Category: Antiwork

About three weeks ago a coworker put in her one week notice and since I've done a day or two of training for this position when another coworker had quit but decided to come back my manager had her train me for her last week. I trained for half the day with her and then worked on my old position tasks the other half. One she left it switched to me just doing the new position and old position each for half the day. I've received no more training, was laughed at by my manager when I asked for $20 an hour for the new position even though there's postings for this same job for $26 an hour for experienced people. I know a coworker who was hired at $20 an hour with no experience just a couple months ago. I was given $19.50 so I still took it since…

I plan on quitting my job by the first week of August. A month after I finished radiation therapy for my cancer, my manager told me that I have been supposedly working too fast and missing tasks, even though work recently became slow. I was given 2 weeks to improve before they would officially assign me to the PIP. I took his advice to heart, and was told that I had improved. But then they decided to put me on the PIP, because a coworker told my manager that I was being too “thorough” in my work, and that “by making sure my actions on the project didn't effect anything else on the project”, I wasn't “focusing on the topics at hand” and therefore was not “reliable”. For context, I am a draftsman at a large architecture firm. I feel like that any of my coworkers can easily throw me…

Ok so today and tomorrow are my days off, and I checked my schedule on a whim and saw that this morning it was changed. It’s now saying I have to come into work a shift today, and my manager did not notify me or even mention anything at all about this. I’m not going in because it’s my day off LOL and I even have picture evidence showing the correct schedule, since we get new schedules 2 weeks out. Cannot believe how unprofessional my manager is. ALSO on top of that it says that I am meant to be the manager on duty for the shift and I’m only a sales associate. Shit like this happens all the time at my job but this is like the final straw. If I get in trouble for this I’m leaving without notice lol

I’m absolutely floored right now. I interviewed for a position that would have been a great fit for me. My interview with the hiring manager was AMAZING we clicked so well. I went in for the in person interview with the team. It also went great. I saw the hiring manager walking to the site after my interview and spoke. He asked if I would take a job if offered, I said yes absolutely! I then got an email saying they went with another candidate. The only thing I can think of is the start date which I had pushed out to mid September, but i absolutely would have negotiated it if needed!

I’m working my first office job and it just sucks. I’m updating their ISO9000 documentation even though I have no experience in ISO9000 & I thought I could figure it out but I have little support and it turns out there’s a lot more to it than I thought—that’s on me for figuring that my employer wouldn’t hire someone who didn’t have the credentials, I guess. People are literally always late to any meetings I schedule or they just forget and don’t attend them, and most of the time I have to wait on people to get me information to verify that the documentation is accurate, because aside from having no ISO background I’m also not an engineer. The only upside is that since no one seems to give a shit about this project I get away with doing nothing sometimes, but I don’t even really get to enjoy that…

I was just watching a documentary on a truly awful, abusive boss in hollywood, and my heart is just breaking for the former employees. I've had many bosses and managers in many different work settings and different fields. Some were OK, many very hands-off, some were pathologically bad, and a few actually took seriously the importance of guidance, training, feedback. About 10 years ago I very abruptly left a workplace that was extremely toxic. At the time I had low-enough cost of living that i could take terrible pay for a temp gig in a kind of rehabilitatively re-humanizing minimum wage, chill environment until I found something more livable financially. It was actually very healing. I still have warm memories of that job. Back to the documentary. In a creative field like show biz, there are some people with influence and resources who are able to take people under their…