Antiwork

I'm sorry if this is the wrong tread for this.. I needed some time off work to travel aboard to tend to my sick father in law I asked for unpaid compassionate leave and my work booked the days off as a holiday without asking me meaning I have no days left for the rest of the year.. And also as the cut off has gone for pay it means I can't do anything I'm in the UK

I've been working since I was probably 8 or 9 because of my dad's business (although I never wanted to) so I was a cashier for his food truck for years before actually being able to apply to a job job. My first one was shitty and it definitely did many illegal things that it shouldn't have done to a 15 year old but that's for another day. I've held around 5 or so jobs almost all being as a cashier or customer associate. I've always been a people pleaser and come to anyone's beck and call when someone needs a fill in at work. But it always made me unhappy considering they would never do the same for me or the rest of the crew would tell me I'd be doing things wrong because they weren't the crew I'd normally work with. I've been at this particular job for…

I’m in California but I don’t want to get into specifics with the company name but it’s the “ biggest employer in the us” anyways. I used the restroom yesterday, being a warehouse there’s usually a wait time since there’s a lot of people in the building (1k+) once I exited, I was taking out my earbuds as I exited the restroom dope and was met by the GM of the building. He asked me do I know how long I was in the restroom I replied with “ not long but im sure you asking me is illegal “ and he said he waited out there for 10 minutes to see who was taking long and had to write my badge down since I was using my earbuds and he couldn’t have me on the floor with them or even in the restroom. Mind you I was taking them…

For context, I’m a journalist that works at an outlet that primarily covers video games, but also film/TV and tech. I started at my job 1.5 years ago, specializing in film/TV. The thing is, my department head specializes in, and only has interest in covering, games when he’s paid good money to oversee all verticals that fall under our area of coverage. The way our team was structured, he and one other person handled games, two people handled tech, but only one person — me — handled film/TV, the most prolific of all the categories. Because of my boss’ unwillingness to touch film/TV coverage, it became quickly apparent that I was the only one on the team who had no one to cover for me if I ever took a vacation without me coming back to a dumpster fire and taking a ton of heat for it. In 1.5 years,…