Month: April 2022

I went to law school and most of the jobs in the legal field are a nightmare. One of my dreams was to be a music teacher and so I almost signed up for the bachelor and then I get this crippling anxiety, thinking “Trachers were the first people to get burnout”, “The kids will try to make my life a living hell”. Or I look into giving freelance legal advice and people say “why not, that”s a great Idea”. Then i am reminder how difficult it is to find clients and I already see worst case scenarios of getting one star Google reviews because the law is so complex these days and I don't know how to do it on my own. So i look onto something else and it goes like this. I'm a woman and I'd like to do chores. I mail the course leader and they…

I have serious mental health problems, like constant suicidal and intrusive thoughts and I notice work contributes to this a bit. Always when I’m working in a warehouse, my mind wanders and I’m alone to my thoughts. The Clash’s song “Clampdown” really spoke to me when I heard someone say they’ve been working in this hell for 8 years. Seriously, wasting 8 years of your life in the same warehouse?? In the song, Jones says, “it’s the best years of your life they want to steal”. I’m in my early 20s and am terrified of wasting my good years. I’m not gonna have fun working this shit job and never getting done with school. Is it possible to work less and still make enough to live a happy life, seeing places and people? What I really want to do with my life is sculpt.

What are some (believable) things you’ve told your employer as a reason you’re leaving, if you want to split on good terms but don’t want to tell them that you just don’t want to work there anymore?

I recently started working as delivery for pizza hut. I make $9.00 per hour. How do I tell my boss I'm not comfortable learning every position in the store just because it's slow….. i consider myself efficient self motivating, and a hard worker.. but I want to work hard and do good at my job which includes washing dishes and prep work… I don't want to know how to run the store and be capable of doing so for $9 an hour. Since joining anti work on reddit I'm done being exploited like this… but this boss of mine IS a nice guy …. and before anyone says I'm lazy I poured concrete on a 3 man crew for 6 years.. I know ALL ABOUT tough manual labor

An ex-colleague of mine was in the same position, pay grade and under the same Team Lead. He left on secondment and I thought he would never return. Today, we heard he is coming back soon, but as the Manager of our business unit and hence his previous Team Lead will now be working under him. It is unclear if the Team Lead applied for the manager position as a couple people in leading positions in our BU may have applied. Anyone have any similar stories? What happened in those cases? I can imagine how awkward this might be for the Team Lead if he had applied.

Hey everyone, I have a situation where my employer is adding addendums to my original employee contract and handbook. It seems whenever a new situation comes up that they hadn't thought of before they want to add an addendum. The latest is a non-compete clause. Thoughts? Is this legal and what happens if I don't sign? I am in Canada BTW.

So I left my job cuz I was tired of how unsafe it was and everything. Well at the beginning of the year I had to use all my vacation time cuz I had covid and was not financially prepared to miss that much work. I was supposed to receive my last paycheck today and when nothing was deposited in my account I checked my paystub and they garnished all my wages to pay for the vacation. Is this legal? I'm in GA if that matters.

I've never heard of a company doing this before. Is this even legal? Are my potential employers going to find it odd that I don't have a recent reference for employment? Don't know what to do about it but damn this is frustrating.