Antiwork

I don't post to Reddit a lot, mostly I just comment and lurk, but I just need to vent. I've been struggling with something between depression and bipolar disorder for most of my life now (not self-diagnosing, I've been to several psychiatric hospitals and different doctors have told me different things), to the point where it's been hard for me to keep jobs at times. Two years ago, almost to the day, a close friend of mine died, and I've been in a massive funk since. I left a job at a group home I'd held for 6 years, went through a period of incredible mental instability, ended up in another hospital, and eventually moved from my home state to Fort Hood TX to live with my cousin's family on a military base rent-free, because of being unable to continue to pay rent where I was, and feeling incredibly distressed…

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TW: terminal illness, mental health Left this team after 3 years there end of 2021. I’m so happy I found a new role in a different team at the same company (they pay for my graduate school, can’t leave unless I wanna be on the hook for grad school debt). However, I can’t help that if things are so much better, is it ok I’m still feeling some effects of trauma from the last team? In my last team, there were MANY red flags. But the biggest thing that crushed me was my supervisor passing away from almost a year long battle with cancer. He worked for 9 months after his diagnosis before taking medical leave, then passed away almost a month and a half after that. He essentially worked till almost the very end. We fell into that trap where the six of us (four team members, supervisor, and…

So I work for a couple who owns several businesses and operates them all from the same office. They’re all very similar, but have different LLCs. I work in the accounting and HR department for all the businesses. I do not have access to payroll as that is someone else’s job. I am paid hourly. Recently, they asked me to start working late and working on Saturdays. Well, when I got my paycheck I noticed I wasn’t paid time and a half for the hours worked over 40. I asked and they said they don’t pay office staff time and a half since we work for all the businesses. They told me: “technically you work for all the businesses so it’s a couple hours for this one, a couple hours for that one, and so on per week. You never worked over 40 hours for one of the businesses.” I…

After entering summer vacation I have decided to better make use of my time by applying to a business I was working on before my father had heart surgery. They were an unprofessional lot. I was basically tasked with writing articles about SaaS marketing by rephrasing arguments from other web pages. This is some sort of content stealing but this was not all. Our superior(s) often forgot to assign writing tasks to “content writers” and deducted them from our pay. Yet it only took 1-2 days a week and it was remote work. I thought I could return to the job and make some money to pay my credit card debt. Upon returning I learnt that some things were changed. The content writers (none of whom I recognized from my earlier period with the company since they probably quit) were assigned an editor. An editor that seemed nice enough at…

Not in the US, so the same employment law/practices aren't applied. Just wondering if what I did and the circumstances for doing so are justified or if I'm just stupid, tbh. I work in a company that's 100km from me. I commute two hours each way, Monday to Friday and was told initially that I could come in a little later (10.30 instead of 9) and leave at 5. This is mainly because I'm already working as I travel to and from work. This has since changed and im now expected to be in the office for 9, which isn't what we agreed. The people I work with are great, but one of my managers is a workaholic and expects everyone to be the same. The idea of working 9-5.30 to them is ridiculous, as they believe that overworking is the standard, not the exception. I'm a single mother, and…

I was informed last Wednesday that my department is being laid off effective this coming Friday. I work in a tech industry as a hybrid role of wfh and in office. They told us that we have to be in office this entire last week cleaning up and prepping stuff to be sold. No where in my job description does it say in a cleaning person or a mover. With that said do I have to help them clean the office out and shit like that? I fucking hate this place and am now without a job so why should I clean up shit for them? We have a severance package and my boss told us to cheat this clock and take everything we can from them. I don’t see a point in keeping upper management happy when they just fucked my life up so why should I help do…

I can't agree more. I've worked a lot of jobs, many “entry level”, where people require little to no prior experience with the job in order to successfully do the job, but NONE of those jobs have required no skills whatsoever. What I find is that people use the term “unskilled” to generally mean: Skills that a 'normal' person acquires through growing up and existing in society. In other words, things like: Being able to fake-smile to customers Counting money Moving things from warehouse to shelf Bagging things Following instructions such as “bring that thing over here” The problem is that many “not skills” required by “unskilled” jobs are NOT the kinds of things that people develop naturally, and tend to be skills that are really counterintuitive to how humans live, learn, and thrive. For example: Interacting with the public consistently with the purpose of presenting a positive image of…

The CEO of Walmart makes about 25.7 million a year, this translates to 12,355.77 an hour. 12,355.77 ÷ 60 = $205.92 a minute. 205.92 × 4 = 823.71 a day for 4 minutes in the bathroom 823.71 × 5 = 4,118.59 a week in the bathroom 4,118.59 × 52 = 214,166.68 a year for 17.5 hours spent in the bathroom. The average Walmart employee makes 34,112 a year at 16.50. The CEO of Walmart makes 6x what his workers make in a year IN THE BATHROOM