Category: Antiwork

Hey! I work remotely selling educational exchanges. My virtual office consists of me and my manager, we sell to people in my country (Ecuador) that don´t live in the two cities where we have physical offices (My manager is Colombian, he has been living in Ecuador for 4 months). The thing is that it´s really difficult to sell these kinds of services to this people because they are not accustomed to buy stuff online. Neither my manager or I sell a lot. For the last couple of months he has been threatening that if I don´t sell they are going to fire me (he and I have very similar sells). He has been telling me to work extra hours with no extra pay, to even sell on Sundays, etc. The thing is I really need this job right now, cause in a couple of months I am going to the…

I work temp jobs (“fun” of the job, none of the commitment.) Today we had our field trip to the treasury department and my boss played the monthly all staff meeting. The Q&A section was mostly about return to work guidelines and people had great questions. The higher ups did not have great answers. A whole department is exempt and when asked about why they get to be so even though other teams have proven themselves to be able to work from home, the guy just dodged all the questions.

Talking to a friend who works for a small plumbing company (25-35 employees total). They were, of course, late on his annual review (and conveniently, his annual raise). He had the meeting last week and got a .75% increase. He was obviously pissed. His boss then told him that he was really doing him a favor because he knows how much he makes and if he gave him a bigger raise he'd just barely bump into a higher tax bracket and actually lose money. The guy has a wife who works full time, and he has no idea what tax bracket he is actually in. Edit: Didn't even think about the marginal brackets. Yea, only the income above the cutoff is taxed at a higher rate. This dude sucks even more.

There's so much to complain about, but I guess I'll start with this. Two months ago, my supervisor came up to me about getting trained on the forklift (Order Picker specifically), so he pulled me into his office to watch safety videos. Two weeks later, I asked him when am I getting trained, and he said there are no trainers working my shift (damned lie) A week later, someone who quit 6 months ago comes back and they train him on 2 machines in one day. The same machine I'm supposed to get trained for and another (double pallet jack). I ask him again a week later about getting trained on the Order Picker, and he said I first need to get trained on the double pallet jack. -_- TL:DR. The supervisor keeps making excuses not to train me on the machine while other people get trained

No shame for drinking but god this is my first engineering job out of college and i can't take the stress of this guy anymore. I get we've all got our issues we deal with but he's so unpredictable it's got me and my coworkers nervous. He's a nice guy sometimes and it makes me wanna forgive him but then he turns around and loses his cool at the drop of a hat. I told him i didn't know what to do with myself when i get home because i get so frazzled after just a day in the office, he recommended drinking. he even admitted to drinking in the mornings. i'll admit it did get to be a bad habit and i'm working to cut back now. i just can't handle the stress anymore and everyone says i have to stay here at least a year. i try and…

Just withdrew application to be a driving instructor after finding out I would have to pay for my own BGC as well as get no bennies. Instead of a $19/hr p/t now suddenly I was applying for a contract job that would start me in the hole $600 for 480 hours accrual (2 hours a pop) to receive initial training, with no road/classroom differential..? Yeah guy, I bet you will work the new guy more than 20 hours a week, because HOW??? (even with the $20k PPP loan you got.)

Disclaimer, there will be some frank discussions of money here, and I admit I'm on the privileged end of things. I normally wouldn't mention this stuff but it ties directly into my post, so whatever. Ever since I graduated college during the 2008 recession, I've always had a strong scarcity mindset toward work/jobs. Like many here, I don't work because it's my passion or my dream, I do it because I want to be financially secure and if I happen to like my job it's a big upside. Perhaps I actually did have money troubles in my early 20s, but now in my 30s my husband and I make enough money that if one of us stopped working for a year, we'd be fine. All that said, I still live in fear of getting fired, and refuse to ever quit my job, and it's put me in really crappy situations.…