Month: September 2023

Hi people of antiwork! I wanted to share my story and get your thoughts. I've been working with an IT company for the past four years. It's been great, I started as a receptionist and worked my way up to being the most efficient help desk technician, closing well over 300 tickets a month. Both of the owners of the company are religious. I am too, so I was okay with it. Not EVERYONE at the company is religious though. Yesterday, 'Boss B' called me into his office. He told me that my attitude towards one of my managers a prior week was unprofessional, and as part of my improvement plan I had to attend 'religious counseling'. This counseling was to be done through a counselor who works at Boss B's church (where he is also a pastor). The counseling would make me focus more on my relationship with Jesus…

So I'm currently 24 (soon to be 25) and still living at home with my family as moving out is super expensive.For a while now, I've been trying to find a job that doesn't effect my mental health badly. I've worked at many crappy jobs, gardening, were houses, Mcdonald's, pot washing at a kitchen. Basically any job I've managed to get, I've taken as I don't have any qualifications in anything useful. These jobs have paid fairly well, enough to save up money for myself to keep for the future and pay rent at home without draining my savings. But the catch with those jobs are they were terrible with my mental health, horrible managers who were assholes for the sake of it, unfair shifts, never let me take holiday, other staff members who I never got along with, and work that just drained my soul from how lifeless the…

I have to get this one of my chest, because it annoys me so much. I am tutoring kids, while being a student at university, to help me accumulate less debt. Every now and then someone will give me their unwanted opinions about how my prices are to high and why am I not thinking about poor kids, who also need help. Or about how I should do this for the joy of teaching kids for life and not for money. Well I would love to help them, but I can‘t. Because I need to make a living for myself ffs. Would you rather me being homeless or starving, because I taught out of the goodness of my heart? I feel so guilty, but I am also trapped. I need the money to even cover costs for necessities. I can‘t go lower. I am already close to min wage and…

It's payday and I could use a raise.

Firstly, this is a throwaway account. Background: I’m a fresh graduate looking for a job into IT/Tech and got an interview for the role of Infrastructure Engineer. This is in an Asian country so the English has lots of error. Interview: I asked the interviewer what are the main challenges for the role. Interviewer: “iOS has constant patches for security etc. and thousands of users so do you think they can just do it?” Me: confused what she meant by “just do it”. I asked “What do you mean by just do it?” Interviewer: repeated what she said earlier word for word. Me: still confused if she meant deployment? Coding? Planning? Decided to ask: “can you specify what do you mean by just do it?” Interviewer: “This is a very simple question. There’s planning involving who does the coding and timeframe so on.” She started listing all these general project…

Do you guys think they are scammers just like the insurance companies? That they took the hypocratic oath yet if you don't fork out even 100's of thousands of dollars they won't give you the necessary treatment…

I work as an intern in an IT job and we sell softwares. Our primary clients share the same place as us. I have to come at 10:00 but due to my commute schedule, I generally come 2-4 minutes late. The only other bus available arrives at 09:15. And, instead of asking me to leave 2 minutes late or something, they complained to my boss, who asked me to take the bus before. Is there a way out of this? I don’t want to be at work at 09:30.

I recently found myself in a tight spot after breaking my arm, which led to my previous job giving me an ultimatum to quit or be fired. I was written up for having “unexcused absences” yet my doctors notes said otherwise. One more absence would have resulted in me being fired according to their “point system”. Without wanting to sound boastful, I was really the only employee with knowledge about the databases and possessed a strong sense of common sense unlike my coworkers. It’s really pushed me into a deeper hole of depression, adding on to my recovery and not being able to do my day to day routines. I’ve been on the hunt for a new job yet it seems practically impossible to find one. I've explored job opportunities on Indeed, scoured the career pages of neighboring cities, conducted searches on Google Jobs, and even reached out to local…

Each time my boss is asked by another supervisor for my help on a project my boss agrees at first, but then after a week my boss begins to get Antsy about it and started bothering me about when “I will get that project done”. Typically these projects are high priority items that are higher priority to whatever he has for me to work on. If he has a high priority item that comes up it doesn’t seem like he communicates this to the other supervisors…. He also doesn’t give me much work anyways so it’s weird that he’s bothered by me working on other things. Seems like he just wants me to be available for whenever “something happens” and I can tell he has anxiety. Just doesn’t seem like he respects other supervisors high priority items and tries to set deadlines for me for other people’s projects. My coworker…