Category: Antiwork

I work for a company that is always wondering what people have in their currency container. Anyway, they just raised their minimum wage to $19/hr. I was already making about $20/hr this past year (20x40x52=$41,600). Between the merit and cost of living increase, it was about a 20% raise, or over $8000. So I'm making almost $50k now, which is something I did not expect to reach for another few years unless I got a promotion. I'm posting this not to brag but to remind all of you that the government says inflation is 7% but they are probably lying and it is probably more like 15%, so while my company is much better than so many other corporations, is still just barely keeping up with inflation. My company is regularly considered a great place to work, but in my position I know that despite being a top performer, one…

Today was the yearly Teams meeting that included our whole department, around 200 people. The executive running the entirety of the meeting is breaking down the numbers and bragging about how good the company did this past year, including making 30 billion dollars in revenue, opening new departments, etc. Well if we're doing so well financially as a company, why was the only semblance of a bonus throughout the entire year a 12oz tumbler with the logo on it?

Please be kind, i am having severe debilitating anxiety and i feel so alone without support. I am a high performer that has been placed in impossible situation at work. I have been running a project solo that should never been left for 1 person. My management has failed to support me in every way possible. I have been isolated and gaslit to the point of taking multiple roles and now i am trying to find a way to distance myself and eventually exit. Ive been set up to fail from day one. And even the people i onboarded cost me my time and tried to throw me under the bus to avoid doing work themselves. I am at the point of despair. I dont have many friends. My spouse is supportive but also exhausted. My manager was not supportive when i bring up leave of absence. I just need…

I’m using my phone so my apologies for any formatting errors. I am a young guy (mid 20’s) and work at a brokerage firm where I am relatively successful. I make okay-ish bordering on good money because of how much overtime I put in. I get to my office between 6:30 and 7:00 in the morning and leave my office at 7:30 in the evening so I can catch the 8 o’clock train which gets me home at roughly 8:30. I work 6 days a week because I flat out refuse to work on Saturday, and will put in between 4-6 hours on Sunday from my home office. Yesterday was the first day in MONTHS that I was in track to get home at a decent hour. I almost teared up when I deleted my last email in my inbox because I knew I would be able to catch the…

I had a phone interview set up for today at 3:30pm. It was for a job I was pretty excited about. I rearranged my entire day to be available, woke up early, left work early, skipped lunch so I could get all my work done. The employer never called. My time isn't important to them already

I work at a car dealership of 700 employees, it’s huge. My department is small has 5 people in it including my boss. For the third time in the three and a half months I’ve been working here the Covid status of my coworkers was hidden from me. Only after my coworker was gone for two days on a ‘family emergency’ did I get notified they had Covid. A different coworker finished her work day a desk down from me and said, “alrighty time to quarantine now!” Because her son whom she lives with tested positive that morning and she’s not vaccinated. Today I come into work and my boss isn’t there, not unusual her father is in the hospital and said she might be taking time off. One person said she probably wouldn’t be in for the week. An hour into my shift I ask a coworker if she…

So, I got my start in the film industry and it's gone…weirdly. I've spent my first year mostly as a PA but I've also gotten promoted to a specialist position within the health and safety department and then as a camera operator. Firstly, the abuse health and safety people get because they have to enforce covid restrictions is DISTURBING. Like everyone hates you and bullies you because you're a PA and you're forced to tell actors, producers, and everyone else “beneath” them to keep their masks on and wash their hands. I've already been groped and assaulted as a result. Second, after my second breakdown from all that, and trying to confide in my friend that is a bit higher up than me, I was shamed. She tried to flex to me how she tries to educate people about “liberal truths” but then tells me how im a crazy, conspiracy…

I was hired for a support role this past summer but now they want me to spend 50% of my time as an unofficial solutions architect because “doing support work isn't enough” (translation: we need work done for cheap) Glassdoor average compensation for my company: my current title: 140k (I make 152k) new title: 220k I am already qualified for the new position. They tout it as career growth but I intentionally took several steps backwards in my career for this job so I don't know what growth they think I want. I'm planning to present the following options to my manager: 1) Give the project to someone else (eg, the senior solutions architect they assigned to help me, like wtf?). This is my ideal outcome. 2) Give me a 25% raise. This would be ~40k which I figure is reasonable since I'm meant to spend half of my time…