Antiwork

Has anyone every walked out on a professional job without notice?

So the place where I work makes me park in another restaurant parking spot, is that even allowed or legal? Would I be in fault for doing that and have to pay any tickets for it?

I work in a supermarket and the chicken oven (hours after it’s been shut off) wreaks of gas. We’ve noticed it for a while now, and so we keep the overhead fans on, but it’s been pretty mild. We brought it to management’s attention, and they took a little whiff for 1 second and said “that’s nothing, just don’t smoke back there haha” and carried on. Tonight, however, in spite of leaving the fans on, it wreaked so much we could smell it all over the place. The manager comes over and legit goes “I don’t smell anything” – in spite of several of us (everyone else over there) being like overwhelmed by the scent of it. She calls the manager (the one who made the “don’t smoke back there” comment about a week ago when it wasn’t nearly as bad) and he goes “yeah I smelled it the other…

For about seven years after college, I worked for a company that was active in the agricultural irrigation engineering sphere, and I had a “white-collar” job in a research lab. The company was a startup, and so I made only about $42k/yr, but I was really passionate about the company mission, and the position itself afforded me a ton of PTO and schedule flexibility; I also built a lot of great management experience, and expertise regarding designing experiments and supervising a research team in a corporate setting. In my white-collar job (again, paid ~42k), I was expected to self-supervise, manage a remote research office as the most senior onsite employee, and I had a corporate credit card that I was trusted to use for everything from purchasing new experimental components to airline tickets for business trips. My boss was super supportive, but hands-off regarding day-to-day business, and really just made…

I've debated writing this for a while. Using a throw away account. I work in a union shop. The stuff that I read about on this sub blow my mind because they simply cannot happen where I work. For example: When someone outside of your daily department calls you, for any reason, the first question they ask (after, hey, good Morning) is, “Are you working today?” If the answer is no, then, corporate culture is to apoligize for bothering someone and hang up. Period. If they're not working, then, by definition, they can't be bothered. They don't exist. (and this is if someone answers their work cell phone, most don't. If they do, they're subject to call out rules, see below). If you need to take a day off, then you simply let someone know, preferably before your shift starts. Since there's no repercussions to this, and no-one has any…

Today a coworker was told that they can't take unpaid leave and they can only take time off if the have vacation time. This doesn't seem right…

For context: we don’t get breaks, employees don’t get payed enough, we sell customers used/returned items for original price without telling them, and they have a literal team that watches employees in real time over cameras…not to mention how the owners treat women

about two months ago i started a new job with a great company doing something that really piqued my interest. things were going great. i just graduated college in may and struggled all summer to find work. i was extremely grateful for the position i was offered and accepted without hesitation. the pay was great and my role was fully remote, i felt like i was living the post-grad life of my dreams. that being said, i have been surrounded by job insecurity my whole life and could never shake the feeling that my job could be taken from me at any moment. my friends and family would say “they won’t just fire you out of nowhere, if something is seriously wrong they will have a talk with you first.” i tried my best to repress that fear, telling myself i was thinking irrationally since the vast majority of feedback…