Antiwork

So I’ve read a few posts here recently about being asked to gift up to a boss or manager for the holidays. We work for commissions at my job, and I got an email from my manager asking to kick in for a gift for our regional manager. I was actually kind of surprised since it’s been very slow at work and we are not making a lot of money, I actually had to go to the food bank last week. I can’t get my grandkids anything for Christmas. Commission varies, for those who know, Times are extra hard right now. I like my boss and I like her boss, so honestly if I could kick in I would because I genuinely like them, but they know we are all struggling and we never get bonuses or Christmas gifts, so it’s a total gift up. I think I’ll tell the…

So, the employees of our organization received an email this morning from the new CEO stating ‘workforce updates’. The three paragraph email mentioned due to the undermining efforts of a previously fired employee of a department who sabotaged many of our clients paid Ad campaigns and budgets as well as ongoing financial issues within the organization were two main factors in this ‘difficult decision’. They are ‘restructuring’ the company. The email said today (Thursday the 15th) will be the last day for the staff and they scheduled individual one on one meetings with everyone let go. I feel like shit and was not expecting this at all. I recently received a promotion with a new role and responsibilities and they had me work on building a new department for the company. All this work, time, and empty promises is a hit to my ego and pride. How shitty is it…

You don’t deserve $20/hr minimum wage for anything if you come to work higher than snoop dogg on the space station and 45 minutes late.

What is optouttoday.com? I saw an email at work, and it was talking about leaving your Union. I became instantly suspicious, who owns and funds them? Is there a hidden agenda behind them?