Antiwork

Employed for 7 years in the same company, I finally decided to move on. Main reason: the toxic behaviour of my boss. Yesterday, to a new employee she said: “I am the brain here and the one that pays the salary.” “If you see I have the headphones on, means I don't want to be disturbed”. “Please correct the text in our language, otherwise the client will know it was written from a foreigner.” It will be the biggest decision of my life as I am gonna be a parent soon. Luckily I have another contract already (I am not stupid) in a company that apparently treats us better. The tasks I will have are no on the same level but maybe my head and my health can “breath” a bit. Am I making the right choice?

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Before I start, I just want to say that I know the way I was treated is illegal where I live. But unfortunately as an immigrant there are not many ways I can challenge this that actually benefit me and don't cause me unreasonable stress during an already vulnerable time in my life. Just using this here to rant about it. So I'm an art teacher at some private schools in southern Germany. I'm also a trans woman. In the past few months I have been transitioning and have been basically out with everyone except for the schools I work at. Because I didn’t know how they would react, I came out first to my private students (which are a variety of ages) to see what would happen. Nobody had an issue with it, I get to be myself at work, yay. The issue came when I wrote the school…

The whole idea of working and peopling makes my anxious ass to have a diarrhea. I've been gathering information from people near me such as my cousin and its horrify me to deal with people, and i feel invalidated by everyone saying “how can you say you don't want to work you never been to any work before” should i really immerse myself to that idea just to make them shut up?

I've been working almost 5 years for a growing mom and pop building supply store in the rural south-eastern US. I started at the bottom in the yard at 8$ per hour. I was coming from a job making 17$ hour in construction for a really shitty boss and needed a job so I took what I could get. Over the 4.5 years I've fought tooth and nail for basic workers rights. They didn't have health insurance when I started, I forced them to by getting a job offer and using it as leverage around year 2. I've clawed my way to 18/hr plus a generous commission structure but if the owner had it his way I'd still be making 12/hr with no benefits despite me bringing in 1.5M in sales out of our 8M per year. I've worked a minimum of 45hr weeks the entire time, usually clearing 55+…