Antiwork

Sooo I'm 21M just moved to Belgium, and I started working at this company they have a bunch of CNC maschines and a bunch of old hydraulic presses. I am supposed to start low and then become one of the main people for the CNC department (to make programs on the computer and make their technical drawings) When I went to sign the contract story, it went like this. “You seem to be a quick learner and you already know a lot so we will send you on 3 courses and then slowly, you will progress upwards. They did send me on those courses and gave me some time to practice by myself, but they don't even want to try it out and now they keep sending me to presses because there is not enough work for CNC and they keep trying to leave me at home because there is…

Ive briefly read on Ponzi and how had stolen investments on his business by promising investors unrealistic returns. I just dont make the connection with how people call certain sales-rep jobs ponzi schemes. For example back in the day I worked at Hansons as a entry level sales rep, even my fellow coworkers would say “oh this is just a big pyramid scheme”. The thing is I never made any investment to the company for the job (had to buy some equipment from local supermarkets but thats about it). Another random example is a make up company a lot of local acquaintances i have on social media sell make up for. Ive seen people criticizing the company as a pyramid scheme because their sales rep get some bonus for bringing new workers to the company, but isnt this a normal practice in almost every business? I’ve worked construction jobs where…

Hi all, I have a tricky situation I’m dealing with and needing some advice. I have a boss that I have worked for for 4 years. I worked as a nanny for them for one year, the rest of my time has been spent as an admin for their small business. Communication and expectations have always been bad- my boss doesn’t communicate well with me and hasn’t set up really any employee infrastructure for me apart from my pay. I’ve been asking him for over a year to please communicate better and asked if we could write up some official employee documentation. This has so far been ignored/brushed off. I recently made a small mistake at work and my boss completely freaked out. He was saying I could lose my job and he could lose his job too because I missed an email. For reference, he has a client that…

Ugh. I hate interviewing. I had a phone interview with a local company. It’s for a low-level admin job. The woman I spoke to was nice, but literally blasted how horrible the other people are in the office. Not just a comment here or there….she destroyed them. It sounds like a shit environment. I withdrew my application and they asked why. So I told them. It’s seems like there is an internal problem and it reeks of unprofessional to rip apart employees to possible future employees. I have had enough of these jobs. Do employers thinks everyone is stupid and we can’t distinguish an abusive office environment?

Just want to vent out that this logic is pure BS. Just got a verbal warning that I had three instances of being late. And when I checked the dates all of them, they were tagged because I punched in exactly on my time of shift. IMO more than a minute is late but within the minute and late by seconds is a joke. I will not be acknowledging any warnings they give me. Is this policy even logical or even legal? The company policy just says that there is no grace period but no specifications of you are late by seconds.

So I'm an assistant general manager for a large fast food chain. I have roughly 40 employees that work under me, and I work 10 hours a day 5 days a week and do not get paid for over time due to being a salary employee. So I've been getting in multiple arguments from a shift lead that is below me due to being just extremely disrespectful due to my age. They cause so much drama with me every day for no reason, and it's extremely stressful due to the fact that I hate drama and just try to have a peaceful day and come home. So today I did a ton of things alone that normally other people do as well as doing all the dishes, taking orders for drive threw and counter plus making food sometimes alone with kinda large orders. I kept the dishes caught up all…

LONG READ: So I saw the tiktok of the Amazon driver basically going off about how his job is excruciating to deal with and how it sucks. I’m here to shed more perspective. I worked as an Amazon delivery driver for 3 months and I can say after working nights in a ihop, nights in a ups and Amazon warehouse, working every single holiday besides Christmas at a country club, 5am start time shifts at FedEx airport facility, Amazon delivery was the worst job I’ve ever had. I’d average 250 stops per day with like 300 packages. Equates to about 10 hours. BUT I’d get a different route every day, sometimes I’d travel 15 miles then start delivering. Wherever you deliver is where you eat lunch. Sometimes I’d drop off in rural areas with little options for restaurants so I’d end up getting gas station food. If you had to…

COVID began, my life changed. Laid off from a job I had for 7 years. Went thru an apprenticeship there. Ever since then I’ve had no problem getting a job, it’s keeping one. Had about 15 jobs since COVID started, holy shit. Fired from about 10 of them….. walked out of the rest. They all say that they thought I would be more. What does that mean? Wtf