages with the rise in productivity. Thus the former have stagnated and we find ever more insidious ways of keeping the workers in their place. The article posted regarding how debt keeps workers in the US from striking is an example of this, as well as the unanimous vote of the government to shut down the rail strike and forbid paid sick leave for those workers. What I think is good about this is the insane desperation capitalists seem to have now. All economic news outlets have their hot take of the week about how the working class is to blame for X,…

This isn't anything new to anyone. Layoffs just keep coming it seems. However, this was my first time ever getting laid off. I was so worried it was going to happen, but my boss reassured me it wouldn't and, even if my position got terminated (which it did), I'd be able to go to our collections department. Well, he found out myself and 2 others on my position were getting laid off minutes before I went into a meeting with his boss to be told about this. And no, we couldn't transfer to another department. Thankfully, though, they gave us our final paycheck and we're getting severance pay. Now I've been in call centers for 8 years so all I know is customer service. But I'm so tired of being on phones. I want to expand my skill set, but I have no idea what I want to do next…

The bar where I worked closed down last Sunday (1/15) for a remodel that would take 5 days. The goal was to be reopened by that weekend. We were only given 3 days notice, as we had planned for this many many times but it kept being postponed. So they didn't want to tell us ahead of time just in case it wasn't happening again. Sure, fine. Sucks to miss 5 days of work (about 3 shifts), but we all figured it was a necessary evil. Come Friday (1/20), we hadn't received any updates and no schedule had been released. So I reached out via group text to see what was going on. I was told by management that the remodel would extend through the weekend. Alright cool, thanks for letting us know. Now today (1/23), we get a text saying we will not be open at all this week…

Pretty full day, a variety of fun but the cherry is my mothers health has taken a turn for the worst. Long story short she has ALS and a late stage symptom hit today and my father and Iare gearing up for the shit show. Die to this i wanna get FMLA to cover my ass for the unexpected things comming. I get three days bereavement but wannaplay it safe. Ive been told to never approach work first for FMLA as theyll typically try to fuck you. How do i get this jump started? I apologize if this is the right sub for this, ill remove it and post somewhere else if needed. Ill do my best to respond to questions but ill probably be a lil slow at it.

Idk shit about this so hopefully I can get some answers. I got written up a few years ago shortly after covid had started. Long story short, my old boss hated me, wanted me gone and then wrote me up for some bs. Before covid, I had a job where I was “supposed to” go into the office a couple times a week to meet with bankers and clients. It wasn’t mandatory to go in to the office as I could pretty much work from anywhere. Once covid started, senior leadership told us to work remote until further notice. Well, my boss wrote me up for not going into the office as much as she wanted me to (Even though senior leadership had told us not to). When she asked why I wasn’t going in, I told her my wife is an ICU nurse and had a bunch of covid…

Today I was graced with the great gift of consoling my wife after she had a bad day at work. We make enough to survive above the curve of poverty, but its not the day to day that determines economic survival. We can get by just fine financially if we never do anything at all, at least until something breaks or an unexpected expense blesses us with a mandatory investment opportunity. My wife and I are both educated individuals. My wife has a masters in a field that the United States desperately needs, but the restrictions like licensing and excessively specific hiring requirements set by the government limit her ability to find a job that pays a livable wage. The jobs that do pay a living wage, only pay a living wage because they're essentially positions that are only desirable for perspective candidates who have never participated in the field,…

I apply for soni resources a few weeks ago and was schedule to be interviewed today I told them I wasn’t interesting on the adminstrative coordinator position .Bit they still want to interview me later this week does anyone think it’s a sketchy company or maybe they consider me cause I might be the ideal candidate for the job? https://preview.redd.it/81iokgl2exda1.jpg?width=1620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=50e5ea48e3e9db1576f5aa9c4d5b16e2a146346b https://preview.redd.it/bl11jgl2exda1.jpg?width=1620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a77c30aa9f24f0b57af227d30ca6dc37bca3e9f2 https://preview.redd.it/a6zx5hl2exda1.jpg?width=1620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=82160ab248e949ee2c5303c1e9132f2d97794e72 https://preview.redd.it/qpbsngl2exda1.jpg?width=1620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=0b9e3ca6b54b70e4819aaf7575ef4f083b350746