Antiwork

Wanted to bring some positivity here. I work for an enormous company (think Fortune 150) with 100k+ employees. My supervisor and boss told me when I let them know my son might be born early that “your health and the health of your wife and son are more important than quarterly reports”. I’m taking 6 weeks of fully paid paternity leave (in US so that’s actually pretty good for here as sad as that is) and they are totally fine with it. I’m super lucky to have the bosses I do and I appreciate it. I wish everyone had my kind of bosses, and there’s no reason they shouldn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I think everyone should get fully paid months and months of leave when having a baby and it should be universal but to support my family I’ll take what I can get I guess.

This was many years ago but I have never stopped hating the company and I’ve continued to dislike my old boss with a passion. I had started this job and found out I was pregnant. I got an abortion over the weekend in training and came to work like nothing was going on. I started to not like my boss in training and got disciplined for doodling during training, it would go on to emotionally be taxing ignoring peoples problems and persisting that the pay their checking accounts when their mortgage is due so doodling and being allowed to relax somewhat would’ve been better as a corporate environment. Oddly enough we did have a meeting where a coworker not in our training class would come to say how proud and enthusiastic about the company she was and how supportive the company was of gay people. Then some bankers came and…

“Hello, I noticed that I no longer have 3 day weekends (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) anymore. I cant understand my schedule being changed so drastically and not having my thoughts and feelings considered. I already requested my schedule return to 3 12 hour and 1 4 hour shift and was ignored/denied which I was fine with since I still had my 3 day weekends. I understand its for the needs of the unit but I need to consider myself as well and its unacceptable my schedule is constantly changed without my permission. I would like 1 of the 2 to be considered so I can have more satisfaction in my work. If I continue to work every other Friday I would like to at least work 3 12s and 1 4 hour or go back to having 3 day weekends. I will accept either of these but I cannot accept none…

Forgive the rant but it seemed like a healthy way to talk about the gangrenous thorn that is a student loan, currently stuck in my ass. So I like many folks, find myself in the “I'm graduated, being paid OK money, but life and loan payments are so expensive I'm drowning” boat. I pay about $520 a month for my student loans, and each time I make a payment I wanna smash my computer into tiny pieces from pure, unfiltered rage. Life would SO much easier without it, I mean it is a literal rent payment that vanishes into thin air every month and for what? Talking with people like my family makes me wanna stick a fork in my leg when their response to it in discussion is “well when I was your age I had to pay monthly on my car/house/boat/rocket ship” like goddamn…. how do you not…

I left my last place of employment abruptly due to a hostile work environment. First time in my life leaving a position without giving notice (well, gave same day and walked out), and also first time leaving without having something else already lined up. I'm currently job searching. I've been getting TONS of interviews. I've never felt more validated in my life and KNOW that I made the right decision. Here's my dilemma: I just received a very good offer at a company (Company #1) to do a job I actually didn't apply for; during the interview process they thought I might be a good fit for a similar job, so they had me do interviews for that position too. Offer is 2K less than the position I left, but there's a sign-on bonus and the benefits package is amazing. This company wants my response by Friday. However, there's another…

I work in a often stressful job for ridiculously low wages in Mississippi. (In mental health field. Only make 11/hr). I work back to back 12 hour shifts which usually go way over because my replacements often show up extremely late. I found out today I’m being expected to attend a class 2 hours after a 12 hour shift ends which is expected to last until 6 hours before my next shift at least. I already struggle to get enough sleep and have medical issues that contribute to that problem. I sent an email to get clarification about if this is really the expectation but haven’t heard back yet. There apparently isn’t a single law regarding this issue and an employer can legally require you to work 24/7 if they give you the legally required breaks. (Not that we ever get the legally required breaks but if I say something…