Antiwork

I'm currently in a department that has been decimated by resignation and am managing around 3 times the expected work load. My boss head is FIRMLY in the sand about our department crumbling. Funnily enough my lone team mate and I are falling behind on our work and the boss had noticed this. What does he come up with? “I'm trying to figure out why you're falling behind because employee name used to do this workload plus more (named all tasks) and we never had an issue. I'm not sure what's happened as we haven't grown that much in twelve months (referring to portfolio size). Is it processes or training that we need to work on? ” mind you thus is about the 5th time in 3 weeks that he's used this line. No accountability for the staff shortage, no offer for reassurance at all on how the future looks…

I've found myself in a tricky situation at work. I work in the natural resources industry and last year finally landed what I thought would be my dream job, and even beat out over 130 other candidates. The job is not a dream. My department has had turnover after turnover and is basically a revolving door. The person doing my job before me had already quit by the time I started and left things a mess. My training consisted of “here's the server location of things you should read”. My benefits were 2 months late to start. What I am struggling with the most is this job is not as advertised. I went to school for 4 years for a specific area of study, was told I'd be using that knowledge and skill sets, and it is absolutely not true. The job is not going well due to being so…

I told my manager I didn’t respect them and I got fired.

I’ve been there for 11 months, love the job, love the people, we all have genuinely gotten tight as friends and love working together. About five months ago, we hire a new VPM to run our team, and she is essentially an absentee parent, canceling zoom meetings while we are all in the waiting room, rescheduling last minute, triple booking herself. Super distracted on calls, eating, doing chores around the house, not leading meetings. Not once did she actually say “how are you, company veterans, tell me the state of the department how things are going“, never actually talked to us to read the room. No one could get meetings with her. This is a very tightknit company and this is super out of the norm. We’ve been shouting into the void for months that the way we are doing commercial production is really inefficient in marketing and need to…

I held a job since 17, and now that I’m 38 with an adult daughter, I have zero motivation to work. I am 9 months in an 18 month contract gig and told my manager last week, I didn’t think the job was a good fit and my skillset is best suited elsewhere. I’m interviewing other places but fear my sentiment around not truly wanting to work would follow me everywhere I go.

Dear employers / those that say there is a labor shortage – Let's be honest with ourselves. There is no ” labor shortage “. There are just as many people now as there has ever been. There are not more jobs suddenly needing to be filled. No, what's going on is people are f'n TIRED of working a job that paid $12 an hour in 2005 in 2022 for $12 an hour. People are f'n TIRED of working themselves to the bone for pennies. People are f'n TIRED and PISSED that they went to college for 4+years to get an education for you to offer them $12 an hour with their qualifications (and on your stupid resume a 4 year degree is a must!) . People are f'n PISSED they were pretty much forced / told / coerced into going into college (“if you don't get a higher education you…

When I was in university, I got a job through a friend at a bagel shop. It was the absolute worst. I came in for the interview and the first thing the owner said to me was “I don’t want a guy working here, but no women applied, so I’ll give you a shot.” The next day I come in and it’s the breakfast rush. Nobody trained me and the owner is just yelling at me to be faster. A bagel caught on fire in the toaster, so naturally i unplugged it. Apparently that’s what you’re not supposed to do, so the owner is berating me for that while I’m scrambling to help customers. The whole time I worked there nobody gave me any training, and I spent most of the time just trying to find where things were. We close on Sunday afternoon at 4, and we were slow,…