Category: Antiwork

I work for a large retirement community here in the great state of Florida. If you want to buy a new house with cash here, you’ll meet us. Anyway we don’t have an active supervisor. There are 7 of us and two schedulers on our team. It’s a very wild weird story that I can’t type the whole thing but there are now let’s say 3 veterans left in our department. These vets apparently had a supervisor out of absolute hell. Their supervisor required that she had your username & password for your computer and email because she would check everything. She would require a single person to sort the paper clips, big paper clips and small paper clips for certain documents. If they were wrong she would yell at you. If you had something urgent you would need her permission. (Now we just leave if something urgent is going…

Back in college, I worked for a toasty sub shop. Not a bad gig overall. The crew was a lot of fun and we all worked hard. The owner (not a manager) was actually working the morning shift most days. It was kind of a bummer as he watched the place like a hawk and would take all the daytime deliveries. Well… a freaky fast sub shop opened up across the street. Not to long after, my toasty sub shop was closing it's doors for good. We had maybe a months notice. At this point in my life, I had mostly worked in the food service industry and was able to quickly find a job working at a pizza place down the street. I enjoyed my time there and had really good connections with the whole crew. I agreed to continue to work both jobs until the place shut its…

I'm on 160k at the moment. Had no merit increase in 2021 because of Covid and got a 4% merit increase this year. Manager tried to make it sound good by saying lots of other companies aren't doing well at the moment. I tried to convince my manager that companies have been significantly increasing their base salaries this year in a competition for talent but he wasn't buying it. I said sure, and then decided to respond to some recruiters' messages. Landed a new job for 210k in a week. Fully remote too! Know your worth, folks, even if your manager is constantly gaslighting you.

So, trying to rationalize something. I’m closing a monster deal at my company. Im not on the sales team, but am BD. We have a different comp plan for some reason. I won’t even put the number down because it’s painful, but if I was in sales, I would be getting a commission that’s 250x what I am going to get. The base salary is different, but not that different. Anyone have a justification for this? This is sail into the sunset money vs pay off my debt money.

Received a job offer over a week ago and I am STILL unable to quit my awful job. I’m salary & make thousands of dollars below the fair market salary for a project manager. I work about 60 hours a week for shit pay & have a ton of responsibilities especially since the company fired all the contract workers in December and they have a hiring & salary freeze. We lost half of our team & the turnaround times have not changed. We’re told to “just get it done” with zero support. The company has been stealing my precious time for going on 3 months now and it’s only gonna get worse. So, like the smart person I am, I started job hunting, hard. Had 5 interviews with a kick-ass company that actually cares about their employees, like we get a month off a year on top of sick and…