Category: Antiwork

I work in education and I don't make much money. Currently my take home every month is around 1800. I have been in this job for 2 years. I also have a chronic pain condition and, in America, you have to be with a company for a year in order to get protections and access to FMLA. My health insurance is also pretty good with my job and covers my 4x/year neurology visits. So trying to get a new job is pretty challenging. I also have 55K in student loans that will be forgiven if I can stay in the education industry for 10 years so that's a big incentive. I've been attempting to get a part-time job to help make ends meet but haven't gotten any interviews. I am free nights and weekends. I even got a rejection note from Kroger. I've tried editing my resume different ways, including…

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The devil convincing people he didn't exist, but I disagree…it is minimum wage jobs expecting maximum effort

So here I am all happy to get progress on a project that has been talked about for years and is finally making progress. I send an email and the organization head replies saying he was unaware of this details of the project. Then one of his direct reports basically says they were aware but didn’t have any details, which is BS as they were in all the meetings. Another person below in the chain replies backing me up and includes actual quotes from management. So these two guys in upper management aren’t talking like they should at their level, and I feel I’m the one in the wrong. Is this common?

I’ve been working for the same municipality for almost 7 years. 2 years ago I made a lateral move for my own mental health, as my boss in my then department was not listening to any of my complaints about issues with harassment I was receiving from another supervisor. I applied for, and received, another position on the opposite side of the city for the same pay and essentially the same duties. Within a month of being there the two main managers abruptly retired. Within another month the only other main employee quit. I was left with one other employee who is in the department but has a different skill set to the main needs of the department. A year later, we finally got back to a fully staffed position. But, I was quickly being given more and more duties and projects to work on — that don’t exactly correlate…