Category: Antiwork

I quit my job of 8 months and the manager told me “so everything we invested in you went down the drain”. Wtf? You didn't invest shit, you only paid my salary on time and took half of my tips. It's true that when I was hired I went through a 2 week training period during which I was paid normally, that I can call an investment, but I bet it was returned several times. Besides, the training, while good props to my teacher, was rushed, most of what I learned I learned from other, more experience colleagues who had the patience to put up with my mistakes and answer my questions. They invest effort and nerves into me, the people who technically speaking had no obligation to teach me anything. So, I'm asking you, what does investing in an employee mean? Because in my book paying salaries on time…

So I started a new job recently (administration at a college which I won’t name). It involves a lot of data entry, dealing with students, and filing transcripts among other things. My bosses and colleagues seem pretty nice and told me constantly to not be afraid to come to them with questions or make mistakes. The problem is I have a fear of messing up. I was told the same thing at my last job and was basically micromanaged and berated by my old supervisor constantly for “messing up.” Does anyone have any advice?

So I've been working on a special project for the last month. Having to travel double the distance to the facility in order to do so. Let me preface. I am diagnosed with BP1 and am being medicated. Some days, I am not able to go in. I made my manager aware that this is my predicament, and he is understanding. My supervisor, however, takes shots at me when I am and have been one of the most versatile in the department. He implied today that I am never in the office. I replied even if that was the truth. I do my job, don't work half the day, and sit on my phone like others in the group, and I'm cross trained and can do basically everything. This was met with a “Blah Blah Blah.” To say this was infuriating is an understatement. I'm done at this point….I can't…

I know it’s normal and part of being an adult, but I don’t like the person I’ve become. Every job I have had is so full of toxic people who are hateful towards each other. I just want more kindness in this world.

I'll have to start with a lengthy intro. I'm Russian, and since my country invaded Ukraine, I had to deal with a chain of unfortunate events: I had to move to one of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries which still tolerates Russians. That's not just because of the war, but also because of my political stance. I hate Putin, openly supported opposition, participated in street protests in the past, etc. You probably know what happens to people like me in Russia. I have a mortgage to pay. My plan is to pay everything in the next 2 years. Right now I have to rent the apartment (I was going to live there, but then the war happened), and the rent doesn't covert even 1/3 of my monthly mortgage payments. The rent goes to my family, as I was their primary source of income before I left Russia, and…

Not sure which yet, but the manager has basically ghosted me and not asked me to come in for over 2 months. I'm just casually drafting an email with some of the thoughts I have. May or may not ever send. Context: I'm a contractor here, employed by a separate contracting company they use to get away with stuff like this. I've been working there a year. It's normal to have slow months where you only come in maybe 5 days of the month, but not normal to get absolutely nothing for this long. “Hi Manager, It's clear at this point that I'm not valued at [job]. There has consistently been a lack of communication that made me feel my time was not respected. I find it unprofessional to not at minimum update employees when they're not needed for extensive periods of time. Even more unprofessional to say they're simply…