Antiwork

So my boss asks me if I'd like to take on a big project for a raise. I expressed interest, but said I would need more info. He then pulls me into a meeting and announces that I'm the lead on it. When I told him afterwards that I thought I would have time to think about it, and asked for more details, I was basically treated as ungrateful and yelled at. “You're getting a raise for this, it's not a big lift, etc.” He still wasn't able to give me more details so I could gauge if I could handle the extra work load, and he was so angry that I ended up crying a bunch and losing sleep. When my contracting company officially offered me the promotion, I raised concerns about not having details about the project, that it might be too much to handle, and how I…

I'm a bartender who is working on getting my Master's Degree. I work at night. The bar I work at closes at 3 am and I usually don't get out until 5 am, but I actually really like my job. At the very beginning of my program, I noticed that quite a few of my classmates just don't have jobs. They are full-time students and that's awesome for them, I guess. Even more of my classmates have on-campus jobs that follow pretty regular business hours. Great. The recent trouble has arisen from having to do a group project. I communicated to my teammates about my schedule, and I always let them know when I'm going to have my portion of the work done. I'm never late, and my work is always A-material. Over the weekend, my teammates woke me up by spamming me about my portion of the group project,…

In 2011 I started at a company I’ll call Beyond Bed and Bath in the USA. It was the regional office so the managers working out of this store oversaw not only our store, but were the bosses of all the store managers for hundreds of miles in every direction. A few times a year those managers would all come in to visit and attend whatever new training session corporate deemed important that quarter. A few months after I started a new employee, John, was hired to my department. On his second day he was tidying up the store in his department as he was supposed to. The manager training session took a break, so some of the managers decided to stretch their legs. Our store was set up as a loop. Walk in the front door and a single aisle, right in from of you, would take you through…

I am currently job searching because I do not make enough money to save a dollar, let alone thrive. I found this job this morning that was remote work from home and I applied immediately, I don't want to be AT work when I can work AT home. The interviewer emailed me to set up a zoom meeting at 3pm today, which works because that's when I leave work, so I said yeah that works. Come 3pm and I join the zoom meeting to see over 250 people in the meeting. Fuck. That. Jazz. I told the interviewer to go fuck herself and that each and everyone of us deserves more respect than whatever slap in the face she prepared for us.

Yesterday was women's day, as part of the HRs BS rules, each department head had to give their female employee a rose and a chocolate sent from the HR. My boss handed it to me and my worker and shook hands with us. When he did, he clenched my hands very tightly and looked my straight into my eyes. I said thank you sir, but he wouldn't let go. I told him that the hand shake is actually hurting me and he responded with a “you need to be stronger” and didn't let go for a good couple of seconds. My hand and my wrist hurts. And I am furious. It's not about the pain in my hand but the audacity with which he thought he could actually fucking do that. I don't feel safe around this man. Today it was an aggressive handshake, tomorrow he could beat me up…

I cannot think of a SINGLE job that couldn't be fixed by this. I'm so FUCKING TIRED of employers covering shit with glitter and calling it “fast paced”. This is not face paced, you're just understaffed and don't care.