Category: Antiwork

I am a biology student in my final undergraduate year. I have chosen to study this degree as biology always came naturally to me, so everyone in school advised me to pursue it. Truly, I never enjoyed the subject, but it was very easy. This will be a long post as I need to vent my frustrations. I have experience in very different areas of biology, and I have worked academically and in industry, on placements etc. There was not a single thing I liked about these jobs and the way I see it there is no other kind of work I could do with my degree. The industrial job was office based and I could not even last the full duration, I left halfway through. I could not stand being tied down to the same desk for 8 hours a day with barely anything to do, and being beholden…

While filling out a few job apps today online and I noticed that they are now asking your sexual orientation, and if your trans! Why do they need to know this?

I resigned last week with one month notice had an office liaison harass me then refuse to accept my resignation and to top it off fired me stole work equipment (barred me from returning) and emailed a termination notice the next day. Are now harassing me about the keys to the place and threatening to with hold my pay untill they are returned. Most toxic place I ever worked Master Distributor aka home Leisure Manufacturing if your a die setter or machine operator that place is a death trap someone walked out because he said he doesn't want to die for money. Owners are unhinged they scream at each other more than the staff. They told me they are looking at for me then threatened to with hold my pay in the same sentence. What's wrong with people these days?

I’ve had the chance to work directly with clients from my company directly as a Software Engineer in Pakistan. I have noticed some things. While most clients are relaxed and laid-back, there are few who exhibit toxic behaviour. They have an obsession with working around the clock and expect you to do the same. They don’t respect your personal time and boundaries, often calling at late hours. They even push our managers to be more bossy. They don’t take breaks on weekends make over ambitious commitments to higher ups, putting pressure on us to meet unrealistic deadlines. Its seems that they priortize their goals over everything else, regardless of where their team are located. I have read this type of work culture being common in the US. Is this true?

I work for a large company, they do things all the time like not responding to emails or safety concerns, discouraging management/staff from fraternising with workers, threating people with disciplinary action for minor stuff, deception, gaslighting etc etc We are unionised so have some protection/power. I want to try to utilise that power but would like to know my enemy better. What other types of strategies do companies use to fuck people over?

So last year, 2022, I worked for this company (we'll call it Company A) as a tech writer. It was a six month contract, I went above and beyond expectations–I finished three months early. Rather than pay me out the rest of the contract, as would have been professional and respectful, I was let go so they could save money, right at Christmas, when no one was hiring. I spent the next five months on unemployment, desperately searching for a job when none were available. I then got a new job as a content writer at Company B for quite a bit less money than I was making at Company A, but with the understanding that if I did well after six months I would be made permanent. Well, two months in, Company A comes back and seeks me out for a technical writer role again, this time for two…

I've been at my job for the last two years. Since then I've had a consistent increase in quality and efficiency despite workload picking up to where I'm the only one out of my coworkers who's back up to pre-pandemic levels. I've regularly tried to get performance reviews, new long and short term goals, but I keep getting differed to “this week is busy, we'll chat next week” type bs. I've recieved no increased compensation over this time, and no plans for me in the future. I'm now working somewhere around the range of 25-50% effort but I'm hitting the same levels of productivity. I'm starting to get real bored with the job which is starting to effect me outside of work. How would you approach your boss in a firm way to approach these topics? I'm starting to feel career change is the only option now. I do really…

I am not in the Americas or Europe. I am from a small South Asian country (IYKYK), but that is not immediately relevant to this story. This experience is from 2008, when I was 27 years old. (42M now). This is a bit of a long story, so if you want to read the part about the exit interview itself, I have made the heading for that Bold At age 26, I joined one of the largest Software development companies in my country as an Associate Software Engineer (Entry level job, because the company in which I previously worked closed down without warning. I was happy to get the job for not much of a pay rise, and they provided training for a couple of months, so I thought I would fit in. How wrong I was. The place was a cesspool of toxic behaviour and it was all about…