Antiwork

My wife’s boss just texted that she has not yet completed the anonymous survey about management. “How do you know I didn’t answer?” “Each survey has a time stamp and each submitted name has a time stamp. Yours is the only name without a survey and time stamp” “So these aren’t really anonymous then eh?”

About 25 years ago, I applied for a job with “Dr Disk” on the Gold Coast, Australia. I already had 4 years of IT Service Desk/Tech room experience as well as honors in one of the few computing colleges that existed at that time. The job was mobile computer service to both companies and home users. The job was offered at $40k/year and included a car, with the only requirement being having the experience needed but Microsoft Certification Preferred. I was only 21 at the time, and arrived at the interview with the owner. The office was nice and the tech area was a bit cramped, but we sat down to talk about the job and it all seemed pretty positive. He then asked if I was ok with going to a few sites with him to see if I would fit in. During the day, we went to 3…

I have been working at this company for over 2 years. I asked for $5,000 more. The best they could come up with is $2,000 more potentially after 6 months. So I then went out and got a different job offer offering $7,000 more. I guess you can say I won't be sticking around long.

I handed in my 1 month notice last week. Boss is upset that I didn’t take a counteroffer matching the money (15% raise).l but with HUGE additional responsibilities. I shrug it off, and actually put in some crazy hard work this past week. Boss called me in today ‘How come you are buzzing this past week and surpassing expectations left right and centre?’ Bitch because I’m happy, someone else is going to pay me what I’m worth and you guys have suddenly realised what I’m worth too. You turned me down for promotion the last 2 years’ Fuck them, I’m out.

This morning I received a call from my work place. A woman informed me that I had an old paycheck to collect. She went on to detail that she was the new manager, and that she OPENED MY MAIL to see if it was an “active” check (it is). This seems highly inappropriate and possibly illegal. I feel like if she was that concerned about the check, she could have called me or confirmed with payroll? I don’t feel comfortable at the prospect of working with her in the future. Opening my mail feels like a major boundary violation. I’m not sure what to do going forward- I’ve called HR and left a message about what happened, but am skeptical anything will actually happen. Thoughts?