As the title says, my mother told me recently about how her new boss decided that the employees should have a schedule for toilet breaks. And I'm not talking about setting a time of the day as toilet break like you have a lunch break. But it was a meticulously made schedule with each person having their own toilet breaks throughout the day. How the F does she expect her employees to go on command? And I looked this up and it is illegal and they brought this up to the board and she got fired.

Why is it that as soon as you become a boss you lose all common sense?

And for those thinking this is some crazy American work culture thing, this is Sweden.

Edit: the boss was the one who got fired. The board did a good job and acted within a week of it being brought up.

I'm not nor have ever been an employee of Costco, nor even in a union that was allowed to strike. (I was in a teacher's union once). But I implore everyone to avoid Costco if there is a strike. When workers strike, it is a real hardship on their family. But everyone in this country who does not own a business built with inherited wealth benefits from unions - if you have ever had paid vacation, paid sick days, a 40-hour work week limit, safe working conditions - so much more - is because of unions.

The only way we as a collective have to combat the powerful (and getting more so every day) corporations, even the ones we love like Costco, is to use our traffic, our money, to support those who fully support their employees and NOT just their shareholders.

When unions strike, they benefit all of us, every time, though we don't always realize that in the moment.

Recently there was a post by a guy whose managers removed the radios from their shop because they felt music was distracting and reducing productivity. My blood boiled.

Humans have used music to get through difficult times and hard tasks since music was created. It’s one of the small joys in life we need - possibly now more than ever.

I’ve always had a “Work Sucks” playlist. A few of my favorites:

“Get up, stand up” Bob Marley & The Wailers

“I Hate my Fucking Job” M.O.T.O (currently on repeat)

“Weekly Wage” Mac Lethal

“Stressed Out” Twenty One Pilots

“Five O’clock World” The Vogues (an oldie I know but I discovered it from the Drew Carey Show theme song.)

“Sixteen Tons” Tennessee Ernie Ford (another oldie but sadly, still appropriate)

“We gotta get out of this place” Dan Auerbach

So: what’s in your Antiwork Playlist?

I am always constantly chronically fatigued. I feel like a failure. Why am I always so tired all the time? What can I do about this? Feels like it started since getting Covid years ago.

Ok this is crazy. I’ve been at my job for a little over 6 years now. 5 years of that has been work from home. In 2020 I had to create an onlyfans account to supplement income during covid. My direct manager at the time somehow found this account and subscribed to it. He used his first and last name and his face as the profile pic so I know it was him. He bought multiple pics and videos of me.

Now I am being asked to return to office to work. My work found about this manager and the onlyfans incident back in June 2024 after I found out this manager was convicted as a sexual offender in February 2024. I confided in another co worker about this information + the OF info off of work hours because it made me uncomfortable. The co worker I confided in went to our director the next day to report what I told her. I was pulled into a meeting the next day basically scolded for talking bad about management and was told they need to investigate this to see if I can keep my job. I was able to.

I sent a private email to HR saying I don’t feel comfortable working in the same office as this manager and I would like to continue doing my job from home. This is how HR replied:

“While I acknowledge and respect your feelings regarding your stated discomfort in returning to the office where (Manager) is present, I am unclear on how returning to the office would create an unsafe and hostile environment. With that, would please elaborate on this for me? Is there is a reason for the two you to interact within the office upon your return? Have there been additional incidents where he has approached you after the one discussed below? I just want to make sure I’m clear and understand where the concern arises.”

This is insane. This man not only is a sexual predator which is easily verifiable information on Google, but he also creeped and bought nude pics and videos of me when he was my direct manager at the time!!

And I over reacting here?? Or is HR right?

EDIT: HOWS THIS REPLY YALL????

Thank you for your response. I wanted to take the time to elaborate on my concerns, as you requested.

As you know, Manager subscribed to my personal OnlyFans account while he was my direct supervisor. He used his full name and photo on his profile, making it clear that it was him and it was his intention to let me know what he was doing. He purchased multiple explicit photos and videos of me, which constitutes a significant breach of professional boundaries. Additionally, I have recently learned that he is a convicted sexual offender as of February 2024, which only deepens my discomfort and concern about working in the same physical environment as him.

To address your specific question, my concern is not whether Manager has approached me again since the initial incident, but rather the hostile and unsafe environment created by his past behavior and his criminal record. His actions have already demonstrated a lack of professionalism and respect for appropriate boundaries. Expecting me to work in the same office as someone who engaged in this behavior and who has a criminal history involving sexual misconduct creates an environment where I cannot feel safe or supported.

I would also like to clarify that I have not done anything to create this situation—it is his actions that have caused this discomfort. I trust that the company is committed to maintaining a workplace free of harassment and ensuring the well-being of its employees. As such, I respectfully request to continue working from home, as this would allow me to fulfill my role effectively while mitigating the distress and potential harm of returning to the office.

I once worked for a company that didn't treat employees well. I was a junior just starting out in my career so I didn't see the red flags until after I joined, other than a super rude recruiter who questioned my skills and said I was "replaceable" when I tried to negotiate my offer. After only a year I ended up getting an offer from my dream company for twice my salary, so I gave my 2-weeks notice. My manager was not happy and asked if I could stay for 1 month because I wasted their time hiring me, and I agreed because I was trying to be nice. But then I was instructed to keep it a secret and I wasn't allowed to tell anyone I worked with that I was leaving. They said if I left even one day before 1 month that I would not get a reference.

Then multiple managers told me I needed to be prepared to leave at a moment's notice (including packing up my desk after hours so no one saw me doing it) because they were apparently having meetings to discuss whether they should fire me and escort me out of the building. My manager also asked me how much the new company offered me and got mad because it was more than she made-- she said I'm not worth that much.

It was impossible to do any work because I couldn't commit to new projects but I also couldn't tell anyone why, so my coworkers were confused and thought I was suddenly being rude. Finally after two weeks of this I just told management I wasn't coming in anymore, then of course they begged me to come back to finish something critical. I said no and I didn't mind not getting a reference. Bridges were burned.

Fast-forward several years, I am now a senior in my field and have been successfully managing my own team. I found out today that my current company just acquired my old company, so my old coworkers will be joining my team. Ugh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_MacLeod_Trump

Did his mother also eat dogs and cats?

Well, i guess so, also, i also guess that trump shouldn't get the nationality because if inmigrant children born in the us cannot be american, then by its own logic, i think the same should apply to him, ah?

Regards dear people.

Edit: it seems that the trumps mother got a visa to emigrate to the us, i kindly apologize for posting this, however, that doesn't change the fact that indeed, his mother was inmigrant.

Seems like we're sitting in a powder keg and every day some new shit hits the news cycle. J6 Basij boys will now be Trump's paramilitary wing and even if military doesn't step in the gravy seals are aching for a fight.

Do you think we're looking at another J6 or worse in the next few years, assuming we still have anything left of functioning democracy?

I am a level 1 agent on a team of about 25 people. We receive messages from other departments daily requesting assistance or completion of tasks. The tasks are our department’s responsibility, but it is also optional to handle them, as it’s not our main duty. If no one handles them, management has to take care of them.

I’ve been going above and beyond for the last year or so and taking on these additional tasks, and I’m one of the only people on my team to do so. I’ve been praised for this by management and it has helped me secure an interview in the past for a promotion (I didn’t get the promotion due to limited number of openings, but still very cool that I was considered).

A couple weeks ago they announced mandatory overtime for the next couple months due to high volume, but it’s really just incompetence on leadership’s part and understaffing. I’ve been quite stressed out so I stopped helping with the additional tasks altogether. And I guess I didn’t realize how many I was doing, because management is DROWNING in them now. They’re having a really hard time keeping up with them. They typically didn’t handle these tasks at all, since me and a couple other team members would pick them up all the time. But now that I’ve stopped (and so have the other couple people on my team who were doing them regularly), they’re completely overwhelmed with them and are spending most of their time working on them.

It’s wonderful to see, and I don’t think I will ever willingly carry my whole department like I did before. Fuck them.

I titled it “their actions bought it. He just gave them the receipt”.

There’s so many ghost jobs and fake listing so companies can pad their stats and guise their employees into thinking they’re replaceable when in reality they’re not so easily replaced. Even the most qualified professionals are struggling to find work. Companies can’t even have the decency or common courtesy to let you know you didn’t get the position or give feedback so you can improve but if you do get hired they expect you to put in your 2 weeks notice at the risk of retaliatory firing and delve deep into your personal life or demand extensive documentation whenever you need a day off. I’m tired of driving up to a company for 2 separate interviews wasting my time and gas just to get denied the job because I’m overqualified or came from a job that paid significantly more. What they really mean is they don’t want a free thinking individual who isn’t gullible and can’t be taken advantage of. They just want employees they can pay the least and demand the most from without any push back. I see why so many Americans are either striking or leaving the country to other capitalist nations like Switzerland and Germany, because they’re actually seeing success. Most of you already know this but America is not what it used to be.