Antiwork

I live in Ontario, Canada. Wtf is going on? This place is a wasteland. With this recent news of teachers wanting to strike and the provincial government trying to force them to do otherwise…my question is when do we all just strike? To me that’s a huge violation. I’m not a teacher but I’m tired of showing up to my job where we too are constantly understaffed, underpaid, undertrained, unappreciated and overworked. On top of this, everything is on the rise. Groceries, housing, transportation. Fuck outta here it’s inflation, it’s greed. I can either afford very little at the expense of my mental health or I can afford nothing if I chose to prioritize my well being. My existence is not a business opportunity. My existence is not illegal. Why tf didn’t we get a day off for the Queen’s death? Idgaf about her but you’re telling me I’ve had…

I worked for a small marketing agency from March to October. The position was new; I was the first of an alleged few to pioneer my creative role to expand the company’s horizons. I was lied to by my boss for several months when I inquired about needing help and fulfilling that promise to hire more for my role. I wasn’t just overworked. My client work was 2-3x that of everyone else, but those workers received help given their team-based structure. I did not. Why? Because the additional hires I was promised never came. There was always an excuse as to why they wouldn’t hire for my department. Despite this, they routinely hired for every other creative role. I reached my boiling point during what was supposed to be my quarterly review. In the self-assessment, I laid out my frustrations as kindly as I could. I needed help with my…

Hi All So. I have a friend who went from temp to permanent. She is hourly. They told her, that her check would be short with the change but her next check would have the difference. She gets paid. Check is short again. HR tells her they will not be paying her that check until she leaves the company. They hope she doesn't leave & to look at it this way. She has an extra check whenever she chooses to leave but please don't leave. So basically they're refusing to pay her for Teo weeks of pay til she resigns. She had no immediate plans on leaving the company. This can't be legal. Is it?

What are some things we do that we might not be aware of that makes your life harder while at work. Work sucks enough with intentional assholes and I know several things that pissed me off in CS that others might be unaware of. I'll go first: I worked at a hardware chain. If you take something from the shelves but don't want it please put it back where you got it. If you don't know where it goes, give it to customer service or a cashier. They can give us a cart with the stuff that's supposed to go in our department. It sucks having to trek all the way to another department to return something that you don't have the foggiest idea of where it's supposed to go, especially when you've been on your feet all day.

Hey all, There has been a emergency a month ago, that has left my grandmother unable to care for herself. I notified my boss immediately that I may need to fly home to take care of her for about 2 weeks. I asked if I’m able to take unpaid time off as I don’t have enough PTO saved up. He told me to go through the company website and do a FMLA request, and that unfortunately it’s not be up to him. So I did. The request got denied about 2 weeks ago as she’s not a qualifying family member (spouse, child, parent). Once again I notified him of this, and he suggested I submit a regular leave of absence request. Which I did. I still haven’t heard back. And the day I leave is on Monday. I was going to give a 2 week notice but thats not on…

I've never had ambitions for a career. As far back as I remember when anyone asked what do you wanna be when you grow up I never had an answer. I didn't wanna be anything. Call me lazy, I just dont think there is anything in this world that I would enjoy doing as a job, and there is definetely no job I'd be willing to go to uni for, waste several years and who knows how much money for. After school I had to work though, so I did. I worked as a waiter, then a barista . 7 years I did that, often pulling 16 hour shifts, dealing with incompetend and uncaring managers that subscribed to the philosophy of “No staff member is irriplacable”. I hated every minute of it. One night I was listening to Brandon Sanderson, an author, and he was talking about how he used…