Antiwork

this isn’t a venting post, but more of a asking if anyone has anyone like this at their job type of question. i just started a new job at a retail store. they sell clothing, grocery, electronics, and home items. i was hired a week or so ago for electronics, and i’ve gone through orientation and training, the whole 9 yards. today though i was called to the home department, and requested to work there with someone. well that person left and finished their shift about an hour after someone called me over, so i went back to electronics. i then received a call to go to the back room where i was yelled at and told that my position is not electronics, and that i have been wandering over there on my own, wasting paid company time. i raised my voice and informed this person that not only have…

I don’t know how much longer I can do this, my whole life I fed into the bullshit capitalist ideals of work work work to maybe get ahead. I’ve been working regularly since I was 16, started working full time right after I college, did good and managed to secure two promotions in a 3 year span, got promoted to General Manager and thought things were so awesome but it didn’t take me long to realize that all my new title meant was that everything that went wrong was on my shoulders and that I have to sacrifice even more for just a little bit more pay. Did this for a few years and was growing more and more disillusioned and depressed. I eventually turned to drugs which led me down a rabbit hole but that entire time I was still working because now I had really expensive habits to…

I am livid and am taking to this sub to vent. I worked in low-level operations for this mega charter school network for 9 months in 2021 before I hit my breaking point working 70 hour weeks for a soulless, incompetent boss who lacked proper training to run a school. I was crying in closets, forced to work on weekends (outside of contracted hours), etc. Leaving was the right decision and now I have a much better job that I actually enjoy. Anyway, when I got my W-2s from this ex-employer this year, I noticed my wages were underreported and I reached out to their HR team. Turns out they misreported my earnings by $15k and issued me a new W-2C. I had an accountant look it over and he pointed out that there was nothing reported for local tax withholdings. I reached out to HR again, and they pretty…

I think about that seen when I think about what's going on with big oil…. well every mega company that's hording wealth inexplicably…. seems like everyone's preparing for a car crash none of us are aware of. Like in that other movie 2012 where they spend 3 years building giant arcs and selling seats to the super wealthy while the rest of us bicker and fight over equality and such… everything feels eerily unreal… I don't know whats coming next but I suspect it isn't going to be smol

So I am contracted to work for a branch of government and working from home has been so amazing. My contracting company has really shitty rules regarding when I can work. Normally, I can only work when my federal supervisor is working, and if my supervisor is off campus, I can’t go to work. With WFH in place, obviously I can work wherever I want, but only if my supervisor is also working that day. Now with the push to go back, I’ll have to go back into the office too. The problem is that I don’t live around the area anymore, so I’ll more than likely be forced to quit. This job wasn’t meant to be permanent anyway, more for recent college graduates. I’ll be going to grad school in the fall, but this means I’ll lose the income and health insurance I need for medication in the mean…