Category: Antiwork

Title says all. I am 17 and I am trying to get a new job before college so I can save up. Last job didn’t work out and I’ve been looking for months(its funny people say no one wants to work yet my applications get ignored). I applied to a local gas station chain and immediately got a call back for an interview so I jumped at it. Now before I talk about my interview I want to mention that I have a very rare heart and lung disease, they go hand and hand with eachother and I am the only known case in the world. I am medicated and it keeps my condition in control, it never affected my former job but when I get sick it usually gets very bad to the point of hospitalization, I thankfully don’t get sick often so that is rare. But anyways I…

I'm really, really done. This job is stressful enough. I just found out that they're doubling my caseload to 120 homeless individuals, with a projected 20% to house. I also do recruitment (“outreach”) 3-4 days a week. It's two full jobs, for $19/hour in CA. Lately, my paychecks have been coming a full week late. I also tolerate bullying by my coworker. To add insult to injury, they're waiting until the funds are in the account to re-issue the check. I don't have direct deposit, but at this point, this clearly isn't my liability. It's never happened at any other job, and it's absurd. I have an interview and a few applications lined up. I'll be fine for this month, and I have a few coworkers who will leave me a positive reference. Do I owe them 2 weeks at this point? I'd much rather just walk out.

Working in construction management, not totally sure what this sub is about but was told to bring it here. Got a phone call That things weren’t working out. Small company, 50 employees, 8mil a year in revenue. I proceeded to ask if I was being let go and was told I was, to return the company truck. Haven’t heard from the big boss yet, as he’s on vacation. Hopefully will tomorrow. I messaged today and asked to be called but he didn’t oblige. Not totally sure what to do. I’m in the southeastern US, laws for employees suck here. I’ve been there just short of 6 months, so I don’t qualify for unemployment best I can tell (Alabama). Really not sure what to do; anyone got anything? This is a mid-level job, new position to the company. Now that I’m thinking about it, we haven’t taken on the extra workload…

They said they liked me a lot during the whole process and want to keep a “relationship” (?), but I guess not too much that they wanna hire me. Maybe silly of me to assume I got it just because I passed all previous interviews, but damn. I hate this feeling.

I don't really know what else to say. Every day I go to work, I feel like I've already been stabbed, multiple times, and every day there's just more twisting of the knives. I'm so depressed that it's embarrassing. Sometimes I wish people knew, because maybe they would let me wait out my time until I get transferred. But I know that no one there would care. My boss tells us in individual meetings where we're criticized, that she just wants us to be happy. Then why does she not give a crap when people are wasting away in front of her? I'm starting to doubt my intelligence. Because every day, the person in the position above mine treats me like a baby. And that I'm not even capable of doing anything correctly. Every day I feel like a waste. I used to be smart, and confident in my intelligence…

Just found out I did not get a job so I reached out to get more info as to why. The position was for 50-70K salary with a weighted bonus system. Basically, you had to make 3x more than your getting paid, then you get 15% of rollover profit; plus there was a rolling on-call. Never having a salary myself, I was very confused about this odd system, but also excited to make 10-20k more than I am now. Basically I found out a bunch of info in Round 1, and didn't immediately have questions. In Round 2 I preformed the pony dance quickly, and had lots of time left over for questions. Naturally I asked many, mostly about how the pay works. They made it clear my ability to automate tasks with was very valuable, so one such was “If I write a script and track the time saved…

24 hr shifts, rural EMS. Employer informed us that we are paid $26 CAD/hr for 18 hrs of the shift, with a rate of $14/hr for the remaining 6 hrs, as we typically sleep during that time (but can still get a call.) Seemed reasonable enough to me. Well, after spending an hour breaking down our very complicated paystubs, I found that they are paying us $3.50/hr for 14 hours of our 24 hr shift, with 10 hrs regular rate. Deductions are absolutely unreasonable too. Funny enough, the 12 hr shifts only pay $3 less than the 24 hr shifts. But few stations offer 12hr shifts. Contacted HR, confirmed that this is correct, and promptly found a better, lower stress job in the mountains with a 35% wage increase. Screw em.

So I work in your favorite crappy grocery store. Been there almost 8 years now. Watched it rapidly decline over the past 7 years. One of my coworkers ranted and raved out how terrible all of our new hires were. (Some of them are kind of bad but not the point). So to me and another employee, he started ranting about the business he used to run back in the day and how great it was. He then laid out the real stuff. “Back when I ran that store, if you only got scheduled 40 hours, you thought you were in trouble. We told our employees there wasn't a raise. If you wanted money you work overtime. And we had a great crew because we treated the new hires like shit (his words not mine) until we only got the best that wanted to work. And most of them were…

Thank you to this sub! I quit a job that was killing me to find my happiness. I now have the courage to tell people what I’m looking for and what I can offer them. I just started working for myself and though I’m not up to what I was making yet, I’m so much happier and less stressed. So thank you antiwork for giving me hope that I can find my happiness and that I can accept myself and what I can give instead of feeling guilt for not giving enough to my work.