Category: Antiwork

I'm being treated like shit by a coworker and have been trying to move to a different shift for months. My boss won't let me change shifts because we are short staffed and the solution as of right now is to sit us down together so we can have a conversation. We have done this twice already. Nothing changes, just added tension. I just want out of this so bad I have been considering quitting, but my boss promises me they will switch my shift in the next 2 months. I'm tired of crying after every shift and being so anxious on my days off that it's difficult to eat or sleep. I'm off today and I've been crying thinking about it. I told them how badly this is affecting me but they still want me to sit down with her. What do I do?? I came to them with…

I was employed for a few months at a consulting company, let's call it ABC consulting. It was a tough environment, no structure and harsh feedback on why the things you should know (not sure how you should know them) are not done how the boss wants. After a few weeks the boss was micro-managing me and at the same time not providing structure. The employer announced that our client had layoffs and that it would also affect us by removing me and 3 of our team mates. I was going to effectively have to move to a new client, but they don't tell you who and there is an air of suspense in the call as they mention you might not make it past the cut our company will surely need to do. That same week my boss was acting very shady.. picking on me in front of people…

There has to be a special hell for employers like that. Just that.

Anyone seen Severance? Great anti-professionalism/capitalist art I recommend ‍️ it because who pays for apple tv. Anyway I’ll try to give a summary of the with minimal spoilers, but if you want to go in blind- its a great kafkaesque comedy/drama about late stage capitalism and dehumanization of the employee. Watch it fr. So the basic premise is that people can be cognitively split between their work selves and their free selves. Their work selves remember and experience nothing but office drudgery and their free selves never have to step into the office. Aside from more wishy washy themes of how memory and narrative shapes our identities, I think the main target of the show’s satire is professionalism. Its a joke, and a cruel one for the “innies” trapped in the office their whole lives. These perma-employees have to act, talk, and feel a certain way lest they be “corrected”…

I worked for a company that designed and installed customized workspaces (mostly meeting rooms and auditoriums). We integrated a lot of equipment (audio / video, lighting, control systems, furnishings, etc.) so companies could do impressive presentations for their clients and employees. It's a niche industry that is heavily affected by the ups and downs of the economy, so it is difficult to find and retain good experienced designers and installers. I'd had enough of the company management, and quit. I was the lead engineer, but they kept allowing the head salesman to overrule my design decisions (which usually ended up costing the company money as his changes did not work – which I would then get blamed for). I was also supposed to keep the schedule for the installers, but management would overrule my schedule and send installers to different destinations at the last moment – causing upset customers (that…

Hi All, I took my current role in a fortune 500 company about 2 years ago. It was a new role that the company created as they were venturing into territory previously unknown to them. I am a manager of one (but not titled as a manager), and our scope of work is very niche. Recently I learned that the company was hiring an official Manager for the department. I of course, applied thinking I would get the promotion because I am the one who has developed the program from scratch over the last 2 years, and that would free up a position under me for me to hire another person to share the workload. I was wrong. They hired an external manager above me who I now report to, and have had my title changed to that of the person I was managing previously (making us equals as far…