Month: May 2022

I am 22m. Suffer with near-crippling anxiety most days and PTSD (diagnosed) . I am working full time for a year out for my degree. It's compulsory. After this I don't want to work really, or full time at least. Like a 2 day week. I live in the UK. Is it possible to work very little and still get benefits or something at the same time? I am currently in work right now and feel like I can't cope. I had a panic attack on Monday in front of my flatmates. I struggle everyday. It's not that I am lazy or don't want to do anything, been like this since I was a child. My post history says alot I've worked other places, got bullied, fired, I disassociatss a lot and forgot things.

And neither one of those things will make anything better for working people. For now, to stop literal fascism, we have to stop what has become the mainstream Republican party. And we need to continue to organize, only by force of united will of numbers will you get the “useless” democrats to do anything.

Is it just me or do inept, moronic, bosses talk the MOST about excellence in the work place? The current boss saunters in 2 hours late after we get there, leaves us 2 hours early with no dismissal, ambushes us with unscheduled meetings, and concocts “new” solutions that are worse than what we already do. No WFH except for her. Yet she rants the most about excellence in a stagnant organization

I’ve always been a high achiever. I graduated second in my high school class, but I also had skipped a grade. After college was easy. I went to a temp agency and within a week found a job where I made 32k as an entry level admin assistant , which in todays money is 54,000. At most I worked an hour a day and no one cared. I went to grad school with the hopes of being a professor, I loved school . between me starting and finishing graduate school though there was a huge shift from school hiring tenured track to adjunct professors. I did a couple visiting professor gigs, but i couldn’t find anything full time permanent so i was unemployed or underemployed for awhile. I applied everywhere, even Sonics because I’m a good roller skater, but i kept getting rejections for being “overqualified.” I found the the…

So my workplace has a very bad management system, generally because the grand-boss is an absolute control freak who holds grudges against anyone who doesn't automatically agree with her. She's currently trying to make every bottom level admin (less than £1 above minimum wage) train to be able to work in any department. These are departments with very specific skill sets, doing very different processes that have evolved over many years (mainly with the input of the admins, a lot have been here for years). Everyone is unhappy (to put it mildly) about this, as they now have no settled job. They'll turn up to work one week and be told 'oh, you're working in X department this week, log on'. And then they get told off for not being as productive as possible (imagine being a car mechanic, being given a fish tank to fix, and then being scolded…