Antiwork

I work in healthcare and my company gave out 2% raises across the board this year (aka a pay cut since it doesn't keep up with inflation). Everyone was pissed because we're working our asses off but the CEO spent way too much $$ on an unnecessary acquisition. I was livid when they followed up later with an all employee email asking us to donate to our own company. They even added a link to the payroll deduction form….

So I work for a manufacturing company in one of the building's stockroom. Recently, I applied for and was offered a job working in an office position (huzzah!) I was really looking forward to the transition, as it would be a small pay bump and I would have a hybrid schedule (work in office 3 days, work from home 2 days). Here's the problem: The manager of the stockroom is not allowing me to move departments until a replacement is found, for which we have no applicants for yet. Notice how I didn't describe them as my manager. I work second shift, and because of how the company is structured, I actually work under a supervisor that oversees the entire plant, not the manager of the department I work in. My supervisor has made it clear that they will help me leave as soon as I can, and there isn't…

I work for an auto insurance company as a claims adjuster. I’ve been working here for just over a year now and I’m already hitting a hard burnout. I work from home and I know that many have it worse than I do, but I’m really struggling and I don’t know what to do. We deal with unbelievable volume. My department is dealing with an average of about 380-450 claims PER PERSON. These are almost all needing to be called on and worked through with the customer. Due to the volume we are incredibly backlogged. This causes just about every call we get to be an angry customer ready to take it out on whoever answers. I personally have over 400 emails, over 100 voicemails, and lists upon lists of “urgent – do right now” items. This is on top of us each spending 3 hours a day on our…

My 1.5-year contract recently ended at my former workplace. I put in a lot of effort during that time and received positive feedback from my manager. However, they decided not to extend my contract and the possibility of permanent employment was no longer on the table. I'm thinking about whether I should keep my work laptop. What do you think?

I applied to a software developer “apprenticeship” at a local start-up. They emailed me multi-hour initial coding challenge as first-round interview. The apprenticeship lasts 3 months with potential for full time employment. I don’t want to leave my current job to be potentially unemployed after 3 months, so I asked for an estimate on how many apprentices are offered full time employment after their contract completes. They do not have estimates they can share “at this time”. I have approximately 48 hours to complete this challenge. Wondering if I should bother. It seems to be that an apprenticeship is created specially to train / acquire workers. They must have statistics on number of people offered jobs after? Is it a red flag that they refuse to share? Should I do this challenge all night knowing that I have work 8am tomorrow?

Even though ive been working late damn nights lately, some way for them to show their gratitude, i dont even get time and a half plus not very good vacation, and my benefits package only gets me $500 in massages per year (i could use 8 times that)

Retired father has been working as a fill in at a school to occupy his time. A regular job opened up and the principal gave him the position (5 hours a day). Fast forward 3 months. HR caught wind and says the position should have been posted. So he’s out of this job and being offered fill in work. Can/should he file for unemployment?

I work as a Software Developer and I have been working on a project for a consulting company for almost a year. When they made me the offer for the position, they told me that the mode of work was going to be 100% remote. However, the day I went in to pick up my work equipment, I was told that they usually come to the office once a week. In my case, I have been “allowed” to go every two weeks. – I wouldn't even have to go in one day to begin with because when I was hired I was told it was 100% remote-. Also, they propose it as “optional”. But the latter is not entirely true, as they force you to justify why you can't go to the office on the day it's your turn to go. Since I came back from my summer vacation, I…