Category: Antiwork

After over a year of abuse, 70+ hour work weeks and many sleepless nights due to stress, I have finally set up a meeting with the owners of my firm to put in my notice. It has been 6 months of meetings to express how burnt out I am and how I am at my breaking point, but I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. I have been pumped and excited at the prospect of finally leaving all week… The issue is I can already feel myself crumbling and talking myself out of this decision. I am not good at quitting and letting people down. I have admittedly moved out of town just for an excuse before out of fear of dissapointing my boss. I need some help and motivation.

I moved this year and had sent my boss a message to confirm he knew this and confirm he sent my W-2 to my new address. I’m pretty sure he sent it to my old address and when I asked him about it he just said “I assume you had gotten your mail forwarded this should not be a problem” well dude, obviously the W-2 you sent last month did not get forwarded so resend my fucking W-2??? Any action I can take here? He’s a pretty nice guy but I don’t really feel like asking him again

So I am super anti work and have always been. I will leave a job without finding another when I’m disrespected and now have been doing gig work so I can work my own schedule- until I build something I’m passionate about. My question though is that my partner works an office job and is just absolutely miserable. She’s worked for this company for about 20 years and she’s super depressed and over worked etc but doesn’t know what she’d do if she left. I keep telling her she’ll figure it out and that this job isn’t worth it but she still stays. It’s getting to the point where I really can’t hear about it anymore, or see her this unhappy … but like. What do I do?

Hello all, As most of you, I’m a very vocal anti-corporate advocate with friends and family. This can be a bit awkward since I grew up in a country in which there’s a very strong culture of “just being thankful you have a job”, which results in a lot of company ass-kissing by employees (which makes me sick). Anyway, something that my acquaintances have brought up from time to time is that it’s easy for me to be like that because I’m in computer science and have had great jobs, and great prospects for future employment (which is a fair observation). But I want to tell you today a story of one of my first jobs in high school. I was 17 and working for a big chain of big retail stores. Working conditions were atrocious as per usual for such jobs, but there are two incidents that I remember…