Category: Antiwork

Today I lost 4000$ because management & the union bargaining team haven’t agreed on a contract.

TLDR: I called the crisis number 988 while in a deep depressive state and the crisis rep said “sounds like you need a second job” I had a very interesting call to the crisis hotline today, after struggling for 15+ years with the stigma of mental health for men being a bad thing, I finally decided to call the crisis hotline to discuss all my overwhelming feelings of dread, self-loathing and hatred for myself as well as disclosing my mentally abusive relationship with my parents that resulted in me disowning them, a debilitating GI issue that results in blood loss through my stool, and the fact that I feel like a complete and utter failure because I just cant seem to become gainfully employed anywhere beside amazon and its a job I absolutely hate with no potential to move ahead, only constant labor and unreasonable quotas to fill, meanwhile literally…

Hi I’m a long time lurker of this subreddit and unfortunately I have a problem with my job, when I was hired at my job I negotiated a salary of 9 an hour instead of 8 an hour using advice from this very subreddit I was pretty proud of that, you guys helped me through my one of my first job interviews. But on to the problem, last year I got a raise from 9 to 10 an hour which I was very happy about since I worked very hard for it, but yesterday I was talking with my sister about how I felt like my checks were low I work Tuesday through Friday until we open back up on Monday’s and I thought that maybe since we weren’t back to the usual schedule my check was just short but nope I have an app from the actual job that…

It feels so great to reach this anniversary! My life has been great since I left a really toxic work place. I had an amazing internship over the summer where I got to travel on the weekends. Every day I think about when I quit and how free I felt and still feel. Never going back to a place like that again.

I'm sorry if this is the wrong tread for this.. I needed some time off work to travel aboard to tend to my sick father in law I asked for unpaid compassionate leave and my work booked the days off as a holiday without asking me meaning I have no days left for the rest of the year.. And also as the cut off has gone for pay it means I can't do anything I'm in the UK