Category: Antiwork

Very fed up with my job and at a stage where there’s no real incentive to stay due to lack of opportunities or relevant areas to grow for my career should I get a promotion in the near future. I’m very tempted to just quit without having a backup job lined up for my own mental health but of course would need to keep some money coming in, have others been in similar spots? I’m thinking of temp or contract work but would like other options too, especially with not being sure about wanting to continue to be another cog in the machine but still needing to make enough money to just afford living these days Thanks for any help and sorry if this is too common of a post!

I have a manager who's a textbook gaslighter. Constantly tells you you should be proactive and take on more stuff and work. I honestly did not have the bandwidth to work last week and on Thursday and Friday I was done and my body could not literally move and all I could do is lie down. The week before last week I overworked myself cuz I had to meet client deadlines. Tomorrow I have to face the manager in the meeting again and my anxiety is kicking in. I don't know what I will say as an update for my work. And this is a thing we are supposed to say what we worked on the previous day every day.

I just need to vent, I've just been turned down for a part time sales associate position at a retail store. I've been applying everywhere to get a second job so I can y'know afford to put some food on my table and maybe have some extra money. I thought I'd ask why, so I could maybe improve myself in my future job interviews.I just been told it's because they're looking for someone with more experience and more flexible hours. I have over 5 years of experience in retail, most of it in manager positions. And now I'm getting told I lack experience for a Part Time basic sales associate position? What more experience do I need??? I'm so discouraged and frustrated.

Sometimes, it feels pointless to demand a livable wage and humane work environments as a disabled person. I cannot work a traditional 40 hour week, I have ongoing and time-consuming doctors appointments, and I often wonder if I “count” as a worker deserving of the kind of support antiwork fights for. The overwhelming suggestion is to apply for disability benefits, but most people don’t realize it takes years and many people who clearly need it don’t qualify for it. Anyone else? How are you dealing with your disabilities and your finances? What jobs have worked for you? What kind of workplace do you need?

Got my first office job at a small start up company a couple of months ago, they knew I hadn’t done it before and promised decent training. There were no other staff members, just me in an office by myself. Instead, I was taught the very basics, nothing more and whenever I asked for help, management just took over and I ended up not learning anything. Boss worked from home most days when they could have been in the office teaching me all the things they said I should be taught to do. Whenever I asked for feedback I was told I was doing “fine”. Boss was due to go on holiday and expected me to run everything by myself while they were gone. Whenever I expressed that I felt unprepared to it was dismissed as a lack of confidence, not knowledge. Of course then when they go on holiday…

i’m a keyholder at a pet store in canada. we have a rewards program that’s pushed EXTREMELY hard by corporate. up until now our manager was pretty chill about it but she suddenly decided that we HAVE to get over 50% sign up rate every day. i’m autistic with social anxiety so it’s really really hard for me to even ask about making an account in the first place, let alone basically harass someone who has already said no (supposed to ask three times). manager said “we can’t take no for an answer.” my sign up rates are bad but im the only reliable keyholder, always on time, never cause problems, almost never call out. and she wants to cut my hours if my sign ups don’t go up. i fucking hate North American retail culture so much. why is is expected to harass and bug customers until they fucking…

I started to work the 9th of may in a pizzería but my boss was a scammer and after working for 2 months I left and start working at an Italian restaurant the 14 of July. The thing is that soon my contract is gonna end in this Italian place so I'm thinking if it's better to combine the two jobs and say like I've been working in the Italian place 5 months so it doesn't look bad that in the two of the places I worked so little. I would like to say that I'm in Copenhagen, I arrive the 1 of may so maybe being new here is acceptable that I worked so little in the two places. What do you think ?

OMFG DIRTY FUCKING CAPITALIST SCUM! THEY ARE MAKING MY BREAKS 10 MINUTES NOW, NEVER IN MY LIFE HAS THAT HAPPENED WITH ANY PROGRAM IVE BEEN IN AND CANADIAN AGENTS GET 15! I AM BEYOND FUCKING LIVID, DIRTY DIRTY FUCKING SCUM!

I have three bosses None of them talk to each other about my work flow. I'm a technician that does work for R&D, production, and industrialization. In Monday meetings when I'm supposed to tell my immediate manager what work I have planned for the week, I simply tell them that I have jobs for the other two managers. So every day I sit at my work computer and watch YT, and shop. Been here for 10 years, and during a normal 40 hour work week I maybe do about 3 hours of actual work. I think that I got into this position because when I was new I took on a lot of work, and other managers exploited that. Then over time I slowly started denying to do jobs for those other managers by saying that the other two managers have me super busy. Now I deny work from all…

I work security at a cannabis company, HR doesn’t want security to form any type of relationships with the other employees at the company, this is NOT in the handbook at all. I have started seeing an employee that is in a different position. Mind you I have seen 4 different pairs of the management team get into relationships with people in their own department. I went and had lunch with them while I was on vacation. Apparently that’s a big no no, even though I have watched my boss come in on his vacation to shoot the shit with someone for hours multiple times. I was thrown off site and have been doing the transport side of security as a punishment. Transport gets no breaks at all and works 12-16 hr days. Both of us are being watched because of our relationship. This last Friday I was on site…