Antiwork

I’m sick and tired of seeing/hearing things like “join our team” or “our team at _____” or “our teammates” STFU. I am not your teammate. You are not my team. You certainly don’t care about me. And I do not care about you.

Near 30 yo and working a job that is soul sucking. Constantly short staffed because we get paid dog shit and are not allowed to get raises (we're told this when were hired). We're so short staffed that they're paying temp workers and are paying them 10+ more dollars to sit there and greet people while I make below a living wage. I have four months left until I'm done with college and I can look for another job but these last semesters have been very time consuming and I feel like I need to take more time to focus on my studies. My parents told me I can quit and they'd support me until graduation but I'd have to be careful since I won't have health insurance. I really can't pass up a support system like that, they're the best… so I'm writing up my two week notice. I…

Yesterday I informed my boss that I was resigning, and he didn’t take it too well My boss is a menace for a few reasons: 1) he sends us to attend meetings that he’s supposed to attend while saying he has more important stuff to attend to, then claiming it’s good exposure for us. The meetings are often with other team managers so we are out of our depth. 2) he forces our team to be working on office throughout the pandemic, while he works from home since the start of the pandemic 3) we often receive sarcastic remarks from him over work matters, and those remarks are personal at times and affect the team morale 4) he doesn’t know what the team actually does and he is just a messenger to direct work to us. Every issue relating work – he does not know how to handle 5) he…

Just as it says. No matter how hard I try I get shitted on. I'm done. I regret bringing kids into this nightmare.

I mean, can you really blame them? I mean, just decades ago people drank at work all the time, in all kinds of work, and they might have been mentally healthier for it. Edit: I've seen factories and warehouses where substance abuse is so common that management has no choice but to look the other way or else they won't have enough of a workforce left to run the facility.