Category: Antiwork

Working on a team that is convinced in order to be productive- we need to be in the office. Debatable. Overheard some lead talk about how their team is collaborating so much since he’s been in the office. (That you see, boomer) The dude came in at about 10 am for this online meeting and left before lunch. Never returned. I couldn’t help but cackle.

I work full time at a small business under direct management of the owners. This business is severely understaffed due to the owners wanting to save money on labour and them just being awful snappy people that don't replace staff when they quit due to mistreatment. Pay is terrible, work conditions are bad. Basically I just want out of this shit hole. I'm currently applying for a few positions that are more suited to my area of study at university. However I'm not sure how to go about obtaining references for these positions from my boss/how to go about scheduling interviews as I'm currently still employed full time. I was thinking of letting my boss know that I will be looking for opportunities that are more suited to my studies, as I'm approaching the end of my degree just to give them a heads up. But I do know that…

I think this might fit here I work in a company that requires a yearly budget for each department. I was able to do some manipulating of services and save the company over $40k a year. I get an email from “Jeb” that congratulate me. (Jeb is from a completely different department that I have nothing to do with. My executive officer isn’t even the same.) Jeb then says hey since you saved that how about you spend $126k on this item for my team. I tell him no because 1, I am not high enough to even authorize this and 2, because that cuts into my budget that was approved months ago and I lose things I need. But he meets with the execs and I am forced to comply. Now I had to do that, and I could pay for something we needed and I was yelled at…

Not my work but had to share, $90 million in sales and you get a cupcake, not cupcakes just a cupcake. Fuck Corporate America

What the title says. I’m in America so I understand at will employment, but am pretty amused at the fact that I just got fired for job dissatisfaction. They genuinely couldn’t provide other reasons, no write ups prior to it, but I was interpreted as being so unhappy with my job that it was a waste of everyone’s time to keep me on. I’ve learned lessons about how open to be with certain managers, particularly when it comes to training critiques. But still, to interpret questions about training as intense job dissatisfaction to the point of justifying termination is a little insane to me. Update: I was recruited for this position by a third party that effectively bait and switched me by offering a position I was genuinely really interested in and gave the me the position I got. As of right now, both my old position and the one…

So I got a part time job to try to pay off some debts and keep me busy recently. Floral Delivery, which as you might have guessed is very popular this time of year (Valentine's Day). It was fine, I did the work and whatever. But then Valentine's Day. Not only is there about 4-6x the volume of orders, but also a huge snowstorm started around 2-3am. Of course, the city I live in is unable to watch a weather forecast, so there were zero street plows. All roads completely buried. My boss was having me drive their car. It was some kind of Prius, and it sucked. Why have a boat with a strong engine when its so low to the ground, you can't go over a literal molehill without bottoming out? Anyway. I started early in the day and hustled. Its been snowing all day. And hard. My…

I've worked for my current company for about 5 years. I started low on the chain but have moved up to “upper middle management.” Due to some changes in the culture at my current job I don't have much room to grow anymore as family members of the owners have been placed in roles above me. This makes it highly unlikely I will continue to move up. I've been casually looking for a new opportunity since then. Just after Christmas I found an interesting job opening that fit my skills and applied. They reached out to me on January 30th and asked to set up a Zoom interview on February 1st and I accepted. About halfway through the interview things seemed odd, as the questions they were asking me didn't pertain to the job I applied for. I brought this up and they explained that the role I originally applied…