Antiwork

After working from home for 2 years, my employer (big tech) is making me return to the office while the majority of my team is remote. I'll pretty much be commuting to an empty cubicle. They're saying it has to be either medical or religious for them to make the accommodation at this point. I'm pretty sure that if I lived about 30 minutes further from the office, they wouldn't be making me come in. I know the rest of my team doesn't have 'medical' or 'religious' exemptions. Employees had the opportunity to go through our return to office accommodations process and our medical accommodations process at the beginning of the return to office process. We were consistent in the way we analyzed all requests and made determinations on remote status changes based on the criteria set by the executive team at the time. Our current process is that we…

So, I am in my early twenties and I have a teaching job as a aid in a middle school. I’m in my last year of college and I work in my college town- originally I’m from a small town in out of state. Anyways this new school year several new teachers came to our school, and there’s a lot of ~ diff personalities that I’ve come in contact with. One of these new teachers is a 7th grade educator, with little experience to this position and is super young(not that age matters, we’re just closer in age than most of my coworkers). I work every day in that class with a student with severe needs so I’m in there a bunch. When the school year started we immediately hit it off because they were from my home state, and it was cool that someone else was an out of…

Anyone else seeing their status perma green when in the office but have maybe a 5 minute timer when on a VPN (working remote) before your status is changed to away?

My boss was always good to me, offering financial help when needed, flexibility. Good relationship. Close friends really. Then I was diagnosed with ADHD and before we even have a conversation about that, he tells me my “obsession” with this ADHD is being disruptive. It turned into verbal abuse, shouting, screaming and threats within… 30 seconds? I didn't get a word in until about 15 minutes in, after I had sobbed and begged. Terms used include (butt not limited to) :- “It's not cancer” “Up until a few weeks ago, you were fine and now you're like this?” “SIT DOWN, NO! SIT DOWN NOW! DON'T YOU DARE! NO, DON'T YOU DARE WALK AWAY” – This after denying every explanation and bit of information I could think of about ADHD to try and reframe his shouting. “This self-diagnosed, or whatever it is you got, thing of yours” – This being the…

So I work Monday-Friday 7:30-4 at an insurance company and at a jewelry making shop on weekends and I honestly love both my jobs. However I told my boss at the jewelry store that I’m available weekday evenings after 4:30 so I can get more hours than just every Saturday and Sunday. I checked the schedule for November, I now work Friday evenings and Sunday. That’s it. So I actually got even less hours because after my day job to close is less hours than I’d typically get working a Saturday and now I have every Saturday off… I feel like she really missed my point of I want more hours and more money not just a different day of the week

This just happened as of now. I have been working as a lead in this clothing store for about 3-4 months. I generally do not have any major issues (not trying to brag). The text comes from an unknown phone number and states “Your dumb a** is getting fired”. So far I texted them “Sorry who is this?”, and I have no response. I am hoping that this is a prank or a scam because I am just super afraid right now. I don’t work until Friday, so should I wait until then or should I call my boss tomorrow and ask about this?

My work area hired a new P and VP of operations who had years of experience in the medical device industry, but not relevant experience to what we produced. Over the course of nearly three years morale, productivity, and profitability waned. Policies became black and white with no greyscale to accommodate life and reward systems were phased out. They operated off the “Beatings will continue until morale improves” school of thought. When profits got low enough to where they could not afford the staff we had they cut jobs. The VP had a document named “Culling the herd” that tracked our productivity metrics. Some people found this document in a public folder and brought it up to HR. The guy who found the document got a four day suspension without pay because he was “exploring sensitive files without permission.” The VP was made to apologize to us, and he turned…

Much like the previous company, this one-Invida-made this “opportunity meeting” sound like a one-on-one interview sort of deal, when it was neither. They sent quite a few reminders, and acted just about the same as the last company when someone typed in chat that they hadn’t been made aware that this was not going to be one-on-one. Don’t apply to Invida and don’t give them your business. They attempt to mislead applicants, disrespecting their time. And if you find yourself in a surprise group interview, don’t be afraid to call the interviewer out. Companies need to know that this is not acceptable behavior.