Category: Antiwork

I’m feeling sick… I just asked my boss for a raise (with all the expected arguments) and his answer was: “You know?, as I realized in my time (boss is 60something), money is not everything. There was a point where I decided myself not to pursue more money, because I saw I had enough to live and to provide sustenance to my family. You should do the same” I mean…what the actual F is that for an answer? ‍Thank you for listening/reading/whatever

Hello. I’m a veterinary technician and this is my second clinic in 6 months. I was at a previous clinic for two years which I loved and thrived in. I moved cities which is why I left. However I’ve had a lot of bad luck in finding another clinic where I feel comfortable. This clinic has the schedule out for two months in advance. I’ve only been there three months but I’m crying after work everyday. I hate my job and simply am not clicking with the team. I am actively searching for another job outside of Vetmed now. Once I get one I will put in my two weeks. However I’m scared because the schedule is out for two months and my coworkers already don’t like me. Am I the asshole for putting in two weeks notice when they have to move the schedule around for the next two…

I get so nervous and guilty when quoting a job…. How am I supposed to actually do it…

I've worked in my industry for a long time, and have a particular skill set. Current job has lots of opportunities for people to cross train except for me. I'm a “SME (Subject Material Expert)” they call it, so I've been stuck in the same role, and I'm the only person at my level stuck like this. Multiple people have told me I would make a potive impact in other departments because of my experience. For a year “Yeah, yeah we'll get you out of their soon” When the company downsized and fired the previous lead and left just me and another person; I stepped up fill the lead role. I told my boss if I was truly going to be pigeon holed into a position that I couldn't get out of, I need to get paid for it. “You have to do it for a little while to prove…

I’m going on my fourth month at a new job in the engineering industry working for a small company. My background is mostly materials research and I was working on a PhD in that field but the lab culture I was in was terribly toxic so I left. I was close to finishing the masters portion of my degree program but decided my mental health was more important. I was in a highly specialized field of materials science and my work has ended up in at least one publication, although not first author. I left my program and ended up on a different university research team, adjacent to engineering but still heavily involved in data collection and analysis. After that research program ran its course, I left the university with the hopes that industry would be a better experience. Fast forward to now, I feel like my employer and managers…

Hi, I have been working at my job for about 2.5 months now and my manager is one of the rudest people I have ever met. There have been so many incidents where she has made comments such as yelling “be quiet” from across the room (I am allowed to talk fyi, this isn’t a job where I have to be silent . I work with animals) and was simply asking my coworker what time she is finishing. She has told me to “move” out of her way, she constantly rolls her eyes at me and mutters horrible things under her breath and constantly puts me down and I seem to not do anything right. Every time I have never said anything because I didn’t think it was worth it. Anyway, recently she made me cry, twice, in one day. We were having a discussion and I mentioned that she…