Antiwork

I am currently a postdoc at an R1 university in the southeast (don't want to get too specific on locale). Before this, I was a term biologist with the federal government, the office was so mismanaged and toxic that I quit after a year. And I am grateful to my graduate advisor for bringing me back to be a postdoc, since I was seriously becoming suicidal in my govt. job. Now, my university likes to boast about how robust our STEM research labs are. We have some internationally respected PIs. But like most universities, they are relying more and more on adjuncts rather than offering tenure-track positions. These adjuncts earn slightly more than a graduate student stipend. I'm in the biological sciences, and they have been advertising for an adjunct to take over the physiology courses – PhD required. It has been vacant for several years. They offered it to…

Just got out of a company leadership meeting in which we were told not to take people’s “excuses” when they call out. He donned a whiny voice and imitated them, saying “I’m sick!” or “My Mom’s in the hospital!” or “I need a mental health day!” He then yelled “I’M SICK OF THE EXCUSES!” Basically told us we need to guilt people into coming into work even when they can’t or shouldn’t, and make it their responsibility to find someone to cover their shift. It was so fucking cringe. I had to stop myself from unmuting and saying “maybe if we paid people more than $8/hr, they’d want to come to work.” The icing on the cake is that right before the meeting, he sent out an email asking us to write about how we “honor God’s creation” through our work, with a deadline. I actually love my job overall,…

I work at a homeless shelter as a cook and I make lunch and dinner. Someone else does breakfast. Apparently the last cook didn't put much effort into it because when I started making meals my boss was like ??? you're making that homemade? You know how to make X? I thought it was weird cause like why else would I apply for a cooking position if I didn't know how to cook. But then one day I made enchiladas and she was like “well now you're just spoiling them haha” I was like huh?? I'm spoiling the homeless people? I thought it was so weird and rude but I didn't say anything I just kind of said “oh yea I just wanted to make them today.” Such a weird lady

Trying to figure out how im going to word my email. I have an indeed profile to keep a pulse on how pay is trending for my profession. Today my HR department sent me an invitation to apply for the same job I have now, thing is the pay offered for new hires is a substantial amount higher than i currently work for. I don't think they realized it was me as i have a very generic name. Now i just need to figure out how to format my 'request' for that increase.

Hey everyone. Don’t know if you remember me, but I’m the person (23F – assistant) who posted about their coworker (60’sF – paralegal) who started tracking my comings and going’s from the office. I ended up deleting the post because it gained a lot of traction, but in it, I mentioned how this had started after I brought it to my boss’ attention that she was pushing work onto me and it was started to seriously affect the sustainability of our team. Sorry if this is off-topic for the sub. If it doesn’t follow the rules, I’ll delete the post. Many of you told me that I should take time off and let her deal with things on her own. In the comments, I had mentioned how I actually had planned to be gone a half-week later that month. I ended up taking two extra days off, meaning I was…

I just saw one about getting a non predatory loan for a house because they were in the army. It’s like the fucked up real life equivalent of squid games. You either die or you can afford a house maybe.