Author: Olivia

Weak spine in the metaphorical sense, physically I’m “fine.” I am also at my wit’s end, and am compulsive about doing certain things because in some cases (SOME!) I am truly the only person who can or will do x task. I am tired and I want to start acting my wage. What are your tips? How do you maintain the appearance of productivity in an in-office job while never doing a single thing more than you’re compensated for? I have spent countless hours on this sub, and I really would love to see a comprehensive list of “how to do exactly what you’re paid for and nothing else?”

If you grinded, busted your ass, studied, gave it your absolute all, showed discipline, and really “worked hard”, until like the medical profession or law, or business. If you fell in love with the girl of your dreams, live in a house, own a cute dog, have a fancy car, and feel important doesn't that make it undoubtedly hard to not look down on the poor or the lower middle class ? What does everyone think about this? Isn't this the problem? This comes from someone who was born of priviledge and has family members like this.

That’s it. My wife and I have had enough. We (mid 30’s) finally came to the realization that we won’t be able to retire anyways so we may as well work jobs that won’t kill us mentally or physically, just in the hope to be able to retire when we can’t enjoy it. She started her own bakery out of the house with her as the only staff member and I’m working (sort of. I love it) at one job seasonally with the rest of the year being self improvement, creativity and sometimes work. It’s finally something that will allow a lot of time with family, is flexible and pays enough to get by. We’ve gone through a lot of the options: high paid and stressed, low paid and exhausted (and sore), berated by customers, managers and owners. The path we’re on now seems to the best. So what if…

They expect so much of me, they asked me what equipment I owe them, to write a job listing describing my job along with my duties, availability for an exit interview. And they want me to do a sheet up to hand off to the next person cuz apparently they don't even know what I'm doing. Why is even quitting at this place annoying as fuck?

Anyone else? I know this won’t happen for a good 20 years. But I can’t wait to see how office culture and work culture in general changes. I see tik toks of generation Z essentially stating that they are only looking to work the hours they need in order to get stuff done, (but for the same amount of pay), mental health days, etc. Now, I know it could take a while. But it makes me hopeful that people are catching on to this “work yourself to death” mentality being completely out of style. I will never work an abusive job. I would quite literally rather be homeless. I absolutely love listening to boomers complain about the following generations being lazy, unorganized, etc. it ignites something inside of me. This is more of a satire-ish post. Obviously I’m not expecting them to change everything. But very interesting to think what…

This really is just a rant. My bosses, also the owners of the company, didn’t give me the decency of a face to face meeting so I had to resign via email which I really didn’t want to do. They then told me who I would start training but gave me no direction other than “teach her everything”. In the last 7 days, that “direction” was the only thing that was said to me. Now it’s Wednesday afternoon and they are sending me email after email about things they need me to do. There’s literally no one else in this company that can do my job. I’ve done everything I can to set whoever comes in next up for success but honestly, I’m struggling to make it until Friday. AITA if I just stop preparing stuff? At this point I really don’t care anymore, especially when they couldn’t make the…