Author: Olivia

I signed the contract in August, saying I would start on the fourth of September and have a trial period of a month, before my full year contract would begin. I'm still in the internship phase of my education, so this was a blessing, as I'd get reduced pay until I got my diploma! Which would be in January. Now, I worked two weeks, and got the flu. Badly. I got a call from management that they decided not to continue my contract. I asked why, because I got only glowing feedback during my two weeks of work, aside from a piece of practical, easily fixable feedback now and again. The type of feedback of “make sure you mark everything with your initials so we know who did what”. Nothing substantial about my work ethic or my behavior, or my skill. I asked if it was because I was sick…

I resigned from my job recently. It wasn’t under good circumstances. I could write a whole post on that, but in the end, I resigned and had a new role with a different company for more money within a month. Yay me! I was expecting a last check for one week’s pay. Got two. Didn’t think anything of it. I was locked out of the system for viewing paystubs. So I assumed it was accurate and moved on with my life. Silly me. A few days later, I got a “please call me ASAP” call from the HR rep. Turns out they overpaid me. OK, no big deal. I just asked for the amount owed and how to send the amount back. Her response was “Well, most people just send a check…” Ok, but I still need an amount and way to send. And can I also get the paystub…

I just started working as a temp doing customer service for a national organization and the flaws are glaring. I get so frustrated when I can't help the customer directly and management is swamped and supply chains are f*cked and I have no good answers. Most of the time the job's not bad but that 1 phone call can just drain me. Definitely not gonna last long, gotta start looking again.

I’m trying to find a balance. I’ve been the kind of person this subreddit turns an eyebrow up at. I’ve pushed to advance in my field (manufacturing management). I am the guy who pushes those that are desperate to find ways out on Antiwork. Now I’m realizing I have the same dilemma. I make a good wage but want to trade it in for a better work/life balance but I’m struggling making that commitment. I’m currently a senior operations manager in the metals industry. Looking for suggestions that would not take me too low on salary but allow me to see my family more and not worry about work when I’m not there. I’m open to suggestions or questions to further the conversation. Thanks everyone that made it this far through the post.

I’m 27 and have had an assortment of jobs. Predominantly retail and some office jobs. None fitted me except for the retail but it never paid enough. I recently got fired from a job for not being focused enough or taking out the wrong equipment for the job which lead to my termination after 2 weeks. I was more frustrated that it was some what a pattern being fired from a job in a short period of time, seeing a therapist but being on a waitlist for 6 months for a cognitive ADHD test didnt help the situation but I know something is wrong. Often when I am taught something I only retain 40% and the rest is a struggle for me. Supportive workplaces, as what they think they’re doing dont actually help instead become frustrated over ones ability. Its the “come to my office we need to chat”, anxiety…

This subreddit can be really disappointing. The only way to actually be anti-work is to build working class power which involves creating solidarity between co-workers. But almost every time questions about coworkers come up the standard response is to “look out for number one” and that “coworkers aren't friends.” For example https://reddit.com/r/antiwork/s/NxrcfeqrAQ “Don't trust coworkers” is what you should be reading on the career advice subreddit. Just because you're complaining about your job doesn't make it anti-work. A generalized suspicion of colleagues is helpful to you in the short term, but helpful to management in the long term. Edit: Damn speech to text. I'm leaving it because it's funny.

Within skateboarding distance of my house (altho I drive cuz it’s at 5:50am). Zero traffic tho. The job is amazing. It’s not abusive labor like I’m used too, my last job was working as a plumbers helper. The last month or so they were cutting my hours to like 25 or less a week, and when they did use me it was to do shit like dig trenches or pick up fuckin rocks out of a trench. Including part times in my youth, I’ve had 17 or so jobs in the past 6 years. None of them have made me feel like this one. Trained me so indepthly. Been so relaxed. Yeah there’s corporate bullshit but it’s like I’ll fuckin deal with that. The moneys not like incredible but it’s what I’ve been getting, when I finish training it’ll be a dollar more, and there’s a raise schedule+opportunities for further…