Month: July 2023

Been at big company for 4 years. Should've been promoted after 2. Didn't get shit. Didn't really care because work life balance, pay, benefits, wfh, team…all good. Then boss says in annual review I'm doing great he's gonna promote me. Oh btw he has an in office asignment. I say okay but i am moving and cant do it for full 4 months. I do two months, refuse to do last two which would be almost 2hrs each way. He knows this, tells me I have to do it, tells me he can't transfer me to closer office until I interview and get an offer. After his fucking assignment, during which I was harassed and sexually harassed, he says I will not be promoted because I moved. Says to me, ppl in san fran and nyc do 2hr commutes all the time. But I am still expected to perform as…

Been at big company for 4 years. Should've been promoted after 2. Didn't get shit. Didn't really care because work life balance, pay, benefits, wfh, team…all good. Then boss says in annual review I'm doing great he's gonna promote me. Oh btw he has an in office asignment. I say okay but i am moving and cant do it for full 4 months. I do two months, refuse to do last two which would be almost 2hrs each way. He knows this, tells me I have to do it, tells me he can't transfer me to closer office until I interview and get an offer. After his fucking assignment, during which I was harassed and sexually harassed, he says I will not be promoted because I moved. Says to me, ppl in san fran and nyc do 2hr commutes all the time. But I am still expected to perform as…

I work, or worked I guess, for a large retail chain in the states and was ‘fired’ on Saturday with no notice and my day off. I was full time and had been with the company for almost 8 years. I got a new full time job with a different company and was planning to just go part time where I am now, but my store manager HEARD that I was quitting and just straight up fired me when I still had a week left before my new job starts. I told my direct manager and HR and filled out the necessary paperwork and never once did I tell anyone I was quitting. I have a congenital heart condition that requires frequent doctors visits and now I’m without insurance until who knows when all because my manager couldn’t pick up the phone to call me and ask me my plans.

I work for local government as a mechanic. There are 4 of us and we all alternate an on call phone. On the days we work we get an additional hour added and our days off two hours to our time sheet. It's a total 9 hours per guy per month. It's in the employee handbook that every department has someone on call, we're also the ones who work on the all the Police vehicles and all the ambulances for the fire department. He's playing the narrative that we're in a budget crisis when we're not. He just wants to make it look like he can run things cheaper than the last manager who just retired. His plan is for our supervisor to always have the phone and he'll dispatch us when something happens. So he doesn't have to pay us for being on call. He asked everyone what their…

Been lurking here for a bit. Seeing what it is now for those out there in the mid-level beginnings, and around that realm. Amazing what some orgs are doing to you out there. Shameful may be more appropriately descriptive. Nearly a decade ago, I had a certification dangled for 2 years to stay and “fix” things. My boss’s boss left and approved my full cert expense their final day (I wanted to do it the right way so I held out until they finally – in an individual act of defiance) approved the plan to my scope. Their DR (my boss) couldn’t do anything about it, and I chose not to despite suggestions that it “wasn’t in the cards” (but had a big green stamp on it already). A round trip flight, a fancy acronym after my name, and several years later the org that paid no longer exists; absorbed…

Been lurking here for a bit. Seeing what it is now for those out there in the mid-level beginnings, and around that realm. Amazing what some orgs are doing to you out there. Shameful may be more appropriately descriptive. Nearly a decade ago, I had a certification dangled for 2 years to stay and “fix” things. My boss’s boss left and approved my full cert expense their final day (I wanted to do it the right way so I held out until they finally – in an individual act of defiance) approved the plan to my scope. Their DR (my boss) couldn’t do anything about it, and I chose not to despite suggestions that it “wasn’t in the cards” (but had a big green stamp on it already). A round trip flight, a fancy acronym after my name, and several years later the org that paid no longer exists; absorbed…

Hello, dear anti-work thread. I see the stories and and calls from many people here on the thread and I presume/deduct they are from USA. These read as horror stories here in the EU. I live and work in Germany and oh boy it’s not perfect but I am happy mostly. Here is thing, you guys won’t fix anything overnight. What you need to do is to push for legislation and get active in your unions to make those pushes. And it will get pushback from companies because they want to make a buck. See the student debt crisis is there because you run a university to make a profit. The healthcare is crap also because it’s an industry that wants a profit. Your work laws need changes and you need to give up some notions of “financing the poor”. Go and learn, and make steps little by little. Quality…

Hello, dear anti-work thread. I see the stories and and calls from many people here on the thread and I presume/deduct they are from USA. These read as horror stories here in the EU. I live and work in Germany and oh boy it’s not perfect but I am happy mostly. Here is thing, you guys won’t fix anything overnight. What you need to do is to push for legislation and get active in your unions to make those pushes. And it will get pushback from companies because they want to make a buck. See the student debt crisis is there because you run a university to make a profit. The healthcare is crap also because it’s an industry that wants a profit. Your work laws need changes and you need to give up some notions of “financing the poor”. Go and learn, and make steps little by little. Quality…

Hello, dear anti-work thread. I see the stories and and calls from many people here on the thread and I presume/deduct they are from USA. These read as horror stories here in the EU. I live and work in Germany and oh boy it’s not perfect but I am happy mostly. Here is thing, you guys won’t fix anything overnight. What you need to do is to push for legislation and get active in your unions to make those pushes. And it will get pushback from companies because they want to make a buck. See the student debt crisis is there because you run a university to make a profit. The healthcare is crap also because it’s an industry that wants a profit. Your work laws need changes and you need to give up some notions of “financing the poor”. Go and learn, and make steps little by little. Quality…

My dad used to have to work his ass off just so we can have a nice house and do things we love. He would work so much overtime that he would stay 36 hours at a time and still manage to cook dinner and let us enjoy hobbies. The company he works is so goddamn dangerous it's not even funny. Every week he comes home with a new burn and his hearing has degraded over time from the loud machines. He once got half his waist completely burned. No human should have to do all this, to LIVE. Thankfully he is now with someone that he loves and can help pay the bills, taxes, etc. but is still working at that same company (now not having to work overtime and gets paid more). This is why I hate the US