Antiwork

I’m moving to a new team at work, which comes with a 10% raise. The catch however, is that this new team is in another office which is further away and requires me to get a train ticket, parking at the station, and a bus pass. If I’m abiding by my office’s 3-days-in-per-week guidelines, I will be spending more than I am gaining from this raise. I currently don’t make enough to move out of my parents’ house, and this is only going to slow things down in that regard. I want to talk to my boss/ HR about this, does anyone have any advice as to what I should do? I’m working in the UK by the way, if that makes any difference.

I am taking a step towards being a better mother, wife, and human being by quitting a job that drains me. I am taking a 20k pay cut but I am reclaiming my life. I'm nervous what my boss will say because I don't have a replacement or anyone that can take over my work and I am newer to the company. Regardless of my bosses reaction or retaliation, I just can't do this anymore. I want my life back.

In Denmark you’re by law entitled to 5 weeks of fully paid vacation when working full time. For the most part this is pretty straight forward. However, if part of your pay is commission based, this is a little more tricky. For simplicity I have a base pay of 20.000 DKK and commission of 20.000 DKK on an average month, equaling 40.000 DKK. However, during vacation time, we were only being paid our base pay, and no compensation for the lost commission due to being away on vacation. For those of you thinking “this is not a big deal” – if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, you literally cannot afford to take vacation, due to missing out on the commission. Not a single soul would want to work here, if it wasn’t for the commission. Last year a ruling in one of Denmarks courts set the precedent that commission based…

My children's public schools have several rules that just feel like the goal is to make them obedient workers. One kid is in 3rd grade in a gifted program where if you get “three strikes” for tardies and then you are sent out of the gifted program permanently on your third strike. The only acceptable excuses are personal illness in the student or doctor appointments for the student. She's been late twice now, once was literally 30 seconds, and both times were my fault associated with me being sick. The school doesn't care – unexcused. So now I have to wake up my 8 year old now an extra half hour early, at 5:15am, to make sure there's no chance she's late again. My other child is in kindergarten at a different school and they straight up send kids home if they are out of uniform (e.g., have the wrong…

I'm going to lose my mind. I know I'm going to get a lot of hate because I've put my son and I in this situation by having him, but I was 18 at the time and in love. I was pressured by my boyfriend's mother to keep my baby because of her conservative beliefs. I know now that this was a load of fucking shit but I was still a child myself and terrified so I had listened to the woman telling me I would be disowned from her family and sent to hell if I got an abortion. We lived with her at the time and my boyfriend was only making 8 dollars an hour, so I had nowhere else to go. I thought that we would end up just staying with them but after I had my son she turned even more unbearable to live with and…