Category: Antiwork

I'll summarize as best as i can. Recently, our company data was deleted. I believe it was a hack, but that is not confirmed. I am not a part of management, but one of the few non-management people that had access to company data and logs on my computer. We use excel, and randomly one day everything was deleted. We would reset it to the last backup, and then almost instantly it was being deleted again. This went on all night. I explained to the boss I could revert it to the last save (previous day) but everything from the current day was gone. We did this, and then again – it kept being deleted on Microsoft Excel. Other excel sheets on our sharepoint.com were also being randomly deleted. That night, a boss called me to the office around closing time – asking if I had 'X' excel sheet access…

I see a lot of people on here who turn jobs down or quit because the boss acts like a jerk. Well, I've had a couple of jobs in the past where the boss was a real jerk, but I stayed with the job because it paid very well. I just considered, that for the money they were paying me, so what if they want to be jerks. If taking insults is part of the job and what it takes to make a big salary, okay. How do other people feel about this?

In a school within a university I worked for, my manager had instructed our team that the associate dean was recently dissatisfied that we had exceeded expectations on a recent project and gotten upset that the quality of the project was too good for what had been requested. The manager sat down with us and actually had a talk about how real leaders in this school will follow directions from superiors EXACTLY as asked, even if the directions state to only make something less than outstanding. Needless to say, this was a highly toxic job. This was also the same job, prior to me knowing it was toxic, where we were all brought into a meeting and the entire floor was asked to give our “honest” feedback about a slogan the school was considering in its marketing campaign to undergraduate students. The slogan had to do with innovating, and this…

My company just had a huge shakeup and restructuring. A new SVP of my department came in and my boss who I actually had a great relationship with left for a new job. My old boss gave me a lot of freedom and this new one is the exact opposit. For example, we have a new intern on our team and they are shadowing me for a bit this week. Since it's slow right now, I figured it would be a good opportunity to make short-ish meetings with colleagues within the industry I work in to show the intern what people in our field do and what careers could be available. First – new boss wanted to talk about it and asked me to set up a meeting – which to be fair i forgot to do until much later. When I bumped the email with the idea she said…

Hey all, For clarification in this post we will call the previous company “Company A”, the second company “company b” and merged “Company C”. Business is located in Ontario and Unionized. Company A & Company B recently merged to form Company C. Honestly, it’s been more of a take over of Company B coming in and telling all employees of Company A this is the way it is. The business is a utility (call centre based) and right now we’re in the position where we can of disconnect services for customers who have not paid. Previously, Company A has had a lot of issues with irate customers, people threatening to come to the work place and “find” an employee as well as one person threatening to come to the work place and shooting up the office. There has also been multiple lockdowns on site at our former locations. Management from…