Antiwork

My husband and I work for the same company and they transitioned to remote work during COVID. It’s the slow time of year for our job and they are looking for ways to cut expenses (insurance claims adjuster firm). My husband is consistently listed as one of the top performers on his team. Over the past few days they have began having meetings with literally everyone in his department telling them that their performance is sub par and they have to come back to the office if they want to keep their jobs. A lot of people live out of state and simply can’t do it, like ourselves. They want to be able to keep a closer eye on people and also I think that they knew people wouldn’t be able to stop working remote so they would get to fire people and make others that stay work harder. Also,…

tl,dr – made an asshole supervisor look even more like an asshole to his boss and got away practically scot-free. Some backstory. About a year ago. I switched jobs. The pay is the same but the current job is easier. And I decided that I won't try to hard. Because in this line of work there is no carrier path at all. Not that I believed in an honest carrier improvement from the very bottom. What happened. The senior employees finally gathered enough evidence to organize my performance review. I knew that I will be forced to listen to some abusive asshole berating for every little problem I ever made and some didn't. So before the review I talked to HR, to my supervisor's boss. Figured what are my options and what they can use against me. Turns out it amounts to a month of mentoring with another guy from…

Idk if this is the right sub, but I want advice from people who feel the same as me about work stuff. My boss is a classic micromanager and now that we're back in the office, it's become completely unreasonable. He just sent an email that includes this: “It’s ok to listen to music while you work. It’s important that you only have one headphone/earbud on so that you can hear your phone or if someone approaches your desk. It’s ok if you need to occasionally check your mobile device, but this needs to be kept to a minimum. On this same note, we should not be watching non-work-related videos while we are working. I know that some people have them on as they want to listen to the video — if that’s the case, you can still listen while having your phone face down to lessen distractions.” I have…

This is more of a rant than anything else. I’ve been working as a full time contractor for over two years for this company. I started September 2019 and was finally hired on as a “Full Time Employee” this October. Mind you, I still worked 40 hours a week. I’ve had all the same responsibilities, if not more, than their actual employees. I’ve been pulled into special projects, training for different teams, and I’m even the SME (subject matter expert) for several different brands. I got this job right before Covid happened. I hadn’t planned on staying for very long, but then the world stopped and I was just grateful that I still had a job and survived several rounds of layoffs. We have monthly performance reviews and I have NEVER gotten a bad review. My managers have had nothing bad to say about my work. I have never had…

Would you stay at a job where 3 people are constantly on you and managing you. 3 Team lead support thinking they're now the new manager and telling what to do. In total 6 manager wannabe They all want to speak at the same time in the meeting. Deuces in a bit 🤞

Quitting with no notice means you say you quit the day of. Job abandonment means you just ghost them without a word. I worked at a Fortune 500 company and this guy from another department which I worked closely with just stopped showing up. Nobody knew what happened to him, he never quit, just vanished. Higher ups were so pissed and from what I was told they had to keep paying the dude for a number of days because he didn’t quit and he wasn’t fired right away so I think it benefitted him but can’t confirm. Hopefully it was just a ghosting and nothing terrible happened to him. Anybody have any experience with this? Maybe it’s beneficial to do if you work for huge companies but not a small business?

Hello I’m in college so I haven’t had much real world job experience, but the one office job I had was horrible. But I’m autistic so I thought it was just me. Once I made a joke about how I got a $0.04 raise, and the supervisor yelled at me in front of everyone bc I said that I got a raise and it’s not okay to talk about that with my coworkers. And I felt like shit about it for doing something she said was bad, but was also very confused. So now I know that I wasn’t in the wrong and it makes me feel better about myself and standing up for what I know is right. So thanks to everyone in this sub for teaching me about corporate bullshit!!

Given all of the spectacular budgets that have been shown on news outlets, I thought I’d share my actual one. Making 97.5k, as a single 26yo male living in a studio without splitting rent, my budget is the below: Rent: $1,700 Renter’s Insurance: $10 Car Payment: $330 Car Insurance: $140 Phone Bill: $150 Utilities: $60 (water covered by landlord and climate doesn’t get too hot or too cold most of the year) Internet: $70 Student Loans: $950 Subscriptions: $80 Food: $600 (groceries/eating out [which I don’t do often]) Gas: $120 Investment: $200 Entertainment: $250 Insurance: $100 (this is pre-tax and I pay for a dirt cheap insurance since I never go in. It will likely come back to haunt me given the medical system but oh well for now) 401k: $570 (pre-tax) Gross Monthly Income: $8,150 Pre-Tax Deductions: $670 Net Monthly Paycheck: $5,220 Total Spending: $4,660 (Amounts out of net…