Antiwork

I was a manager at a tech startup company for the past 2.5 years, and I recently found out this week that my entire team and I will be laid off as the company will be outsourcing. I found out today that this was my company's plan for the entire past year, and I even turned down a job offer I was handed in October of 2022 after I was given a promotion and substantial raise as an incentive to stay. They did this knowing that they weren't going to keep me for much longer. The lesson here is to NEVER take an incentive when giving notice to your company. Don't take the promotion, don't take the raise — just leave. It shouldn't take the threat of leaving for them to give you a raise/promotion, anyway. I feel so much regret right now.

I had a terrible experience over the weekend. Someone under the influence attacked me with a machete but I was able to disarm them and gain control of the blade. I suffered cuts, bruises and am sore all over. The next morning I made some calls after less than 3 hours of sleep to get things going and had to connect with work to get some time off. In their usual operating efficiency they managed to fumble that royally and then asked me to directly talk to my boss. I did. Leave granted for 3 or so days with a reminder to come back Monday. Ok whatever. I will try to rapidly heal. Get a text like 20 min later from my boss to help figure out some work related issue as I am the only one in house who does the job. It took a lot of willpower to…

The short of it: Recruiter reached out to me for an interview for a client success manager position. Strings me along since Sunday night trying to nail down an interview date/time. I finally get this response from her today. After stewing about it for an hour at my exercise class, I go back to my car and pound out this response. In other news, I think I’m ready for a career in corporate communications.

Consultants who help comapykill remote work really piss me off. https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/employment-expert-explains-why-remote-work-wont-last

I’m in graduate school and I received an offer for full-time employment from the employer I worked for this summer, which I will refer to as “AP.” The main issue is that the full time salary I am being offered by AP is lower than the estimate initially given to me before I agreed to an internship there. Starting from the beginning, last fall I received two offers for a summer internship. The other offer paid a much higher summer salary than AP. I asked AP if they could “make up any ground” on the other offer. AP matched the other offer (this was a high salary for a summer job). Before accepting, I asked AP (specifically, the supervisor who would “negotiate” my full time offer currently pending) what the full time salary would be out of grad school if I continued to work there. She told me, though with…

So as title says, For starters, I've been in this job for 5 years now, my coworker has been here coming up 2 years. When he first started he seemed like an alright dude, kind and funny, helpful and knew the job pretty well (10+ years experience, this is my first job). After a couple of months I saw him become all buddy buddy with my line manager, and now I feel like I have my nose pushed up against the glass. He has loads of personal issues, worried incase the bank forecloses on his house because of the interest rates we're battling, alongside some health issues and personal finance issues. All of which I've tried to be supportive of, listening to him and trying to help him figure things out (fyi, I'm 21 and he is approaching 49). For some reason it seems he wants to take all of…

Hi all, I have a management position within my remote company, where I run a specific branch that works with the sales team. I have been exceeding in my role since I joined the company and am constantly praised throughout the company. However, lately there has been a lot of unease within my workplace. The sales team has been struggling, and I work side by side with them in an effort to help drive sales. I am hearing mutterings from many people that they are unhappy, and some have suggested they may look for now jobs soon. I have felt quite secure, mainly because I am doing well, but it still brings me unease hearing this from them. Last week I received a call from my boss to discuss some struggles she was feeling. She turned the call recording off and began to complain about the founder of the company…

I’m on salary. I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around the idea of having to make up PTO. It seems counter intuitive to the point of PTO. If I have to make it up, was it paid time off at all? I normally have an administrative day off that Indon’t have to come in, but they are saying since I asked for 3 dayr or more now I have to pick an admin day to work a half day. Thing is, I requested PTO for the admin day as well. So like… i might as well not request that time and come in? Seems like a form of wage theft or PTO theft at least.

For context – Been with my company for 5 years climbing the ranks from working as a cashier to handling the entire organizations analytics, corporate dev/M&A, and FP&A. In this time my salary has increased from ~$40K to $55K. It finally came to a head where I asked to be raised to $75K and was told best they can do is $62.5K. Told them this doesn’t work and I’m planning on walking to which my boss responded that anything less than 4-6 weeks notice would not be taken graciously and, in essence, I would be dead to him. So my questions are – is this just douchebaggery to try to squeeze a bit more time out of me? And am I shooting myself in the foot not being able to rely on them for a reference in the future?