Category: Antiwork

Really curious if it's just me. The first 6 months are a time of learning and adjusting and getting to know people. It's great. Always feel positive and engaged. Then around the 8month mark suddenly everything shifts and going to the office is torture. At 10 months i start looking for other opportunities and at 12 im gone. It's like clockwork. The routine of it all becomes so tedious. The same route to work. The same people. The same weird misunderstandings and confusion and horrible conversations with managers. I feel like im playing the shittiest, longest game of musical chairs ever and it all ends with me at some horrible onboarding event in the conference room of some random tech startup and i keel over dead from a brain aneurysm. My eulogy will read “here lies another casualty of modern neo-liberalism. He spent his entire adult life faking it until…

I (23m) have been working at this place for 5 months and just got a write-up, nothing I got written up for has ever been mentioned in the manual or by other workers or my manager. I have been saving for a car (as best as I can in this economy) so I have been very lenient with what rules have gotten broken by my manager but if shes gonna write me up for a medical emergency I feel as if it's earned to report all the rules she's broken (especially since part of my write up is related to disability). ​ i feel so petty for calling corporate on her seeing as I've never done it to jobs that arguably have treated me worse, but I'm so sick of managers taking advantage of the fact I'm desperate to keep a job. I'm fearful if I report the store's condition…

I've been working from home for a contact center with a computer the company provided. This computer hardly works and more than 50% of the time I'm unable to work due to connection errors. My supervisor has been ignoring my request for help (she has had no problem telling me to get to work when I'm having connection issues) when I can see her responding to others in a group chat. Today, when I asked for help I was blamed for the computer not working, being sick last week and a few other things outside of my control. I'm fed up with my supervisor, the company and this job all together and at this point I just want to quit but I need to do so in a way that I can still get unemployment in Texas.

Fed contractor in Texas, land of the free /s I got to work at 4:55, 5 minutes to start. Clocked in our phone time keeping app at like 4:57, which pushes it to 5:00. Saw we had actual work to do (the last 2 weeks we’ve been 100% out of work and have been getting paid to review training manuals). So I instantly got to work at like 4:58, signed out a bundle of work on a tracking log that includes the time, put 5:00pm just like everyone else who was in line. Tried finding a computer that worked when I got a text from my manager asking if I’m here. Told him yes. Told me to come to his office. Went there (5:15pm), and he tells me he’s docking me 15 minutes because he didn’t see me until now. Told him I clocked in the app at 5, and…

So I have recently moved to a different city with the initial plan to work from home. The company stated that I couldn't do this so I have continued to commute 80 miles to work. The commute is killing me and the overall getting up early has lead to sleep deprivation, anxiety and loss of appetite. My probation is 6 months and I've been working there for 5. Is it okay to just quit without notice?

I got no idea what happens to my unused time off in IL after I quit? I used all of it last year and I know I am quitting soon so the few measly days I get for the year just renewed in January, it would be cool if that can be paid out so when I self-employed as a contractor, I could just use it to travel which I do plan to do. BUT THE HANDBOOK I got did not cover anything about PTO and quitting. But if not, I will try to use as much of it but it's not like I can ask my boss or coworkers. And the only coworker that quit in the last 2 years did not have any PTO saved so I can't ask her So, when you quit, what happened to your PTO? But honestly job has become a little unbearable anyways…

For years I’ve sacrificed my social life and my mental health pursuing this or that dream job and even though I always get super positive feedback I’ve always felt I was just staying in place and ultimately catching a lot of shit for people who make more money than me doing a job I could easily do. A few years ago Things got worse and climaxed with a mental break where I talked a lot of trash about an old employer publicly (felt great) and I was pleasantly surprised to see I found a job that paid better almost immediately. But now it’s like something has just cracked and I can’t give it 110% anymore. I just keep thinking “none of this matters. If I disappeared tomorrow nobody here would care and they would have me replaced by the end of the day.” I’m technically working “in the arts” but…