Antiwork

Hope this makes sense. I had to go on Short Term Disability leave for a little while. During this time, employer did not pay me. I am still working with the 3rd party company that handles my claim to get it approved per my healthcare providers. However i plan to resign and just focus on my health. If i resign before STD approval, can i still receive pay? As FT employee i am eligible for partial pay once approved. Thank you all for your generosity.

Please explain like I’m five. Everyday I see something posted here and then comments saying this isn’t true antiwork so I’m confused. Now I ask: What are your goals? What do you want others to know? What is contributing to the miscommunication/misdirection of this sub? And how could we do better? Thank you for helping me

It's been more than 6 months since I had sudden and very severe health issues (I couldn't walk or touch hard surfaces with my right hand, was in pain constantly – suspect of MS neurological disorder) while I was looking for a new job. Once I stabilized and started to see some recovery I resumed my job search, but I needed something for 4hrs/day. No company was willing to offer work like that, and talking about my situation in hopes of finding something that would allow me to work more hours if and as I got better only made them avoid me like the plague. So even though my field (IT, Web Dev, Front End, Web Apps – 9+ years experience, Romania based) is in high demand I got nothing for months, until a company looking to hire someone part-time with my skills came my way, but they only offered…

Currently, I work as a custodian at a elementary school. I work the second shift and only have to deal with the first shift custodian for roughly an hour and a half… which is about an hour, twenty-nine minutes, and fifty seconds too long. I can't stand this woman. She leaves these passive-aggressive notes all the time. She gets bent out of shape if I so much as move a clipboard from one spot on the our desk to another… still on the desk, or move anything in the mini-fridge just to make room for my energy drinks… and apparently it's her fridge, she made sure I knew that with a note written on bright neon card stock taped to the fridge door. She's a… special kind of petty. I actually like this job. It's far better than the one I recently quit after four year (that's a whole other…

This happened almost 2 years ago, but I'm still salty. After spending half of 2019 unemployed, I landed a contract (corporate side) position one of the major tech companies (A–N). It started on March 16th, 2020 which was the week America essentially shut down. I went to the corporate office on a Monday to pick up my laptop/badge and never had to go into the office again. Learned everything remotely and initially supported a team of 3. In May, they told me I'm going to be supporting a dozen more people and this was crunch time since it was 'intern season'. Working until 11 pm wasn't unusual; I would see emails from coworkers around the clock. For the next 6 weeks, I put in over 40 hours each week, NEVER took a day off except for the 'given' holidays, which weren't paid as a contractor, but stupidly didn't ask for…

For context I’m transferring from one department to another in the same store. One of the problems of working in my current department is that I don’t trust my boss and She has a lot of narcissistic traits. My old boss decided to tell my new boss that I am a “wanderer” and then I wander to the other side of the store to talk to my boyfriend even though my new boss works with my boyfriend every day and knows that I don’t visit him unless I’m on my break. I don’t know why she would flat out lie like that but I’m very upset.

My medications cost over $3000 a month without insurance so I kind of have to have it through work as marketplace prices are ridiculous. Good rx brings it down to about $2000. I quit my job in healthcare due to insane burnout and interviewed for a new job. I told them in the interview I would need to work full time so I could have benefits..they said I’d have to work a 3 week probation period before I could be switched. I’ve now worked here for 2 months and have asked about going full time at least 10 times. I keep being told “I’ll get it figured out” “just wait until tomorrow” “we will take care of you”..and nothing has changed. I’m making great money, but definitely mot enough to afford my medicine. My husband basically told me if I can’t get insurance then I need to find a new…

I recently decided to swap to careers and went to the world I never thought I would. Because I am posting on my main account ill play nice right now. I took this job since I working in tandem with it, they offered for me to leave my other organization and join on with theirs. I am supposed to work in an IT-style environment but it's mixed into education. What was promised/on my job description versus what I actually do is nothing close. Granted I am in a field where things change daily and we have to adapt for the sake of children. I feel as though I am easy to get along and I have solved many tech issues. Recently, I feel that every time I open my mouth to “work on a team” people get mad or their feelings get hurt because I asked questions. I don't understand…

Full disclosure: I work at a start up and one my goals for the year is to figure out how to differentiate my company as an amazing employer and to attract and retain talent. In addition to reading the industry “research” I want to understand what actually gets people excited about who they work for. In my fantasies, I don't work for “the man” (probably like all or most of you). However, real life requires me to have a job in order to eat, pay bills, and to generally do the things I enjoy. That doesn't, however, mean I have to work for a shitty employer. My question to all of you: In a world where you have to have a job to survive, what could an employer do/offer to make the thought of a 9 – 5 more appealing for you? For example – you get two job offers…

Update last post I have been mulling this over and I even called out on Tuesday, I had Monday and Wednesday off. The incident took place on Sunday. After careful consideration I realized, I have put too much effort into that job. I am behind on university assignments, I put my GPA in jeopardy and in the process stopped pursuing my love of photography because I gave that job my life. I am labeled part-time but regularly scheduled for 37-40 hours. They will give me 40 hour work weeks but then every 4th or 5th week give me 37 hours. The company policy is you are only grandfathered into full-time if you are given 40 hours for 8 weeks or more in a row. I put all my effort into that job and constantly produced numbers. Its a big box store so me not being there to get amazing numbers…