Antiwork

They said they liked me a lot during the whole process and want to keep a “relationship” (?), but I guess not too much that they wanna hire me. Maybe silly of me to assume I got it just because I passed all previous interviews, but damn. I hate this feeling.

I don't really know what else to say. Every day I go to work, I feel like I've already been stabbed, multiple times, and every day there's just more twisting of the knives. I'm so depressed that it's embarrassing. Sometimes I wish people knew, because maybe they would let me wait out my time until I get transferred. But I know that no one there would care. My boss tells us in individual meetings where we're criticized, that she just wants us to be happy. Then why does she not give a crap when people are wasting away in front of her? I'm starting to doubt my intelligence. Because every day, the person in the position above mine treats me like a baby. And that I'm not even capable of doing anything correctly. Every day I feel like a waste. I used to be smart, and confident in my intelligence…

Just found out I did not get a job so I reached out to get more info as to why. The position was for 50-70K salary with a weighted bonus system. Basically, you had to make 3x more than your getting paid, then you get 15% of rollover profit; plus there was a rolling on-call. Never having a salary myself, I was very confused about this odd system, but also excited to make 10-20k more than I am now. Basically I found out a bunch of info in Round 1, and didn't immediately have questions. In Round 2 I preformed the pony dance quickly, and had lots of time left over for questions. Naturally I asked many, mostly about how the pay works. They made it clear my ability to automate tasks with was very valuable, so one such was “If I write a script and track the time saved…

24 hr shifts, rural EMS. Employer informed us that we are paid $26 CAD/hr for 18 hrs of the shift, with a rate of $14/hr for the remaining 6 hrs, as we typically sleep during that time (but can still get a call.) Seemed reasonable enough to me. Well, after spending an hour breaking down our very complicated paystubs, I found that they are paying us $3.50/hr for 14 hours of our 24 hr shift, with 10 hrs regular rate. Deductions are absolutely unreasonable too. Funny enough, the 12 hr shifts only pay $3 less than the 24 hr shifts. But few stations offer 12hr shifts. Contacted HR, confirmed that this is correct, and promptly found a better, lower stress job in the mountains with a 35% wage increase. Screw em.

So I work in your favorite crappy grocery store. Been there almost 8 years now. Watched it rapidly decline over the past 7 years. One of my coworkers ranted and raved out how terrible all of our new hires were. (Some of them are kind of bad but not the point). So to me and another employee, he started ranting about the business he used to run back in the day and how great it was. He then laid out the real stuff. “Back when I ran that store, if you only got scheduled 40 hours, you thought you were in trouble. We told our employees there wasn't a raise. If you wanted money you work overtime. And we had a great crew because we treated the new hires like shit (his words not mine) until we only got the best that wanted to work. And most of them were…

Thank you to this sub! I quit a job that was killing me to find my happiness. I now have the courage to tell people what I’m looking for and what I can offer them. I just started working for myself and though I’m not up to what I was making yet, I’m so much happier and less stressed. So thank you antiwork for giving me hope that I can find my happiness and that I can accept myself and what I can give instead of feeling guilt for not giving enough to my work.

Had an old customer reach out today wanting to work with us again because the new cheaper company they went with can’t provide staff (hiring issues). Duh they can’t- the reason we are more expensive (still reasonable/cheaper than a lot of our competitors) is because we pay a higher rate to our staff. The kicker is this customer is trying to get me to price match the other company and acting like they are really giving me an opportunity to win them back as a customer. I honestly don’t think they see the connection between the cheaper cost and the inability to hire staff.

I know I'm not the only one who has triggered responses to certain things that remind us of a traumatic work experience. There are so many shitty and abusive jobs out there, I'm sure “Employment trauma” has to be a growing issue.