Antiwork

My grandfather in law passed away this past Sunday. I emailed my supervisor to let her know I would not be coming in on Monday to spend with family and Thursday and Friday for the funeral. Her response was “Oy. Do you have someone to cover you?” I ignored her. I work billing insurance claims, the work is not ground breaking in the slightest. She texted me on my personal phone on Monday to tell me to put my out of office so any emails would be forwarded to her. Fair enough. Then Thursday comes around. I’m at the morning service and I get another text from her. “So sorry to bother. Can you please forward me the email you sent to the case manager? The facility wants to follow up, thanks!” I am quitting on Friday. This isn’t the first time she has been disrespectful or crossed boundaries, but…

I have a good Union Steelworker job that is secure, has good benefits, pays well and has a well written collective bargaining agreement that protects me from quite a lot and I don't gotta grovel every year for a raise. I'm not really looking to leave. But out of habit, I'm always skimming Indeed for stuff that pays better. I been punching above my belt on some things, you never know, but I've also applied to a lot of garbage since last November. It was starting to really make me grind my teeth seeing many vague or zero salary listings to constantly skim past. I interview really well, I have a good resume and I am likable and easy to get along with and it shouldn't matter, but we know it sadly does… I'm young (early 30s), clean cut, Caucasian and male w/ wife and family. I'm an ideal demographic.…

My partner failed to fit in to the boys club, and talked about his feelings and ambitions at work. (The desire to move back into leadership in this massive company and utilize his experience and education) He’s been targeted ever since. Just got put on a PiP for made up issues that the manager refused to follow procedure with or even talk to him about. Called him after hours with no invite on the books to give him notice, even though there was zero negative feedback and amazing positive experience from high level people. He has 30 days. My partner has ridiculous experience, multiple degrees (doctorate level) and almost 20 years in the industry and took a lower role after the pandemic to make ends meet. At one of the leading companies in the industry. All issues listed In The performance improvement plan are made up. Literally. And none were…

So, my boss at my new workplace (I started slightly over a month ago) just gave me a warning for using my phone at work. I know how it sounds, but hear me out – there's literally nothing to do. I understand if there's work to do and I'm just slacking around on my phone, but no one gave me anything to do, and I even asked around with no results. When I told my boss this, he just said I should go ask other teams for work, but I feel like I've already gone above and beyond, and I'm pretty sure if I asked other teams I'd still be given no work. And isn't it on him for not giving me work to do? At this point, I'm not even sure why they hired me, they obviously don't need me. What should I do? Am I being entitled?

What's the best way to call them out on it without putting a target on my back? All salaried employees were paid at their new rate for the entire month of April but none of the hourly employees were and we did not receive back wages with our last check like we expected.

I ended up in a crappy job a few months ago. I’m currently looking for another one. I’m trying to avoid ending up in another shitty position. What questions do you normally ask the interviewer to help you decide if you want to work there and weed out toxic workplaces?