Category: Antiwork

I have been Pastry Chef at my job for almost 2 years. I actually work inside a large store. For the last 2 years I've been told my upper management how much the love my work, how great a job I was doing. A new chef, my direct boss, was hired several months ago. He has been trying to influence himself into my menus which I have been very vocally opposed too. I found out that the manager in charge of the company decided he wants this new chef to do all my menus and tell me what to make. I've had complete autonomy and free reign the entire time I've been in this job. In 15 years I've NEVER been railroaded like this. So I'm quitting next week. I have another job lined up from a friend. I'm quitting no call, no show, with an email that simply says…

i’ve (f 24) been an instructional designer for almost 2 years now. we have good benefits, i work from home, we work at flexi time (i can work for 3 hrs max only per day), and my salary is comparably high considering that i live in the province. my coworkers are great but most of them are planning on resigning so i’m scared about that, since we get along well, considering my mental illnesses. (there aren’t a lot of companies with coworkers who value and understand your mental health here in the philippines). but as someone with double depression (PDD + MDD), the more i stay in this WFH set-up, the more miserable i get. i almost got to a point where i was so depressed i considered offing myself. i don’t particularly like the work i do. it doesn’t stimulate me nor challenge me. i only feel like a…

8 to 10 years ago I worked in retail. It was the norm at the place I worked that when ever we had done better than expected we would either get pizza for lunch, or the company would give us breakfast. Well after the old store manager was replaced with a new one, he immediately discontinued this practice with the words “we pay you, that's all the reward you need” needless to say worker morale plummeted and several people went on sick-leave with stress, or found greener pastures.

My job has asked us to answer “goal” questions for our performance reviews. Since I think they’d frown on the answer of my goal being “you giving me more money”, how would you answer this? I like my job and want a raise, but this is weird. The questions are: what goals do you have for your role, what goals do you have to help your team, and what goals do you have for yourself personally? Any advice would be helpful, thanks.