Antiwork

My boss is demanding and will occasionally throw me under the bus or blame me for things that they overlooked. I thought it was fine, that I was their assistant and that's the way it goes sometimes. I thought I could tough it out. My job was mostly good, only occasionally bad! But it all blew up last week. My boss threw a temper tantrum like a child and stopped cc'ing me on emails after an issue that happened that wasn't my fault. After I realized this, I went to their office to talk about the issue asked them why I was off their emails. They told me they were too mad to talk to me and dismissed me. I later saw my GM and my boss in a closed door meeting with another higher ranking employee. I thought these actions pointed to me being fired or being dismissed from…

So I worked a job I loved for 2.5 years but I finally decided to leave because they just didn’t want to pay me enough for what I did. At the end of January I got a job working private security and it was alright but I didn’t love it. The money is slightly better but not by much. Mid February they lost their major contract and I got furloughed but now I’m back and things have gotten somewhat worse. Before I was making only slightly more money but I was closer to home. Now I’m having to drive significantly further and they want to pay me the same. Looking for a different job but I wanted to vent. I follow this sub ironically as a libertarian so I don’t always agree with posts and comments but I understand why so many are upset. Inflation being what it is companies…

BACKGROUND: So we are a small family owned office company in the northeast. Family is simply top 3 positions just doing their useless micromanaging and using company space as their home office for personal amazon shopping and returns. The other 10 employees/interns actually run the company with a $110M revenue in 2021 and $30M net profit after all costs/expenses are taken into account. Non-family probably earns about $30K-$120K a year depending on their position (avg $50-60K), numbers including bonuses. Most middle management are Gen X who still believe they have to live for the company they work for. I believe most employees, specially at the bottom pay, deserve double their current salary for the amount of work/responsibilty taken to run the business and company would be forced to halt operations if the core staff left. HELP NEEDED: Employees take turns handling lunch duties which includes picking what to put on…

I tried to quit yesterday because of an extremely toxic (and honestly starting to cross over into abusive) workplace and my manager told me if I went through with it, she would mark me as unhireable. These are her exact words: “Quitting without notice will make you unhireable and will look REALLY bad if anyone calls for a reference from (where I work). You don't want to be labelled unrehireable. If an employer says that to another employer, they automatically lump that into you having stolen from your previous employer. Legally they can't go into detail about why you're unrehireable. That leaves it up to the potential new employer to fill in the blanks. You don't want that.” She kept pushing me to not quit and said she'll only let me go without being labeled unhireable if I consider that my notice. I'm confused. She said both “unhireable” and “unREhireable”.…

I migrated from India to Netherlands five months ago and been working for a “big” company. The interview and everything went well and after not hearing any feedback from the manager for five months he puts up an appointment to see me at office with HR and says my performance is really bad and I need to quit. I left a good paying job to migrate from Asia to Europe. I had to ask my wife to quit her job to come with me and my two kids are still trying to adapt to the schools here. This is such a shock to me and I don't know what to do.

It seems like it is much easier to get fired nowadays than it used to be. Do you guys agree? I remember when if you breathed into a mirror and it fogged up, you got the job. You had to do some really seriously negligent stuff in order to get fired. Now you need 8 years of experience just to get a minimum wage job, and you can get fired if you breathe the wrong way into that mirror. I think these companies have been living high on the hog for too many years now. They are used to having 600 applicants per job, and have begun to operating accordingly. Costs are astronomical now, and so much more is expected of workers as a result. Do you agree? Is it easier to get fired now than it used to be?