Category: Antiwork

So I (23M) was a long time stalker of this subreddit about 3 years ago while I was working my shitty 9-5 job and I really wanted to find a way out. I tried Dropshipping, Amazon FBA, flipping couches, I had tried almost everything. I finally settled on day trading stocks and options. I started at the perfect time so I knew just enough to capitalize whenever GameStop rolled around and turned my petty 2.5k account into a life changing 30k account. I lived on this money for almost a year while living with my mom and spent little to no money for that entire year while I practiced demo trading so I wouldn’t waste this life changing capital the universe gave me. When I started back trading my live funds again last year, I had eaten away almost 8k in just gas, food, basic living expenses which left me…

Started my job back in January and I have to accumulate leave at a paltry rate of 8 hours (one day) a month. While I've been doing my best to accumulate leave and sick leave by taking just one or two day vacations tied in with weekends, I've seen supervisors taking 2-3 week trips easily. I haven't seen too much of my kids lately either because of part time school and my job. I wish I had enough money so I could give them the quality of life I want to give them, but also not work to the point where I get sick.

For some context, I wrote a post some time explaining that I gave my 30 days notice at my now ex-job. Well today it was my final notice day and got an appointment with HR to sign all the paperwork and whatever. The place has two buildings, one has a warehouse and an upper floor with some fancy cool offices with all the commercial department and HR; the other building is the manufactoring plant and the technical office, where I used to work. Before the meeting, I went to say goodbye to my colleagues at the second building before going to the other one but while I was there, a HR lady came with all the papers and told me that she brought everything and there was no need to to go to the office. Then she told me to go to a quiet place to sign so we don’t…

For context I worked for a auto dealership in their collision center for 13 years. Worked my way up the food chain from detailer to repair technician and that was my ceiling. I was made false promises of extra training and higher job placements that never happened. So I quietly enrolled in my local cc and got accepted into their welding program. I took a week of vacation 3 weeks before student orientation then put in my two week that following Monday. I just finished my first week of classes and found a few uniforms I forgot to turn in. I brought them in after school today and checked the status of my last paycheck. My ex boss told me I'd only be getting paid for one vacation day instead of five because even though my time reset in June I only accumulate 1 vacation day every 2 months. Odd…

Hi everyone, I'm here on behalf of a friend that doesn't do Reddit. I may end up being a bit vague or change up some minor points to keep this somewhat anonymous (sorry in advance for vague pronouns and this novel sized post). Here's the basic background info: they work for a nonprofit that gets most of its funding directly from the city (NYC) to provide select services to a specific community. The NPO has between 100-125 employees. Everyone at the top of the ladder (CEO, CFO, COO, HR, and select directors) are either all closely related (parent/child or siblings) or close family friends. Nepotism at its finest. Also, all of these people work 100% remotely while everyone else works in the office (hybrid or remote work is given to select individuals coy with the CEO regardless of role). The services the city is providing funds for were halted during…

Half my team including the manager got laid off today. I've been joking all day with my friends and former team members but it will probably hit me later. Funny thing is that I could of left for another job but I didn't want to add more work load to my team. Is this why selfish people are more successful? Anyway just been laying on the couch with negative thoughts….

If you can avoid working for Ralph of the Mirror Lounge Collective or the Black Misfits Society do so. He does events, and hires on event planning and logistics around it.  He hired me and some others to do an event for him called The Viola Awards in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Ralph often got back to people after 2 weeks; this was standard for him, and so was generally wasting people's time. For example, he'd say “let's have a meeting tomorrow” and have you waiting all day for him. No text, no heads up, and no apology for wasting an entire 12+ hrs of time waiting around for him. Night would come, and he would make up an obvious lie of an all-day meeting and be unapologetic about his careless unprofessionalism of wasting your entire day and some of your night too. He did this to me twice, and he did…

I’m about to be laid off from my current position for reasons outside of my control, so I’ve been interviewing for other positions. I have over 23 years’ experience in my industry and was talking to a company and they said part of their package was 2 weeks of vaca for the first 3 years. I tried to negotiate for 3 weeks off the bat. I said, listen, you’re targeting a senior resource for this role and I’m earning over 5 weeks at my current role. Unless you can offer at LEAST 3 weeks, imma keep looking. He understood and said he would take it to the CEO but didn’t think it would get anywhere. I’ll be damned if he didn’t come back and say he was able to convince the CEO to change everyone’s starting vaca to 3 weeks moving forward. It’s the small victories.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/15s65ch/comment/jwfgiq0/?context=3 I knocked the PIP out of the water but the today was my last day and after I completed morning duties, pulled into the office and was handed pink slip with a severance package but there is a clause of if I was sign I would waive the right to file a EEOC claim for the pregnancy, an NDA to not speak about my employment there AND there is a ten day period to agree with today being counted as day 1. It is ironically labor day weekend and because of the holiday, it really only 2 days to read over and negotiate. Oh and they can withhold my last paycheck. But I can claim unemployment so there is that. I feel oddly calm, no more daily panic attacks. My blood pressure is down and I got to have a lunch longer than 30 mins. I'll probably sign for…