Category: Antiwork

Hi {boss's name},  I don't want to start the new year in a bad way, but I am offended that I said hello to you earlier in the office and you didn't say hello back. I don't know if you meant it, but it came across as rude and for me that is very demotivating.  Best,  {my name} Context- my boss has been away for 6 weeks and today i saw her for the first time, she came into the office and said “hello {my colleague's name}” and has a nice chat with my colleague but completely ignored me when i said hello to her. This is a pattern of rudeness rather than a one off. I'm finding it hard to work at all because I'm pissed off.

First time this has happened to me in 20 years as a consultant. Client is weirdly micromanaging and adversarial. He’ll explicitly give directions to do something, I summarize the action items, send it to everyone on the call and proceed to work on them. Then at the next call, in front of the team, he’ll say he never said to do that and talk to me like a child. I’ve never been talked to like that at work so I know my facial expressions on video were priceless. Now it’s happened 3 x. The meetings are recorded and I can confirm, I sent correct action items out to everyone. I don’t need to know why he does this but I would like a few responses when he’s berating me. The other gaslighter is the SME. He keeps saying “stop stressing” I’m the PM. It’s literally my job to worry about…

Grr! When I was available to receive benefits at my last job I chose a cancer policy. I was in open enrollment and decided to not take the service. It was pricy and I quit 3 weeks later. I worked for a health & life insurance broker so most all things for employee benefits were handled in-house I was told to fill out a form and send it to the carrier terminating coverage. Ok, did that. Now I got a letter the employer didn’t submit their letter if withdrawal for the policy and they are saying I’m on the hook for it. I quit before the policy was even in force. No money was paid to this!! Why am I bound to this policy when I was still in open enrollment? Because my stupid employer didn’t do the one thing they had to. I sent a letter to the cancer…

At my new job before starting, they contacted my references and asked “Do you like him?” My references were my professors from college and one of my professors told me, “It was weird, they were asking off topic questions that did not relate to the job, but I just went along with it.” I never heard of this before, so I am curious.

Was curious can a company penalize you for taking paid sick leave? Giving you points or demerits whatever that could lead to being fired?