Antiwork

To preamble, I live in the US, in the great lakes region. I grew up in rust belt post-industrial car manufacturing cities. Think Detroit/Pontiac/Toledo/Cincy/Cleveland/Columbus/Erie/Pittsburgh/Lorain/Johnstown/Youngstown/Sandusky/Lordstown/Dayton/Marysville I havent lived in all of them but I have lived in all of them because Ive lived in one of them and more than one of them. IYKYK. Against my better judgement, or any iota of sanity I have left, I just offered 25k over asking on a 600k house (that my partner and I can only “afford” together after 6 years of saving, not having children, and a boatload of equity in what I would call a lovely but overpriced home that has increased in value since purchase more than I will earn after taxes for the next 10 years) and still AND STILL WE WERE OUTBID. We secured a bridge loan to avoid a sale contingent on our house, and fuck me someone…

I go into work the other day and before I'm clocked in I'm in a meeting with my boss and my boss's boss. I know I should have clocked in. Anyways I'm being told there is going to be an investigation with me because some people in the office said I said something racist to my friend who is Hispanic. First I would never. They tell me after this investigation is done and they find that I did say this racist thing you will be fired. I was in shock. If it matters I'm a White Female. Someone in my office has been trying to get me in trouble/fired for a few weeks now. I was getting in trouble for the smallest things and this one finally broke me. See I call people my little beans it means I find them sweet and cute. Someone took me saying the word…

Went on linked in and got a message from a CEO of a construction company. Said he loved my profile and to please apply for a job that was lower then I am looking or qualified for. Was called for an interview and then learned that they are, “a church masquerading as a construction company …”. Went really well and told my wife about that and she laughed that's not you… They asked what my salary expectations were in another call and I told them 80-90 is what linked in and showed and I'm definitely worth the 90. The hr person explained that was a mistake and offered me 70. I told them no thank you let's get this cleared up. Instead of a call, I get an email the next day saying they are not interested now and the subject said, disposition… Lol

Gave my two week notice on Monday morning. Cuz I thought that was the right thing to do (i.e. transition my accounts to a teammate; clear out my queue; etc). Senior Manager came to me at noon, ” you can just leave now. please sign this.” Should've known better

After a long life of getting bent over by pretty much everyone i've worked for i can finally say im done. As a child i worked doing hay from 10-15 years old at a horse farm owned by one of the richest families in town. At 12 years old 3 friends and I broke a record and did 2650 bales in a day , the original record was set at 2000 by 8 adults. I made 56 dollars that day and almost died of heatstroke from working so hard no bonus, nothing. Fastforward a few years I get a job laying conduit for verizon, national grid, eversource, and westernmass electric. Decent paying job at the time, but some of job sites were 3-4 hours away and the boss did one way pay so i would lose out on alot of money. I quit that job and started doing contractor work…

I asked to be paid 80% of what the owners get paid for the same work and they ignored me and still won't fix any of my IT issues. Guess I won't be covering every holiday shift for them for the current 50% rate. By asses.

I'm beyond livid right now. Here's the gist of what's happening: during open enrollment last year, I checked prices for healthcare with my company and it was more expensive than my current insurance so I didn't go through with it. When I got my “confirmation of benefits”, healthcare wasn't listed. Imagine my surprise when I get my first paycheck in January and they've taken out $124 for healthcare. Apparently since my information was in the system they just went ahead and signed me up for it. I've been trying since then to get it removed and have been dealing with endless back and forth with our Benefits department. Today i got the news that they aren't going to fix it because I didn't “remove it before the Jan 1st deadline.” I tried opening another appeal and they won't let me. I tried escalating the issue and they refused to escalate…