Category: Antiwork

Maybe this isn’t Antiwork but I’m a bit shocked. She offered me a position that starts before my jobs end date. I told her sorry this is the only date I can start on because I have promised my other job. I don’t like breaking promises especially since I just got this contract after months and years of nothing. This recruiter just emailed me saying “can’t you just put in a 2 week notice”? First of all there is only an interview and no guarantee of a job. Secondly I told her in advance that I couldn’t start until that last date passed. Never been told so straightforward something like this before.

My last day is VERY likely to be on April 1st with my current job. The company is falling apart, but the owner seems too delusional to see the signs. We have lost tons of frustrated staff (including our VP), lost key clients due to lies from the owner, and mismanagement is killing everything. We have even had multiple, negligent COVID incidents that were completely preventable in an office environment. How do I quit at the end of that work day, so they think it is a prank? Realization shouldn't dawn on anyone until the following Monday morning. I'm beyond tired and frustrated, and I want to make this as fun for me as possible.

even with a month's notice. I told supervisor it's a notice I won't be at work not a request and to do with it as he wants. we aren't short staffed I don't call out and I always come in early and come in when others call out when others call out. I am frustrated I am normally a yes sir type of person. I am told I am to valuable not to have for 2 days but they won't approve a rise. 5 yrs with the company means nothing to them. I guess we will see what happens in a month. Does any one have to deal with this?

After teaching for about 10 years, most of which I was running a minimum of two side jobs with four being my max at one point, I decided to change gears. I found a position in Louisville, KY in tech support. Applied, drove out for an interview, and impressed them enough to pull out a hire in July of 2020. It was a pay increase over teaching, a new home, a new start…everything I wanted. Unfortunately, there was an on-call rotation, which should have been a red flag, but I was just desperate enough for a change not to care. I was learning the ropes fairly quickly, and had been prepping to take the lead on one of our projects – for the record, it was restaurant POS equipment and tech support. We sold, supported, and installed the front- and back-of-house equipment that allowed restaurants to take orders, display menus,…

When I was in my early 20's I worked in a call center for a gas/heating company. I was on the out of hours team, which involved doing nights and weekends. Nights were 6pm-6am. We would receive calls up until about 9m and were allowed to make outbound calls up until 8pm between receiving inbound. After that, we type up reports for supervisors to assess, this was the address of all jobs that couldn't be complete on first visit and what needed to be done. Then we would print out a few hundred letters and have to fold them, place them in envelopes and get them stamped, placed In boxes to be picked up. After about 1am, there was no work to be done, not a single thing. We basically just had to stay awake and answer the phone if there was a heating/ hot water emergency at 3am, which…

I recently quit my job for a better opportunity. It was a small local business, 9 employees. We did hard manual labor outside in all weather. Including 30 below zero. My boss referred to himself as “the king”. He would belittle his guys, call them stupid and so on. You could never accomplish enough in a day. We got our Christmas bonus last year and it was pretty light because the company “didn’t have the money”…his wife bought him a $100,000 piece of equipment for a Christmas gift, because they “needed to lose some money cause they made so much”….this is all stuff the owner told us. And THEN he would BRAG about having so much money to us. While we all live paycheck to paycheck. Can’t believe I did that for 3 years.

I worked in the film business for a number of years back in the late 90's/early aughts. As far as toxic work environments go, depending on the project, the film business can be right up there. Example – having a phone thrown across a production office, narrowly missing the person it was thrown at. One production manager in particular was a complete assbag. He even used the words “I lead by intimidation” to us on several occasions. In any event, he loved yelling at people, especially those of us who were really just starting out. It was irritating, but you took it because that was the cost of having that particular job. Needless to say, he did this more than once to me. Until he did it one too many times. After being yelled at on the phone by him, I had reached my end point. But I wasn't going…

I just got a call from a company and they requested an interview with me. I told them I work M-F until 4 (with the nature of my job, I can’t take off work short notice because I see patients). The lady told me the manager is unable to schedule things after 11am, so we can’t interview. I asked if a video call would work, and she said no. Okay lady, well why would I want to work for a company that won’t accommodate me at all?

Luckily I'm currently in a position where I'm scraping by at my job, if you can call that lucky. I'm trying to find a new job with a higher wage which is proving difficult in and of itself. However while doing so I am getting very frustrated so I've stopped applying when a few things happen. Jobs that don't list pay or salary. There's really no excuse for this. It's a waste of my and the companies time. Jobs that have unnecessary assessments. I'm not going to fill out your 30 question sales survey when I'm applying to be a delivery driver. Jobs that have an obnoxious amount of assessments. I don't have an hour to apply for your position. Unless this is a very high paying job I once again think this is disrespectful to my time. Especially when these questions can be asked in an interview. And everyone's…

I'm looking at job postings today, and came across this beautiful gem (listed under entry-level, no less): ​ Job posting claiming to take the work-life balance very seriously, with team members working 40-45 hour work weeks. Job itself is an entry-level listing looking for “an experienced full-stack software engineer and technical leader”.