Author: Olivia

So I had a really awesome former manager and assistant manager. I work in apartment maintenance. But, they do exclusively lease ups so recently they left and the new team is killing me. I feel like there's always been a divide between leasing and maintenance but this could not be more true now. We are not in a position where we support eachother and I am currently doing 4 people's worth of work. I do full apartments turns, work orders, grounds, building cleans and snow removal. I was sent to help at another property and I worked really hard to get everything in order before I left. But, they text me almost daily, chastising me like a child for not doing things there when I'm obviously somewhere else. Expectations and an understanding of what is expected has changed but it was spun like I just chose not to do certain…

I was told to post this here. After recently receiving my hundredth “we’re going to mail you a check to buy office supplies” scam email I may have finally snapped.

Half of those who replied asked for a follow up with a cover letter. The rest were not remote based work and were incompatible. This leads me to believe that most jobs won’t even consider you if you don’t submit a cover letter. If they can put out a general “Thanks for applying!” without a custom brown nosing love letter, why shouldn’t I be able to submit my resume? You can see my qualifications. I don’t care about working enough to beg for you to look at them. Maybe the industry is competitive but I am not. I am just trying to make money like a regular person with my skills. I have never, ever held a “real” job for more than a year and have worked for myself in various capacities my whole life. I just need something to do for work because I’m not getting insurance anymore and…

I can’t be the only one who has coworkers that have been in the same position there entire career and act like they hate their job but also stress themselves out with things that are either out of their control or don’t have anything to do with them. Like a coworker was telling me how me and another guy should do something differently because someone at another branch two hours away would have their time taken up slightly longer. I just genuinely don’t understand why people care so much about anything past their assigned responsibilities

They basically just ensured I wasn't going to kill myself in work, before telling me there's nothing else I can do. Pathetic.

Sister has a bs in finance and a masters in public accounting, and the way that public accounting is set up is running her ragged. No one is getting into the field anymore, so they can’t hire others. They keep piling her assignments on, have added a second location and 45 minute commute to her responsibilities, and a $1000 bonus as the only compensation is supposed to make it all OK. She’s looking for an out into some sort of related industry that is reasonable where she wouldn’t have to start at the bottom, but is willing to up and quit to get away from the stress and be free to do some interviews. I thought antiwork might have a lead on how she can reclaim her respect by getting away from this employer without wasting her education and years of training.