Antiwork

This might be the wrong sub to ask this question but anyway. I want to really understand , is making it big in the corporate world worth the grind. I see VPs and Partners at big firms having terrible personal lives but are living a lifestyle that some can only dream of and seem to be enjoying it. There is an inherent desire in every human to achieve more and make it big in any field. People who have seen corporate success and left it for something else, please tell me . I am sure no one is born with a desire to make it big in the corporate world. Kids in early days are more interested in sports, arts etc. But from middle and high school, we are fed this idea that making it big in the corporates can give you everything you desire. Tough question but I want…

I started a new job 2 weeks ago, taking a massive pay cut but with more possibility of upward mobility. I'm now making $1 over minimum wage but my boss apparently refuses to pay overtime. Without getting into details, this job requires my coworkers and I to handle issues immediately as they come in, whether after hours, on weekends, etc. So far, OT hasn't been too overwhelming, but I'm not in the business of working for free (I will begin tracking my exact OT this week for more accurate data). However, I worked marginal OT every day so far including the weekend, as we are required to be on-call and have our work e-mail notifications on our phones 24/7 (though the boss seems not to work much after hours herself). I haven't approached my boss to talk about this, but my co-workers say that she has refused them overtime thus…

Yes, this is extreme, but the constant depression and anxiety that attending college has caused me is too much. I’m doing this all for a measly paycheck after graduation. I don’t “dream” to be an engineer, or an astronaut, or anything. I just want to pet my therapy dog, smoke medical weed for my chronic pain, go tanning, read, watch Netflix, sing. I literally cannot imagine a life where I have to get out of bed at 7am every morning and work until it’s dark out for 50 years.

She works at a Smoothie shop and gets 11/hr (after making 10 for 6 months). There is a tip jar sitting on the counter that they don't get at the end of the night. She doesn't know any better bless her heart, I told her that the employees are supposed to get the tips not the bosses. I told her if your low pay wasn't enough, you have to leave now. Instead she went back in and asked about it, and her boss told her they get their tips in bonuses at the end of every year. I got her to ask a coworker how much this bonus is, and she said it was $200. $200?!? I know people don't throw tips out left and right at a smoothie place, but the gf says there is normally about $20-30 in the jar a night. Thats about $5 a person, over…