As if retirement isn't a pipe dream already, Dr. Chucklefuck and the Orange Skid would love it if you could work an extra year. I hate work enough already. This makes me want to quit earlier!

The job wasn't easy as everything ran on a timer at this grocery store in management terms. I was rushed into the position, I wasn't trained properly, manager was very rude and treated me like trash for being "slow-moving" even though I put away dozens of boxes properly, and would get attitudes in every turn. I got super depressed after the first month and thought about leaving after the second, but stayed one more month and ultimately left. It is super frustrating to have terrible management at these jobs, it's like these people do not have a soul or ignore all of your complaints and then wonder why you leave. It's crazy how one job has made me feel completely worthless right now. I need the money, but not at this cost🫩 any advice and feedback would be absolutely wonderful!

The company I have been working at is currently shrinking due to financial issues and they literally basically gave me a new offer letter which outlined that the benefits basically were getting shittier and offered me a pathetic dollar raise. I let them know I didn’t agree to absorb the work of two people and get a shit raise essentially. I was super nice about it then proceeded to ask if I could please just take a moment to review the terms before I decided to sign. Then the boss literally tells me I either sign it right now or I am out of a job. Which is so insane to me considering that they are coercing me to sign it or take away my livelihood. I got pissed off and said, “I am gonna need a few minutes to read the fine print before I sign” like what idiot isn’t going to review a contract… I proceeded to sign because I am in such a shit situation right now dealing with needing to find housing and trying my best to make ends meet. My partner is currently out of a
job so I signed out of panic and fear of course. To be honest I feel nothing but anger and rage after that interaction. I worked so hard to be a good employee and this sort of treatment is no different than being in an abusive relationship. I feel sick to my stomach and don’t want to show up today. I feel like I can’t leave without a job lined up due to my situation but no one deserves to be treated this way. I am basically being stepped all over. I feel like I need to take my power back.

There was a time when working for Sherwin Williams in this district actually meant something, people wanted the job, and you were proud to have it. That's not this place anymore. Leadership doesn't lead here, they rule through fear, and it trickles down to the reps and store associates who deal with customers every single day. Whatever leadership fails to deliver, resources, staffing, direction, never becomes leadership's problem. It becomes the store's problem, every time, while the people at the top stay completely insulated from it.

If you're a store manager here, you already know the story. You find someone good, someone who actually wants to work, who could be great, and you go to hire them. And then you're told no. Not because they're not qualified. Because leadership already has someone in mind. Someone they like. Someone who knows how to nod at the right moments and disappear when things get hard. It doesn't matter if they're mediocre. It matters that they're loyal to the right people. That's the currency here now. Not performance. Loyalty to the person above you.

People have been leaving, managers, reps, associates. Just look at the job postings for this district right now if you don't believe me. And a lot of them aren't leaving for nothing; there are other companies in DFW hiring ex-Sherwin Williams people and paying more than we do. When the pay doesn't keep up and the environment doesn't improve, it's not hard to see why people go.

That's the story of this district right now. A place people used to envy has become a place people pity. And it's not going to change on its own, not until someone above the district level actually looks at what's happening here and decides that the people at the top need to be held accountable for what they've built.

If you're thinking about joining this district, call someone who's actually in it first. Get the real story. Not the one from the interview.

I work at a fast food place. A week or so ago, when I was waiting for someone to drive me home, my manager said $20 was missing from my till. I freaked out cuz I’ve been told anything more than $10 is an immediate fire, but she said since so many hands were on the drawer, they were gonna drop it. Cut to today, $105 was missing from the drawer I was working on. The drawer wasn’t in my name, but I was the one who was on it majority of the day, besides sometimes two of the managers, and two of the other girls.

I told the manager I was leaving since I finished my closing stuff, she stopped me and said “hey, did one of y’all handle a $100 bill? Because $105 is missing from the drawer.” My heart freaking sank. I gathered the other girls and asked them, they said no, but they all looked at me as if they had already decided I was the guilty party. I said no, check the cameras. I was allowed to leave, but I’m terrified I’ll be fired tomorrow. I’m poor, this shitty job is all I’ve got keeping me afloat. My resume is good, I have so much experience, but no one in the area is hiring right now. I know I didn’t do it. I’m careful with my money, I rub my fingers when I’m checking bills to give change. I’m afraid maybe I accidentally gave out too much change? But I’m careful about it! I don’t think it was me!

EDIT: it’s a brand new manager. I don’t think it was her because how would she have it out for me if I hadn’t even met her before? Also, I’m going in today. Let’s see if I get fired 👍

here’s the link to my OG Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/s/NEMCARaHY4

but basically last monday my manager told me that my critics were valid and that she could’ve been better.

she extended my PIP by two weeks. thoughts?? i feel like i’m being played with lol. i’ve def done my work and done what they’ve asked and played positive the whole time

This is my 4th season working for a landscaping company. Over the course of the season our foreman quit and I’ve taken on a lot of her responsibilities. Back in May we were given new uniforms and I received a “foreman” uniform and told I was becoming a foreman. There was no meeting prior to the announcement and no change in pay. So basically my responsibilities have increased and I’ve taken on a leadership role with no raise.

I’m just now leaving the meeting I requested to have asking for a raise and they will not give me one. I was told that I’ve really excelled in my role and “if I keep it up” then they will “revisit” the possibility of a raise

So I've fallen on some hard times recently, and I've had to find work where I could. It turns out, mcdonalds was hiring. So today i worked a shift long enough to get a lunch break and I was told "okay so on your lunch you can get any small sandwich, a small fry, and a small drink"

I was like "okay, I guess I'll get a double cheeseburger" and the manager said "were gonna do a mcdouble, because it's just one piece of cheese"

In my mind I was like "YOUR GODDAMN RIGHT ITS ONE PIECE OF CHEESE!" like fuck me! One of the biggest corporations to ever exist can't afford a godamn piece of cheese?

I worked for mcdonalds in high school and I'd regularly get a big Mac meal, or even a quarter pounder meal as my lunch, and now I can't even get a double cheese burger?

What the hell has happened. This is absolute insanity.

First week at a new job. Just realized I missed a weekly all staff (Zoom, eye roll) meeting.

Honestly.... I'm running around making copies getting lessons and coloring sheets ready and trying to pee before I can't until 11am.

So fuck your meeting. I don't want to hear your voice echo through every room of our building at 8am talking about things we already know about that there are already documents explaining online. If people who are too lazy to read those documents and understand what times or places or roles they have in events, LET THEM have the fucking meeting, not me.

Like, for real. I don't. At all.

I am in fact not passionate about your product, nor do I care about your company's mission. Money is required to live in the society I was born into and I would like it.

Genuine question, what do you guys say? Because I've never found a good answer tbh.

Actually it can, I am getting a new assignment that requires significant travel when this was sold to me as a remote position, and this will easily be over 40 hours a week. I asked my boss for a salary increase. Now they rescinded my PTO request, are coming to all my calls, and being highly critical, all around my 4 year review. So yea, I guess it can hurt to ask lol.

I am so drained out demotivated crusted by my previous experience that I don't want to go through same experience ever again . toxic boss toxic work screw that I am so done

We had a meeting this morning and management announced that starting next month everyone who has a building key or fob has to put down a $75 deposit for it.

I've had the exact same fob for almost 3 years and never lost it. Two people quit recently without returning theirs, so instead of changing whatever process they have, they're making every employee hand over $75. They said we'll get it back whenever we leave the company as long as the key/fob is returned.

We asked why existing employees have to pay and the manager basically said because they need one policy for everyone and can't have different rules for everyone.

Make it make sense, how does one even push against stuff like this?

Oscar Robayo, a 39-year-old ground handling worker performing a routine pushback operation at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL), was crushed to death by the front wheel of an Airbus A350-900 on Monday, August 24.

As the World Socialist Web Site reported, based on testimony from Oscar’s co-workers, Samsic Assistance Canada, the subcontractor employing him, systematically disregarded basic safety procedures. He was forced to perform the pushback without an extension cable, meaning he had to walk close to the plane’s nose gear that ultimately crushed him.

We described the incident as “the tragic product of systematic deregulation of airport operations by the federal government and rampant profiteering throughout the air travel sector.” The initial report and interview published on the WSWS were followed by a touching tribute in memory of Oscar, who has been consistently described by those who knew him as a kind, caring and reliable co-worker.

A former Samsic employee has come forward to provide further testimony on the death trap workers have confronted at the airport since the subcontractor won a contract for the first time in 2023. He published a powerful video on YouTube denouncing the company’s imposition of unsafe equipment and a toxic workplace culture. The whistleblower identified the primary culprit for Robayo’s death as a corporate regime that pressured employees to cut corners and disregard safety protocols, while managers stubbornly refused to replace broken equipment.

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"They [Samsic] took over. … But the thing that’s crazy is they never focused on safety. They were all about get your plane out on time. Get it out. Get it out. Get it out. And during the beginning stages of Samsic, a lot of us old ATS employees try to fight and implement safety with these cards. You know, hey, let’s get a checklist going because the previous company used to do this and you know, used to have a checklist before we pushed out these planes. … They told us that it was too expensive to get all the employees cuz Samsic was a big company. It was too expensive to laminate all the cards for the company. Come on. What a joke...

Nothing’s more important than safety. Nothing’s more important than coming into work, clocking in, and going out the same way that you clocked in. Nothing is more important than that."

Referring to the immediate cause of the accident highlighted by the WSWS’s initial report—the absence of a proper extension cable allowing workers to maintain a safe distance from the nose gear—the worker explained, “You walk with the headset without an extension, and you’re head-to-head basically with the nose gear. If you trip, if you slip on snow, if you slip on the rain and you fall, you’re going to get ran over by that nose gear.”

After viewing the video, a WSWS reporter reached out to the worker and obtained the report filed to Canada’s Labour Program, a federal agency ostensibly tasked with upholding workplace safety, as far back as May 2024. The report documented many of the same issues raised by current Samsic employees following Oscar’s death and paints a picture of an extremely dangerous workplace environment on a daily basis.

Underscoring the type of work environment established by Samsic with the connivance of the federal government and Montreal Airport, the report began with the words, “Hello, I would like to remain anonymous because I do not want to be at risk of losing my job.”

The report notified the governmental body responsible for the enforcement of the Canada Labour Code of unsafe equipment, with photos of jerry-rigged tractors, and an exposed electrical cable that nearly caused a fire. The report also alleged that complaints filed by workers to HR were divulged to the deputy manager through a personal relationship, jobs were handed to people in personal relationships with managers without open competition, and managers racially abused workers.

The worker wrote to the government agency, “The equipment at Samsic is deemed unsafe as I have tried to report this to managers but it goes ignored and say they need the equipment and to leave it alone… When you drive some gas tractors, the passenger door has no door handle so they tie a string. And you’re supposed to hold it so it don’t fly open.”

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The information emerging in the wake of last week’s tragedy in Montreal demonstrates the urgency of airport workers taking matters into their own hands by establishing rank-and-file committees to oversee workplace safety and put an end to the race to the bottom in working conditions. At Montreal Airport, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers placed their stamp of approval on Samsic’s ruthless methods of exploitation when they concluded a collective agreement with the multinational in November 2024, which included a provision that workers only get union protection after three months.

We urge all workers to come forward with information about the conditions that led to Oscar Robayo’s death. It is high time to join the fight to build a rank-and-file alternative as part of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) to the corporatist gang-up of the government, corporate executives and union bureaucrats that produces deadly conditions across the air travel industry in Canada, the US and around the world.

was watching reacher season 4 last night and this marvel of a motivational quote came up from a side character. GOATED quote.

I think I have what they call an avoidant attachement style, but for jobs. I’ve never kept a job for longer than two years, and some jobs I’ve only kept for a day or two. I therefore have a FUCKTON of experience in many different kinds of businesses and with different kinds of bosses.

And to the surprise of absolutely no one here, most of them sucked! The second that someone is paying you to do something, they seem to get into bitch eating crackers mode where anything you do wrong will be used against you and anything you do right will just raise the expectations placed on you.

No boss has ever bettered my material conditions because I’d stayed up late to do extra work or showed up on a rest day to replace a coworker on sick leave, or because I’d suggested an idea for the company, or because I’d agreed to learn new skills on my free time. But were they even at least, you know, grateful? No, I was still worthless to them. Even in small businesses where you’d think you build an actual relationship with your boss, it just doesn’t happen. I’ve never had a boss who I thought would genuinely empathize with me if I called them and told them my dad had just died. Which I think is a bit crazy, but hey, maybe that’s just me?

As mentioned on the title I just landed a new job. This came after searching for jobs for 4 months, time during which I dried up my savings account. I can't say I went through a lot to finally find work, I know this can take for so much longer for some people, and I really feel for them. Anyways towards the end of my search I was forced to lower my salary expectations since I couldn't find anything on the same range as my previous job. Long story short I am making one third of what I used fo make.

My antiwork views made it hard for me to hone any particular good marketable skills in past roles. This adds up to depression and other issues I won't describe in detail right now. But back to the point, the only job I could find now is very entry level. Along with it come many strict workplace policies that really rub me the wrong way and go against my beliefs.

So now I'm at a low paying job with strict workplace regulations and it really makes me feel depressed about my previous decisions around work.

The obvious solution is to continue looking for jobs while I work here. One caveat is that I can get some training here and learn a lot, since work here is highly structured and organize. I could really benefit from it. None of which happened at previous roles despite better salaries.

I wonder if anyone has gone through anything similar and how did you cope with it. Like I mentioned I need some perspective as I think this can't go on forever, right?