Category: Antiwork

I’m a nurse and need bereavement leave. My company policy entitles me to three shifts. I’m asking two. They’re trying to only approve one. Just sent this email: “Hello X, I appreciate staffing concerns and I think I have demonstrated flexibility and teamwork for staffing in critical times on a consistent basis. I have never missed a day of work since my time of hire for any reason and pick up overtime regularly. Respectfully, though, I will not be coming to work on Sunday 1/29. Attached is my grandmother's obituary to show that the funeral is several states away and does not begin until 3pm on Saturday. I hope I will be granted the bereavement leave I am entitled to per policy, but either way, staffing arrangements will need to be made for Sunday 1/29 as I will be unable to attend. I do not mean to be difficult and…

A cost of living increase? Nope. But instead, they paid for an organizational wide Dave Ramsey course about how to budget your money. They do not give regular raises. Cost of living or otherwise. But I will soon know to avoid avacado toast.

The title says all I’m really able to spit out right now. My job has sucked every bit of joy from my life. I’m in a really bad place mentally and physically because of it. I have insomnia, no appetite, digestive problems, have developed substance abuse problems and my mental health has severely declined since I started this job. I no longer have a live outside off with and every minute of every day is spent trying to find a realistic way out. I no longer do any of the things I used to enjoy. I’ve isolated myself from the few people I used to maintain contact with. Last week I got a rejection email from a job that could have turned my whole life around and I’m devastated. I want to write out my entire sob story here but I’m just so emotionally drained and overwhelmed that I can’t…

First off how many times I have to put in the same information on the same applications that also needs my resume with all the same info on it, just to get an email back that I need to apply on the official website and write in all the same info again OR the jobs that string you along with no desire to actually hire, like the one I had to check in with every day for over a month before the managers were actually in store, and then stopped talking to me after they filled out all my paperwork OR the job offers that just never respond, no follow-up, no rejection email, which is 95% of the jobs OR the jobs I've been applying to that want me to make the job my entire life, telling me I can't wrestle on the weekends because they might need me over…