Antiwork

I've worked for a company (IT related) for nearly 8 years and I am an operational supervisor. For the past three years, this has been a fully remote position. They are now insisting that all the supervisors now MUST work from the office full time again. This represents for me about 8 hours of travel time each week added to the time they expect me to provide. I advised them (across two meetings, including my boss, boss's boss, and HR) that I would not be willing to do this as stated. I explained why – they did not mention discussion of compensation increases for the increased time expected of me. They were not offering compensation for gas or wear to my vehicle. My current level of compensation reflects the condition of my employment for the past three years – a remote position that did not require travel. They can request…

I’ve recently found more and more that a part of me wishes something bad would happen to me before work so I don’t have to come in. Maybe a sign to quit my job. Was wondering if this was normal for people who recently have started deeply disliking their jobs.

This post was inspired by a previous comment I made. I just want to vent about my old job. I worked in an Elder Law firm as a legal secretary then as a paralegal. The firm was small. In office, just myself, an office manager, and an attorney. The office manager had dated and lived with the attorney (we'll call him Steve). Steve was… odd. He was a classic Narc. Charming as hell to his clients and abusive as fuck to his staff. Especially me. He yelled a lot. Typical abusive language. We also had a shared server, on which he stored multiple suicide notes, which I stumbled across by accident. His note to me was just instructions to distribute his other notes. He kept a gun in the office and meant to do it there on Thanksgiving, so I would have been the one to find his body. I…

I have all the equipment to do my same job, but paid more with less manual labor and getting paid more (3 hours on my own would be 11.5 hours with them). Now the dilemma- as someone who is new to any sort of free lance I don’t have many testimonials since slowly starting to freelance. I have 14 testimonials that include my name but not the company I worked for in it from when I was fulltime. Am I allowed to use these testimonials? Can they take any legal action again me for using them? I am not trying to get unemployment but they are keeping me in a grey space saying that I am not employed by them but they will call me as needed & I was never terminated. I haven’t worked in almost 3 months. They already know that I am going to start free lancing…

Do they have to pay me for that?

So to give a little preface I work at a small Full Service gas station in a Boomer-populated ritzy area. Only such station around and our main customer base reflects that crowd. Two people run the store per shift, a cashier and a pumper. It can get quite cold outside with this Northern weather, reaching sub zero temperatures for $11 an hour. We are allowed to accept tips, under the table. When I first started I thought it was awesome and asked to pump more often. I was told by my Manager that I couldn't do that when I started because it'd be unfair to the others. Cool, no problem. But as time went on I started to see through it all and the tips slowly faded away. I have dogshit luck with them anymore, and barely make 20 bucks a day regardless of holidays or weather. Without trying to…