Antiwork

Last week on Thursday I was the victim of a home invasion while at a friends, had a gun pointed in my face and felt like I stared death in the eye the whole time during the ordeal while trying to not lose everything I on me or my life. Ended up having my phone, keys, wallet and car stolen. And my glasses smashed by the guy pointing the gun in my face. I was also on call that week, and I got called after they took my phone. I had to crash that night at my friends place since I didn't have keys to my apartment anymore or a way to get home and I felt a lot safer sleeping somewhere with other people after literally getting my entire life pretty much upended by this. After sleeping that off and getting a ride back to my apartment complex I…

My manager switched my off day from Tuesday to Monday starting next week. She called me today on my day off to come in and work so I told her that I have plans today. Did I handle this correctly?

Please note English isn't my native language and I apologise for any grammatical errors. Also I'm on mobile in case the formatting looks funky. The company I joined back in July seemed okay at the beginning. It's fully WFH, matched my salary expectations and the initial interview didn't raise any red flags at the time… Now I am kicking myself for not doing a deeper research. Apparently my boss is known within our industry as an unpleasant man to work for, to put it lightly. Also over time I found out that they had huge staff turnover and some recruiters straight up refuse to work with the company due to it. I'll skip over the reasons why I'm miserable here to get to the point. I have worked here for 4.5 months now and the notice period I'm required to give is 3 months. I asked for the notice period…

Chemist at my company for 5 years. My group had a bad feeling early last week when we got an undescribed meeting invite from our boss. Walked in Thursday to him and HR walking in with folders, knew it was the really bad type of meeting. Find out all of us are laid off as of December 31st, but they expect us to work as if nothing has changed until then. Gotta say, they had treated me poorly in the title and salary for the past year since silent promoting me to do the job the previous lead chemist III did, so now it makes sense they were so adamant about giving me a raise. Cannot muster the fucks to give when I get an email asking me to solve a customer's issue. Productivity has dropped to about 1%. I'll do the bare minimum just to say I did something…

I started working for a start up earlier this year, and quickly realized the owner is very well off. There was only 3 of us when I started, now there’s 4. I was hired as an independent contractor and I’m treated as an employee. I work 40 hours a week with no benefits (started at 30). I’ve realized recently that this is probably highly illegal and I could probably sue her for this. She’s terrible at communication and gives absolutely no direction for what she wants, but is very picky about the final product. I handle customer service and she expects me to give up some of my weekend to answer weekend emails. She will literally flag things to me to respond to when she clearly is capable of just doing it herself. There’s a big event coming up that will be going on for the first two weeks of…

Employer skimming checks for breaks and new time card system. Keep saying breaks are time theft even 15 minutes and takes out of our checks. Times are adjusted by 5-10 minutes each clock in and out for time theft.