Antiwork

I started a new job about 3 weeks ago and since then I have not had a single weekend of peace because every Friday I come down with something. The first week we had a company lunch and a coworker tested positive for COVID-19 so I was in isolation. Last weekend it was diarrhea and this week it’s strep throat. Previous to my job, when I was only freelancing, I’d maybe get sick once every 2 years but this is insane. I highly suspect it’s due to my working environment or stressed cause by work. I’m in an office and the last few weeks have been really stressful and I have a lack of sleep now. I can’t keep this up through or my lifespan is going to be cut in half.

I am 28 and I am currently looking to quit my job and wanting to work from home. I have been working at my job for about 4 years now and I am underpaid and overworked. I hate being asked to do OT, or having my boss call me and moving me to another post to cover that is half way across the city, or being asked to work on weekends. Ever since the pandemic I have been looking for remote jobs to do since I get to work where I am most comfortable. Hell, even if they did ask me to do over time I am at least in my own city or I don't have a boss saying that I need to go half way across town to cover something. The problem is I have been doing mostly blue collar jobs and a lot of these jobs need…

I don't know if it's like this for everyone, but at my schools it was always disallowed to talk about our grades with each other. Either it was an unwritten rule or we would be punished for it. The reasoning was always that “it's impolite” and “makes kids feel stressed and embarassed”, but what if it's just a precursor to learning to not share your f-ing salary? It makes total sense This was the first post from my new “the American Education System is Fucked” series of posts on this sub. Hope you enjoyed!

In a polite way, I mean. I don't want to just say “Ah, $17 an hour is way too low, shove your offer up your bum” hahaa (although I'd love to say that…)

So about me. I am a 20/yo college student and I am currently working my second ever job. My first job was a retail job and I had to quit because of how much BS I had to deal with there. Now fast forward to now, I work at a hotel doing inventory. I basically make sure each floor of the hotel is stocked full of tissues, coffee bags and other hotel room accommodations. My bosses also make me do other jobs around the hotel like stripping rooms from their trash and dirty Lenin after they are left vacant, taking out trash, vacuuming lobby/mini library etc. Most recently, my bosses have made me do some simple office work as well like making excel sheets for inventory and asking for orders for things we are missing. I am being payed 13 an hour for this job and I live in florida.…

I am working between two companies, let's call them X and Y. X and Y are collaborating on a project and I'm the main person working on this project. I have 2 bosses from company X and 2 bosses from company Y. It is all good except for one of the bosses from company Y, let's call her Sarah. Sarah is a micromanager, she schedules me for big important presentations without checking if I have time to prepare for them. She also schedules me for meetings without consulting my availability. For example, once I was on a holiday and after I came back, it turns out she scheduled me for 9 meetings on my first week back with 2 of them on the first day. She didn't wait until I'm back to see my availability. I have a deadline for company X? She doesn't care. I have a dentist appointment?…

I've been in a out of jobs so much that the idea of working somewhere more than 5 years feels strange. I know people have done it in the past (otherwise why have 30/50/75 year retirement gifts?) but the idea of working in one place that long feels alien. Would anyone 50 and under nowadays work at one place that long?

Just got a new job, amazing, loved basically every part of it. However, I got sick with a really nasty cold and told the job I'd need at least the next two days off. They told me it was fine and to rest up and come back once I felt better. To my surprise, I come in and everyones really quiet, until I'm brought to the back and told I got fired for no call no showing. Even though I was sick, and communicated that. Love working in a capitalism country

I was a contractor working in a third-world country as an advisor to their military. It was a job that would never end because they refused to change. I had been in the position about 18 months and the overall contract had come up for bid. The company that I worked for didn't win the renewal. We all just moved to the new company. With a $5,000 bonus. Quite a few folks took the bonus, then resigned a few weeks later. The new company was not amused. But, there was nothing in the contract that mentioned a timeline or repayment. I already knew a couple of months earlier that I was going to change to a new contractor position in another country. But, I needed to keep my head down and push on. And I did. Some people started giving a two-week notice because contracting for US contracts is weird.…

I’ve had my fair share of shitty jobs with shitty bosses who suck your soul away expecting you to give up your life and it’s still not good enough. I swear with most of these jobs, people were coming and going and always leaving because the job just sucked so bad. And the bosses always complain that the employees are lazy or undisciplined and it’s always their fault. The job I have now is amazing. It’s also the bare minimum. I work good hours (not being manipulated into 14 hour shifts), I’m treated like a human and expected to make mistakes and when I do, it’s treated with grace. I make a living wage. My managers are friendly and understanding of me. It’s honestly the bare minimum, but the quality of my life has gone up so much compared to my last job. Employees there have all been there several…