Author: Olivia

Long post, TL;DR at the bottom. I worked for a company for over 6 years that worked me to the bone. I was a senior software developer and team lead, and by team lead, I mean my manager made me act like the team's boss and do his dirty work. My team consisted mainly of junior developers who required my help 75% of the time. There were many times I worked over 50 hours a week, sometimes up to 70-80. My mental health was the worst it had ever been. I used to drive to work and think “a car wreck would be terrible, but maybe I'd get a mental break from work for a few days.” My anger and frustrating were greatly caused by my salary. It became apparent early on during my time there that new hires were making more than me. The final straw was in 2019…

I’m so tired. I’ve been unemployed for three years. I had to quit my corporate job in management due to some mental health issues in 2018. Sold my house just to get the time off I needed and moved to a new state for a fresh start. I’ve put in over 450 applications at every place I could even fathom working and have only gone on 5 interviews and still I don’t have a job. My boyfriend supports me while we live in his moms basement and I drive doordash for extras. The worst part is the day in and day out rejection. I see people on here everyday saying they quit for pay raises and I’m so god damn jealous I’ve cried a few times. I’m smart and hard working and put in 12 years, half of them in management and now I have nothing. I’ll work for 12…

Let me give some context first. I was hired as a shop manager for a local gas station/auto repair shop. It started me out at $13 an hour because I was fresh and just stepping in, but it would increase as I was told. Well every year we get a 1–2% raise and I got a dollar raise after a month of being there. So up until Friday I was making $15 an hour running the whole place, managing inventory, answering phone calls, keeping a schedule, operating full service, helping with repairs in the shop as needed, and running the whole facility whenever the owner wasn’t there (most of the time, a lot or all of these coincide at once). Well all of us in the shop started noticing that none of us were really making a whole lot of money for all of the work we did and for…

Bonjour à vous les antiwork Short message to say 'Thanks r/antiwork'. My family moved to a new location southwest of France 1 year ago, so wife can study. I (39M) have accepted the first opportunity with a pay of 40k€/y, lower than average for senior engineer here. It is ok as I can take care of kids before and after school. Today wife is soon too be graduated. I look for new job, received offers at 60k€/y and give legal 1 month notice. My manager requests that I arrive everyday 1.5h before my usual time to prepare for my departure, because of the work distribution in the department. Reading your stories here, even if mine is more comfortable than others, I can set my boundary by saying “No, thank you” and continue to bring my kids to school everyday. Merci antiwork

TL/DR: I left the military and entered the management world and was sickened by the management culture. My health deteriorated to the point I had to quit. Caveat this was a few years ago during the height of the pandemic. I served in the military for years did the NCO track left with plenty of awards and paid to have my resume put together well. Got hired for a large national corporation, this is one that is everywhere. I worked in one of thier Distribution centers as a manager. It was there I got to learn how bad it really is for workers in the Civilian world. Between Time on Task sliding pay scales, anti union training and performance tracking/repremanding, mandatory overtime for all, and trying to keep employees under stressful conditions. It was a huge strain to try to help my team. What made it worse though was the…

I figured they’d start filtering them back in once the heat died down. Sure enough.

Throw-away account for obvious reasons, signed an NDA with a very large cooperation, the entire company is honestly amazing, until I met her. A woman who is overly confident in herself, unable to handle conflict if its not over text, the one who uses “per my last email” or “as I have said before” to respond to any questions- even if the topic has never been brought up before. I began my current role two years ago, and was hired in with what seemed to be a normal group of co-workers. The current manager was on vacation and never returned. In their place – Vat became the manager. Vat was friendly, until a political view was addressed. I did not have a single clue about politicians in the area and who supported what. I was attempting to make small talk, a conversation. Apparently, I made the wrong comment about a…

I work at a warehouse style store, just not a “club” one. I got hired in March of 2020 and am approaching my 2 years with them. I enjoy the job after it being a huge switch from being in the service industry for 15 years. I enjoy the benefits and the pto and all the stuff I had no access to in my previous jobs. I've received 2 promotions in under a year. Im a hard worker. My issue is this: I feel that I am being taken advantage of due to me being a male. The position I'm in means I am accessible to handle many different positions throughout the warehouse. If im needed to assist somewhere, then I get sent. Last year all of us assistants were told we would be rotated out to assist with pushing carts. That turned into only two of us. Myself and…