Antiwork

I am also American and I have my own reasons why I’m still living the good ol American dream. Shitty pay, shitty healthcare, can’t afford retirement fund, constant dread of living this life forever. But, I have an amazing and supportive family, the love of my life, friends, 3 cats, and the slightest hope we can at least have what Europe has in the near future. I’m really curious about: What keeps the rest of you here? Where would you go if those reasons didn’t exist, and why? What conditions are you working with, and what conditions do you want the most?

I recently applied for a job in downtown Chicago. A prestigious real estate company that was honestly my dream job. After working with the recruiter and going through 4 interviews the company decided to offer me the job. We negotiated salary, they accepted. In the final process post offer letter they asked me to go back and fill out my educational background which I was never able to complete. (I have 8 years of relevant work experience). I never lied to them in the hiring process and assumed it wouldn’t be a big deal. Anyways, they call me back 2 days later to let me know that they are pulling the offer and I’m out of luck. Heartbroken and beyond disappointed. I guess I’m wondering is the recruiter at fault? Should I have said nothing and gone through the background check? Looking for advise.

I work security and for both companies Ive worked for they have had cameras facing the guards. “For our saftey” totally not to see if we are timing in on time or are taking too long of a break ect. Anyone else have problems with trust from higher ups at their jobs? Or just me..

I have amassed 7K EUR as my savings. I am currently employed as customer support rep in training, but I am definitely gonna be fired coz I have had enough of this BS job and I been “on sick leave” for 3 days now. In the employee handbook it's stated you may not go on sick leave until the training period is over, so yeah Im def getting fired but so be it. Anyway, so basically I am a student finishing my degree in uni, I won't need a job for quite a while coz of my savings. For the past 3 days I have woken up at 11AM, or whenever I wanted to / needed to (body waking me up basically), I have been able to do WHATEVER I WANTED, jesus… I am SO happy! Stress-free, eating healthy on my keto diet, no rushes to appear by X o'clock…

I'm generally a straightforward person. I do things out in the open because I can't stand games, but that's all they do at work. Games, games, games. Gotcha games, sneak attacks, secret shoppers, tricks, traps and on and on. Oh, you're going to be gone tomorrow for surgery? That's the day we'll be there to audit your office because we can trick the rest of the staff a lot easier and they haven't been there at long so they won't know where things are or the answers to the questions that'll be asked and we can score you lower on purpose. Oh, we have 3,000 rules for customer interaction and we're gonna send moles (secret shoppers) to tattle on you for stupid shit that real customer don't even give a damn about. They always say that they're coming to help you but when they get there, it's only to find…

Me (33 F) don’t wanna get a job. The last time I had a corporate job (2018) I was traumatized by my old boss because I was very young (I was 26) to be a manager and have a lot of responsibility and I didn’t deserve it according to her. The truth is that I have a bachelors degree and two masters degrees. I stopped working because I got married and my ex husband forced me to quit. Now that we’re divorced I’m so scared to get a new one and go again through the same stuff, not being enough to perform any job and so many things happen around my head. I lived out of my savings but now I don’t have anymore money and I don’t know what to do, I feel like I can’t event get a grocery store job 🙁 have y’all feel something like that?

TW : don't read if you think this kind of post could affect your mood / you're not doing too well right now. Hi there people. I've lost a very good friend last week. He was one of the best human beings there were, and he killed himself after writing a letter about how he couldn't deal with humanity anymore, mentioning that everything felt empty and void of meaning, and that we were heading towards an incredibly dark future. We've played games together since we were kids (video games, LOTS of warhammer up until this day, sports and so on) and I think it's going to take me a long time to grieve. It's in German since it happened in Germany, but I translated it anyways. It's incredibly similar to what a lot of people are constantly talking about in this subreddit, so I thought you'd want to read it.…

I spend most of my days accessing the company drive via a VPN connection, but the connection is so slow that I can only access the drive 50% of the time (and even then, it's shaky). The few times I've mentioned this, my boss has acted like 'Well, it's not happening to me, so you're just overblowing the issue.' It's beyond frustrating. I've spoken to IT, who hasn't been much help either (gave me me different laptop, and blamed my router). Now that I'm very late on a project (a month overdue, but no deadline posted) my boss is threatening to have me come in and work in the office. Any advice on how I can politely deflect that?

Kinda aggravating. No company should do 15hr but even the “good” ones do. Like it’s industry standard for everyone to do 15hr. I feel like I can’t even get ahead, I hate the 3x income rule because it’s so f*cked up with how every landlord does this. This country is terrible. Idk how people survive, maybe I’m just bad at it. Rant*

I've been at this job for almost ten years, and I don't think there was a head of HR that was there for more than two (and it's not just the head, it's everyone, most of them being around for less than a year). It's not my department and I haven't had any issues with them, but it's always made me wonder. The whole point of HR is, theoretically, to smooth things over between employees and management, but clearly something is amiss.