Guys I can't do this anymore. Long story short, I left a preview job I hated, (dickhead manager, untenable work life balance) and came to this remote one. This is my second real big boy job, (24 years old) And for awhile it was okay but holy fuck they've shown their true colors and my whole team has either quit, or is actively job hunting.
I'll run down the bullshit, its a glorified call center, they advertised it as a salaried professional development role but we're just bitch hourly phone grunts. We're treated like numbers, its dehumanizing, we're micro managed to hell and back as our software tracks us minute to minute and if we are “out of adherence” for even 10 min we get chewed out. We're condescended to and talked to like we're 10 years old. Extreme corporatism bullshit. It's actually making me miss my last job. Everyone is depressed here and despondent. It's detracting from all of our personal lives. They just announced this morning that they're ending remote work and moving back to office and expanding our hours on the phones each day. So more. This was apparently some kind of punishment for all of us as someone allegedly was cheating the system not taking calls, can't blame them. Now we're being punished with more of our… primary… job responsibility. Yeah bad indicator.
Now you may be thinking, “just quit dude?” but here's the thing, as ever with America the wage slavery is strong and I have bills to pay. And my job hunt has thus far only turned up rejection letter after rejection letter. However, I have a very good savings, (I'll just say 10,000-20,000 on the higher end) and would've honestly quit by now and simply lived off my savings job hunting full time. It's that bad. BUT, when I came from my last job they snuck in a $5000 relocation contract which means I have to stay here for another like half a year or more until thats void and I can't fucking do it. It's hurting my mental health so badly in my personal life. But like, with that bullshit contract I'm fucked. Do I buy lottery scratch offs? Fundraise? What the hell can I do I can't take this anymore.