Month: September 2023

I have to vent a sec here. I'm 36 at $150,000 USD salary in IT. I'm at about 12 years of experience, spread across a lot of domains (Linux, cloud, Python, etc.), which makes me a nimble “generalist.” I'm good at working on problems quickly, but I'm not a super deep expert in any one particular thing. I feel like I've hit a wall in career growth, and have become so disillusioned, I'm thinking of quitting my job cold turkey and taking a month off to re-evaluate my life. (no financial risk here, spouse also works full time, enough saved, etc.). I started in a large insurance company. Fortune 500 stuff. Some project spends 2 weeks talking about a firewall request, then it takes 3 more weeks to get it implemented. That sort of thing. Early in my career, I didn't know better, but over time (really abbreviated my career…

I was the first of all my family to go to University but on my 3rd year i got sick the last two semester after the limit date for course abandon so i was obligated to pay the money for the courses and i stopped coming to the school both times. I know it's stupid but i was too shy and afraid to go to the doctor so i just continued to be sick, the got depressed and stayed in my room a lot. Since i got sick two times after the limit date i decided to take a year off school and go work a bit. Like a lot of ppl since i dropped out i continued to work. I'm a 26F and i work in a daycare run by the gov, i am a janitor… i'm paid less than janitors in the public schools or public hospitals which…

Hey r/antiwork, I've been dealing with depression, anxiety, and PTSD for over two decades, and things have taken a turn for the worse since I joined a consultancy last November. To make things worse, I’ve an autoimmune disease which makes me feel exhausted easily and which gets triggered by excessive stress. Firstly, the consultancy job I'm in pays well below average, and to make matters worse, the company announced no pay raises or promotions this year. It's demoralizing, to say the least, and the work itself is frustrating and tedious. I've been quiet quitting for the past 6 weeks because my efforts seem to go unnoticed and I’m honestly mentally and emotionally drained. The thought of working for someone else until I'm too old to continue depresses me deeply. I worked for my family's business (a small motel) for a few years, where I had autonomy, could introduce ideas, and…

I worked as a sales/delivery driver for a major food producer. We were what is referred to as D2D or direct delivery from our warehouse to supermarket's shelves. I was paid commission, earing a few cents for each box I put on the the shelf . In order for my bosses to make their bonuses, we would be asked/requited to over deliver; sometimes at the end of a month but always at the end of a quarter. This would mean putting cases in the supermarket's freezer. Yes, we did receive a commission for it. At the close of the quarter, we would be asked by the supermarket to remove the excess product as freezer space is costly and they need it for their own products. We would remove the excess product, credit the supermarkets, and those credits would be deducted from our commissions. In the end, the bosses made their…

Nobody wants to hire! I have 7 years restaurant management experience, an associates degree in business administration, a bachelor's degree in complementary and alternative health with a focus on administration and management of alternative health practices such as chiropractic offices/spas etc. I'm almost done with my masters in human resource management. I'm Serv safe certified in alcohol service and safety. I have experience working from home as a case manager and quality control analyst. I've had my resume revamped several times. Please tell me why I can't even get interviews for jobs that aren't dogs*it? Cross country mortgage, I applied for HR working with payroll on onboarding and I get an interview, I go in for the interview and one of the people who is supposed to be interviewing me went to lunch and the other guy takes me to the back and sits me down next to a woman…

I joined a new company 18 months ago to lead a small team. Six months into my time there, my Director was fired and I agreed to take on their role in addition to my own while they hired a replacement. Since then, they have hired and fired two additional Directors, and a third was hired but never started. I have now been doing the “interim role” for a full year, and have once again been asked to continue in this capacity while they determine next steps. I applied for the Director role myself but was told I don’t have the required experience. This has made it extremely challenging to do my job; in an interim role I don’t have formal authority to make key decisions or establish a long-term strategy, and I do not have a manager who can support me to do so. I am paid well and…

I (M20) worked at a supermarket for 1, then 6 months, full time, 40 hours a week (4 shifts). I can confidently say the last few months of that employment was genuinely the worst point in my life. I spent all my time working, tired and mentally unstable. Long hours and with a controlling, manipulative boss who treated me like a replace bag of flesh used to put items on a shelf. During this time, I frequently thought about offing myself and literally hated my life. I quit the job, and now I'm unemployed doing my 2nd year of university. I am not looking forward to being forced to work and become a little cog in the capitalism and consumerism machine. Now, I get to pursue my interests in anthropology, history, languages, and religious studies at university. Short is: Is there a way for me not to work every day…

I (M20) worked at a supermarket for 1, then 6 months, full time, 40 hours a week (4 shifts). I can confidently say the last few months of that employment was genuinely the worst point in my life. I spent all my time working, tired and mentally unstable. Long hours and with a controlling, manipulative boss who treated me like a replace bag of flesh used to put items on a shelf. During this time, I frequently thought about offing myself and literally hated my life. I quit the job, and now I'm unemployed doing my 2nd year of university. I am not looking forward to being forced to work and become a little cog in the capitalism and consumerism machine. Now, I get to pursue my interests in anthropology, history, languages, and religious studies at university. Short is: Is there a way for me not to work every day…

I (M20) worked at a supermarket for 1, then 6 months, full time, 40 hours a week (4 shifts). I can confidently say the last few months of that employment was genuinely the worst point in my life. I spent all my time working, tired and mentally unstable. Long hours and with a controlling, manipulative boss who treated me like a replace bag of flesh used to put items on a shelf. During this time, I frequently thought about offing myself and literally hated my life. I quit the job, and now I'm unemployed doing my 2nd year of university. I am not looking forward to being forced to work and become a little cog in the capitalism and consumerism machine. Now, I get to pursue my interests in anthropology, history, languages, and religious studies at university. Short is: Is there a way for me not to work every day…

Burner account because I really don't feel like being yelled at. So I come into my shift yesterday early, and the kitchen is a disaster, my station is wrecked, and there is a lot of orders still up. Once I get all those orders cleaned up and the supper rush done, it's about 10:30pm. I am waiting for a side for dish to go up, and the server manager happens to come up to me and ask me why I can't just use the chicken breasts that just came off the grill, to which I reply that it could be a potential health hazard as it hasn't gone through the restraunt mandated number of times. She tries to order me to do this by saying she's closing manager, and I told her that I wasn't really willing to risk potential food poisoning or other issues for the food to go…