Antiwork

It's been a year since I got the email informing me that it was time to return to the office, to which I replied “No thanks” and what a ride it's been. First HR told me it wasn't optional, I was to come back immediately and in a few months they might be able to make me a temporary 2 day a week WFH arrangement and I said “If I have nothing to do in the office, I won't be coming in”. Then they started with the threats, “This doesn't reflect well on you”, “Team players are willing to work with us”, “You have to give us something”, before they went for the big one and said that “Your contract may not be renewed” if I didn't start coming in. I called their bluff of course. Contract renewal time came around and I got myself a nice 50% raise plus…

I am a project manager for an IT company. It is a small company less than 50 employees and half of them live all across the USA. I have loved working with my programming team and building out projects. I've been watching the great resignation take place and I know why. We are all burned out. They don't understand that we are overworked and exhausted. I had worked a deal to transfer out of Project Management and into another department at the company. Less hours and a ton less of responsibilities. Well I cannot make it to the agreed date for my transition which is another 8 weeks due to the stress and the negative affects on me. I am 4 weeks in already from when I started this process. ​ I sent an email that I was completely stressed out and it is affecting me physically, mentally, etc. I…