Author: Olivia

My team of ~40 people received an email late on a Friday stating that we would be required to track all of our time from here out. Each day has 8 hours listed that we need to fill. I work at a tech company in a role that requires lots of meetings, sending detailed emails, reading and reviewing emails and documents for accuracy and “thinking time” to come up with solutions to complex business problems. The company claims this is for productivity so that we can hire better and more efficiently plan. Is this insane, or am I overreacting?

I'm a working class person. I didn't finish high school but eventually got my GED. I've worked mainly construction and factory jobs. I was thinking about just using that ChatBotAI to construct a resume because Ive mainly worked a mix of working for myself and for a company. I'm just tired of making up excuses for taking long periods of time off. My long periods of time off have been related to mental health and substance abuse reasons. I just was wondering if anyone else has tried or has been thinking of doing this. This might not fit the sub but Im just tired of it all. Thank you for all and any input.

Are Antiwork members part of organized religions or do many see inequality/Conditioning lies similar to bosses at jobs? I was not sure if religious deconstruction was a similar trait seen in workers who are seeing all the bull that employers and area of society puts on them. I spent much time reading scholars & archeologists of some major world religions and they have a radically different take on what actually happened compared to what the religion espouses about itself. It definitely had a deep impact in how I look at things and it seems to really line up with the same BS people put on workers to make them live a certain way and to just accept that this is how things are….

I’ve been at my job 4 years now and it has plummeted in the past year. I have a new boss as my original one is retiring and she has no manager experience – the one time I did try to discuss things with her and give her feedback she took it personally and told me she felt like I was attacking her and her perfectly laid out plans. This was later held against me, and I know for a fact that she has stopped me from being promoted due to her feeling towards me which is expressed as “we just can’t lose you at this position, so we aren’t going to let you grow”. On top of this, she has hired a new person that has become her little pet. This coworker gets special treatment and is routinely called out and praised when she lacks the experience or knowledge…

Right now I am pretty free to choose how I do my job. Also I basically come and go as I wish. I am afraid to lose these advantages with a new boss. Any advice?

Long story short, my job has been nothing but red flags & empty promises. In general I feel like an undervalued & disgruntled employee to which they don’t seem to care. I could go on, but i won’t. For those who have been in my position, would you put in your final notice to leave or get fired? I live in a state where you can still collect unemployment after pointing out & I am a welder by trade, not too worried about not finding another job.