Month: August 2023

After i quit my previous job, i just couldn't mentally endure having a job anymore. I'm 29 now and for all my adult life i have not been able to work due to severe depression and social anxiety, i had several diagnoses and treatment attempts during the last decade, all pretty much unsuccesful until now. In all this time i basically relied on my family and the savings my Grandma had for me. 6 years ago i met my wife, we married a year later and she moved to my country to work here, we moved in together as well. I've been a stay at home husband ever since. She doesn't mind that i don't work, i take care of our cats and the household. She's very understanding and supports me, which i really appreciate. But i can't help feeling guilty that i'm not contributing and we've always been a…

The new manager taking over is a notorious micromanager. You tell him what you are doing, he'll need to verify it, always acting like you are lying. HR doesn't care, this guy has been in the company for 10 years, I take it as accepted culture. I wrote HR over it, and they haven't even responded in 3 days. The problem is the job market where I live is SLIM. And I worked so hard to be in this position, I hate having a new manager scare me away from the job.

I work in a technical staff office role. There is aa guy works on the shop floor who seems to have no regard for the quantity and tone of his emails. He doesn't work for me and I do not work for him. Yet he thinks nothing of trying to allocate work to people via email. This is bad enough, but I can handle that. What really pisses me off is the quantity. In an 8 hour shift yesterday, I was copied in on 24 emails. Absolutely ridiculous. Anyone come across this before, and how did you deal with it?

i’ve worked a bunch of shifts plus covered a few, over the weekend and my restaurant has me on the schedule to work until closed today. i can’t work closed because i have a college class at 8 in the morning the next day. how do i call out with a good sounding excuse? i’m thinking i’ll go with migraine

Sitting here eating breakfast in a hotel. Working out of town. The two men sitting behind me are some sort of higher up management team that travels. All they’re talking about is how much they hate their store employees and wish they were like the older generations who would just do whatever they told them to. Oh, and they also keep saying how the younger workers aren’t easy to “manipulate”. So just remember. They hate you. You are a burden to them. They are forced to put up with us employees. Screw these guys. No wonder nobody wants to work anymore.

I worked for a woman who turned me into her assistant. She knew I needed the money, and she abused that (I did her paperwork for her (she had “migraines!”) ; I answered emails (she didn't know the answers), etc… ) I became resentful and struggled with leaving. Last week, she was abruptly fired. I've now been asked to take her position. I'm coming to terms with how I would do things better. My first thought is that golden rule/kharma… That being said… EFF HER!

Greetings, my fellow comrades in the r/antiwork community, I come before you today with a story that not only reaffirmed my dedication to the antiwork philosophy but also highlighted the deeply flawed nature of the traditional work environment. Picture this: a gloomy Monday morning, the air thick with the aura of impending dread as I stepped into my office, a place that had slowly but surely become a symbol of my diminishing enthusiasm. Little did I know, this day would serve as a stark reminder of why we challenge the conventions of the modern work culture. As I diligently worked on a project that I had poured my heart into, my boss—let's call him Mr. Tyrant—sauntered into my workspace. With an air of superiority that seemed to radiate from every pore, he proceeded to dismantle my work in front of my colleagues, not hesitating to belittle my efforts with a…

As the title says, i finally had wifi access to apply to Sheetz from my laptop, their application process is rather cumbersome to say the least. Not only do they make us fill out the application, but they also force us to take a non optional Personality test (not the first company i’ve applied for that’s done this), but they also require “additional screening” to all be done online. Something to do with “ Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)”. I’m going to be real pissed if they don’t hire me after taking up so much of my time with these things. Especially the latter two. They claim that it doesn’t effect their decision to hire one, but i highly doubt that’s truthful, with the fact that the last place that forced a personality test didn’t hire me, i can say with some confidence in fact that they won’t hire me…