Antiwork

Every minute I’m forced to work while tired is violence against my body. I do not have time in my day to continue working for such trite reasons as “my shift isn’t over yet.” My body’s shift is over when it is tired. I am not here to fall asleep at my desk while I have more important things to do, like sleep in my bed.. I am here to earn a living, and I cannot live if I need to sleep. No I will not go to bed earlier. I will not plan my sleep around a job I do not like. You will schedule my work around when I sleep. And if I sleep all day, then you are not entitled to my labor. I am not running a charity and you cannot rent my body for all hours of the day. My work is making you rich…

I. Just. Can’t. I can’t clean up the carnage of a boss who thinks they know what’s going on so they insert themselves and completely fuck things up. How many times do I have to tell you that you are undermining and undercutting me? That you’re pissing off my staff by meddling in things and making more work for me?!? I have a feeling this won’t change. I think I need an exit strategy. But I don’t want to leave a great place because of one idiot. Any advice?!?! Survival skills?

I worked in Sheet Metal. I loved my coworkers and I do enjoy the work but the benefits and the pay is not as much as it should be. However I’m honestly quitting more for the fact that I found a job in the field I want to be in. For working at this job for 8 months I genuinely put my all into it. But just today two of my managers started to really piss me off. They called me a short timer and was being overall condescending. I just came here to vent about toxic work culture and expectations. They already posted a new job for my job and the pay range is higher then how they started me for the first month. I hate to think I left a bad image but at the same time I’m starting to feel better about my decision. I would be…

Just a quick little holiday anecdote: My company decided that this year we can't afford holiday bonuses, party, or gifts of any nature for local branch level employees even though we have record sales this year. They allege that we have just started “turning a profit” and aren't able to put it into holiday expenses, even though I suspect execs & corporate level employees got a nice spiff of sorts. I was asked today if I wanted to participate in the office's white elephant gift exchange, I told them I unfortunately didn't turn a profit last month so i'm not able to afford to participate 🙂 ​ Happy holidays, fuck the greedy corporate overlords.

I am a supervisor in healthcare and we get bonuses for achieving certain goals. When I got my break down for my bonus this month I realized that most of the objectives were things that my nurses and other staff did and I just directed them to do so. I feel like giving them this money or even buying them something will be a slap in their face because it’ll seem I’m just making myself feel better (partially true) but when I talked to my boss about guving them a raise or bonus instead she told me it wouldnt happen. What should I do? Getting this bonus is clearly immoral but it’s technically the company’s fuckup not mine. I’m a leftist trying to leave this position asap anyhow because I’ve been asked to be in charge of people so clearly being fucked over and can’t seem to change it.

Just was told I had to have so many Did Not Meets, Inconsistently Mets, etc to meet a bell curve. Anyone hired this year or recently promoted has to get less than successful for being new to role. It makes no difference what the manager, or even their managers manager thinks, nor does what the employee actually did count at all. The C levels at my company make millions of dollars in bonuses regardless of how well the company performs.

Companies that force or even encourage employees to come in sick should be held financially responsible for every consumer and any other employees that fall ill. They should also get a negative health warning put on their window just like restaurants that have negative health scores to warn all customers for the next 6 months.