Antiwork

Not me sitting in the monthly meeting listening to the higher ups explain in completely reasonable voices that they partnered with a huge celebrity and thinking to myself, I can't figure out how to pay for groceries but I'm so glad you have a huge celebrity on the payroll. Big frustrated.

I work at a popular chain convenience store in a pretty shitty city, there's much worse for sure but lately we've been getting a lot of drugged out weirdos moving up from the worst part of town. We have to kick people out all of the time and even ban people when it gets too much. My boss banned someone on the spot for asking a female employee for a blowjob as an example. There's this one customer who just doesn't like me, I have no idea why he just doesn't. I'm friendly and am a fast and knowledgeable clerk. One day he called me “fucking stupid” for not seeing something when I was below the counter grabbing something for him and my coworker was paying attention and witnessed some light theft. I let it pass and continued to serve him under the assumption he was having a bad day…

I've been lurking around here for a while and I can't believe this just happened. Never thought I'd be in the mix of what y'all go through. Why would you offer me a raise to stay, then cancel my vacation? First off, being a gay man in IT, it's been hard to fight for a good pay, but I've made progress. Because of whats going on in the job sphere, I decided to start shopping around for jobs. After telling my boss about this, he offers me $10k additional (which I should've already been getting) to stay. Honestly I'm happy with this number and was planning on staying. ​ The BULLSHIT part which changed my mind is our team meeting this morning. He asks me to stay in the call a few minutes after our meeting ends and says: “this is totally unrelated to you looking around, but we're going…

I (26F) quit my last job in December due to mental health and the fact that the company was putting workers at risk during the spike in covid cases. Despite my age, I still live at home with my mom and grandma, for a few reasons. 1)it’s the most affordable option where we live, 2)they are both ill with chronic physical illness, and a third reason. They are both significantly immune compromised, and even being fully vaccinated, covid is a high risk, possible death sentence situation. I can barely live with myself now, I can only imagine the guilt that giving them covid would bring. I have had problems with mental health since my youth. Chronic and persisting despite multiple medications and years of multiple forms of therapy kind of mental illness. Working (in general, no specific job is the culprit) has made it so much worse. However, disability deemed…

So, last job I had we got paid every other Friday. Fine. Got a new job and they pay by the DATE. So instead of getting paid next Friday, I will get paid on Tuesday, the 31st. So you expect me to me at work consistently Monday-Friday, 9am to 5pm, but I don’t deserve a consistent paycheck?????? Fuck you. Edit: Yes, I understand that it’s “the same” dates every month. My point is, if my employer expects me to be consistent then my paycheck should be as well. I shouldn’t get paid Friday one week and then a Tuesday 2 weeks later.

Without warning. Without good reasons cause its a at will work state. ??? Thrown away like garbage. Jobs that are popularity contests where if you don’t conform you are discarded are the worst. Im an overqualified IT pro with over 20 years experience and I’m the only one THAT actually had a degree and I’m the one they throw away while other people trying to do technology are like former geography or music majors and shit. ? Omgwtfbbq? ALL of Western NC is shit for any tech jobs. Its even worse when you are stuck trying to live near family and cant just move away to somewhere better! Internet round here is so bad most wfh is a no. Soon to be fixed in my area after 12 damn long years but not soon enough! I need to work. I need food and prescriptions to fucking live for Christ sake!…

I literally hate my job. It pays somewhat well for my age and my responsibilities but I’m mentally and emotionally exhausted. I’ve been applying to other jobs but nothing. And I’ve been applying for weeks. I’m tired. I don’t like working for other people but I’m not one of those people who can just quit and wait for the next opportunity. That’s not secure to me. I literally get so depressed logging onto work every morning, it’s sickening. I need some motivation, a new opportunity, a pick me up. Because I feel like I’m losing myself. I’m college graduated but I’m not using my degree so I’m just working 9-5s until I can start my own business and live the life I want to live. I’m just not there yet. I just don’t know how long I can take this because I truly don’t desire to work for anyone else…

Im in my final year of university and was emailed to an interview with a Fortune 500 company via Microsoft teams. It felt like it went really well, she was very engaged she even starting talking about her husband and kids. After asking me all the what would you do questions, she started describing what the job entails and what I would be doing also mentioning you’ll be doing more than what’s listed on the job description. She asked me what my current school schedule is like and asked if I could still work full time in the fall which I said yes and I’ll be taking night classes for school. She told me training was on June 6 but I told her my summer school finishes on June 15 so I would be able to come in for training but not fully able to work until June 15. She…