Category: Antiwork

I work as a software engineer for a multi-billion dollar company. I honestly hate it but it would take a wall of text to explain all the reasons. All the decisions about returning to the office are being made by people (literally) 9 steps above me in the org chart who work in a different city. My boss, his boss, his boss, etc all agree that returning to the office is stupid for our particular responsibilities (sit and code all day and have zoom meetings with teams in other cities) but they have no real authority or even input on the decision making process. For the past six months or so we've had huge problems hiring new people and for the past 3 months we've had huge problems with good people quitting. I told my boss we should just pay people more because of how much better salaries had gotten…

I have been thinking of posting my story for some time now. This happened about 10 years ago. I used to work at a small advertisement company here in my country. One of my coworkers had lost his wife and son in a car accident a few months before. It was beyond tragic, the poor guy was really struggling, as you can imagine. He took some time off to grieve but when he came back his work wasn't up to the company's standards anymore and after a couple of weeks they fired him. He went up to the roof and jumped off our 12 story building. I was outside and actually saw him die. I was 19 years old at the time. A crowd gathered around his body and an ambulance was called to take him away. I don't remember all the details because I was so shocked at what…

I'd rather not feel helpless. I want to know there is a better future ahead. But I don't know what that looks like, and I don't know what I or your average joe can do about it. Someitmes I just feel like we are all fucked and I don't know how to change that

Do I need to mention this was the worst company I ever worked for? And that the owner was always crying poverty and talking about how much money we were costing him, yet he was always taking trips and looking into buying a yacht?

I'm a 18f working at a pretzel stand in a mall . I also earn tips which can be ethier good or complete dog shit . I earn 11 an hour Recently my hours have been cut because 2 workers were fired and the mall hours were cut . What pisses me off is we are charging insane prices for stuff . 3 pretzels and a few drinks for a family can cost sometimes 20 bucks or more . I'm mentally and physically drained from working for the bare minimum to pay for college. My best chance at this rate is quitting my job and finding something where I don't have to count pennies and figure out what bills I should pay or put off .

I posted yesterday about how my toxic boss reprimanded me in front of my coworker (B) for “gossiping”. B had told me some information about our toxic boss that caused me to be concerned she was going to not play by the book when terminating an employee (I'm a HR assistant). I emailed corporate about this before it would get out of hand like it has done in the past. Well our toxic boss called B after work last night to tell her that they “can no longer be friends” and that B was untrustworthy. Now today at work our toxic boss has told B “its not your fault this happened. Its mine for confiding in you”. Super toxic and emotionally manipulative. I reported her for this behavior and so far nothing.

I live about 35-40 minutes away from work. I get off at 2:30 and have a dentist appointment coming up at 3:00. I asked my manager a month ago if I could just not take my 30 minute lunch that day and then leave 30 minutes early. This was approved. Now the day before the app. I asked again to make sure that they remembered that I'd be leaving early, and was told that, even if I didn't take my lunch, I'd still receive points for leaving early. So instead I'm just using a vacation day tomorrow. That way I get 8 hours of pay, get to my app. on time, and not get points. TL:DR “We'll punish you for working seven and a half hours, so instead just don't come in”.

Hello In a few hours I will be going into a meeting and telling my bosses I quit it’s been a very long journey! I do not have a plan however I do have some savings and I had a few interviews this week. Whether or not I get a call back I’m still leaving my job. My family doesn’t want me to but I am not telling them anything. I just trust myself and grateful to have some savings. The money at my job is decent but I’ve been through hell and back here. I’ve had no time to focus on myself and I’ve falling behind on a lot of things in my life due to my crazy work schedule. In this prison, I’m just nervous to go into this meeting I don’t want them to try and pressure me to stay I’m ready to be free I trust…

Just started a new job and they expect me to be fast already. I just want to say “Can't we wait until I'm more experienced to worry about speed?” Speed comes with time! It's so frustrating when they rush you when you're just learning the ropes. I get it, time is money, but let me fucking breathe!