Antiwork

Earlier this year, I was at a company paying me a very good salary with solid benefits. However, my direct boss was horribly abusive. She would scream at me to the point where I cried twice. She would call me and my work worthless/pointless/irrelevant. She'd throw my work into the trash in front of me, even after I worked outside business hours on the report. She'd slam her hands on the table and lean in my face and yell. All of this because I was new to the field, and she was made aware of this from my interviews. She had the final say to hire me. Eventually, after writing a letter asking her to change her actions to no avail, I went to HR and got gaslit with phrases like, “Are you sure she screamed at you? Maybe she is just a loud person.” I left the company. Today,…

Currently work at Nordstrom Rack as an inventory assistant manager (21F). I’ve been here for 8 months, but I’m finally leaving this week. My boss, 30F, reminded me of a pharmacist I used to work for – pretentious, arrogant, gives zero fucks about anyone but themselves. I never got along with her, and this boss currently reminded me of her from the get-go. I got the vibe that I didn’t like her whatsoever, but I gave her a chance, and tried to see if maybe, just maybe, she was different. I was wrong. The thing that confirmed it for me was when everyone in the back of house were talking, and she had mentioned that she was a bully until 12 years old. That’s what I KNEW she had not outgrown it. This woman had made comments about my hair, my weight/youth compared to her, pinpoints me for mistakes that…

I got a offer in my field across the country in a place I’ve always wanted to live and the offer is for 3x what my currently salary is. So it was a no brainer to accept because I’d never make that in the state I currently live in. I went to give my boss a three month notice (I have a very uncommon job that takes years of training). I’ve never given a notice that large before but I thought I was doing the right thing. My boss told me that he couldn’t trust me anymore and I had to go that day. I’ve never been fired before in my life , I never called out or showed up late and was constantly doing my best.

Do these people not care or don't realize that I'm away for two weeks starting this Monday? This was all cleared already and approved and even next to my name it says I'm on vacation. Yet for the third time this week I have a project manager asking me if I can take an article. Actually, this one today just assigned it to me without even asking lol. I shouldn't even have to be checking my messages or inbox on there but here I am wasting precious time telling them I can't do any work now and reminding them I'm on vacation. Granted I didn't fly anywhere, I'm still in town, but I'm using my free time to go around to different lakes and beaches.

I work for a large company and am a salary employee. I work 80 hours every 2 weeks. A regular paycheck for me is about 1140. Every here and there I have been taking an unpaid day off and when I take those, my check is usually 1040. I just got my check (which should have included an unpaid day.. I didn’t add hours for the day) and it’s my regular rate of 1140 so I think they may have overpaid me then.. Just because I usually know how much I get when I take an unpaid day. Should I do the right thing and tell them..?

Me and one other coworker work for 1 lawyer as interns. I started here 4 months ago, and I thought it was going to get a little better but I still don’t like going to work. For one, the lawyer does not speak to us with respect. Every morning I’m afraid that he’ll rip into my work and embarrass me. He believes that pointing out mistakes and being tough is the only way to make you learn. He’s mean then he apologizes and says he’s sorry for being hard on us. There’s day where he yells at my coworker then my coworker tries to make me feel worse by criticizing my work. One time my coworker was getting ripped into for his portion of some legal research we did, then on a day I wasn’t in work he did the whole thing by himself, and felt the need to tell…

I’m 25 and this is my second office job, so I’ve never experienced a “real” office, as I have always been a hybrid worker. In both jobs, I would have maybe 2 hours of actual work to do per day. Is this normal, or is this just the industry that I am in?