Antiwork

Planning on calling out of work on Saturday but I’m nervous… just want some ideas on what to say!

My field is psychology, I want to be a therapist in the future During the pandemic I had a great job in my field but couldn’t stay due to health reason. Honestly being immune compromised and the stress of crisis counseling was so much it landed me in the hospital several times and lead to a few suicidal attempts I wasn’t able to maintain so I moved by in with my parents and got a job at a supermarket. I thought this was going to be temporary but here I am still there almost a year later. I haven’t even been able to save any money because even I make 12/hour im paying rent that exceeds my income Nothing is particularly stressful about my job. Being there is what’s killing me. The stress is causing symptoms I haven’t experienced since I had that crisis counselor job: headaches, dizziness, light headed…

Ever since working as a sales representative at my current job I’ve been very friendly with my manager. It’s the kind of workspace that encourages a friendly, almost family-like relationship with everyone. Especially seeing that she lives in the building and I’m always visiting her apartment. I’d often visit her office as well to talk to her about any & everything, ranging from personal issues to work related issues, and she would do the same. This has been going on for almost a year now. But recently things went downhill when we were talking about a situation where a co-worker would need to move out of a company apartment to facilitate ongoing work on our boss’s warehouse. However, that co-worker’s girlfriend had a baby a few days ago and I asked her if my boss gave him a heads up about the move. She said no, and I responded that…

I worked for a small company which I won’t disclose the industry for anonymity sake. I was hired to do “production and social media” for this business in which the owner did not disclose it would be a 1099 job in the interview. After I was hired they had me fill out a 1099 form and after saying I would need a couple days to look it over as I had never filed this type of form they assured me it was, “just for tax purposes” and “not to worry”. After I filed out the form and turned it in, they paid me via Venmo every two weeks for my work without taxes taken out. The work was used with their software, at one location with one person looking over me that I worked with. The hours I came in were determined by me but it was important I came…

hi everyone this might be a TLDR story so here it goes. I currently work at a summer camp and we have High School Apprentices, college apprentices and Area leads. We are so understaffed in college apprentices and workers who are over the age of 18 who can work full days 40+ hours a week that it's hard to keep 5/6 year olds in tact. 2 weeks ago i was running the tent by myself one day with a ratio of 1 staff to at least 50 or 60 kids in one tent. I am feeling so exhausted and feeling like it's hard to do my job. None of us are being paid overtime and in fact there are many more camp counselors who are considering quitting because of staff to child ratio and the lack of staff coverage for breaks and lunches. Some staff are even lucky if they…

I work at a grocery store as a CSR. Multiple times at this point managers I've had at the store have been chatting with others on the clock while standing around, communication with workers is very poor and they have a tendency to flake, and on top of all this I'm the one who gets yelled at like I'm a slacker for trying to prevent an asthma attack. Anyone else experience this or am I just nuts?

This was about 6 years ago, but it still hurts. Honestly haven't completely gotten over it. I worked for streaming video service. Trust me, you know it. It's a biggish brand, but didn't have the engineering resources it really needed. My job was analytics: I had to make sure we were tracking the video viewership correctly. For some reason I will never understand, the company hated analytics in general, which made my job incredibly difficult. However, we got a new CEO, and he started to turn things around. He brought in some new Vice Presidents he'd worked with previously. I wound up reporting to one of these new VPs, who I'm going to call Michael. Things were pretty good at first- he gave me a fair amount of leeway and I backed him up on some of his first initiatives. After a few months things began to fall apart in…