Antiwork

To preface this- I started with a new company less than a year ago, and am facing the decision to be fired, quit, or suck it up at the expense of my mental health. I make 6 figures as a mid-level “manager” (no direct reports) in a WFH corporate environment. I have been in my line of work for 7 years, and prior to that, was a military officer for 6 years. At my current company, my day to day expectations and work far exceed what I expected when I joined, and what was explained to me by my predecessor. I work, on average, 14-16 hour days, and often am working weekends as well to try to stay on top of projects. The level of responsibility that I have is equivalent to that of 4 people and as such, I'm constantly drowning in work. I have a strong feeling that…

Remote Job There's a dude on the team that chats all day literally. He messaged me in private chat one day saying I should let him pick a request as I have done alot and he hasn't done much 🤯 What audacity! I didnt respond to him….you're paid to chat at work do that. I'm doing what they pay me to do. Then another day, he mentioned my base in the general chat where 18 people can read..right after a morningmeeting. Saying he noticed during the meeting that requests were dissapearing in the queue and that he saw that I uploaded something in the SharePoint during the meeting at 9.40. Mind you..meeting ended at 9.30. That ge feels somebody is stealing requests and hoarding it for later 🤯. So I called him out too..saying why has he taken it upon himself to monitor me and that requests could have been…

It’s hilarious. Over the last two years I’ve worked my ass off keeping this company alive, managing their technical systems. My coworker who built it all quit after seven long years of making this setup. He quit because the owners son was a dick and kept empire building. Slowly getting rid of the best devs who had a brain and might say no to him. So he left and it was all on me. I was a junior position at best. It was a lot to learn. Over the next year I threw things into overdrive and used every skill I had, and a whole lot I didn’t as I learned what was built, and was congratulated on keeping them afloat and staying with it. Eventually they brought in someone else to help me. Hey this is great. Except…. It wasn’t, really. It was because they hated me having so…

I'm 6″5″ and 35 years old, I weigh close to 300 pounds. Not exactly a small guy. I'm working at a manufacturing plant on concrete floors and we get some down time where everyone else just sits on a stool but apparently I'm not allowed to. My ankles were killing me after my first week. Now don't get me wrong, the pay is actually quite acceptable for how easy my job is so I'm gonna stick it through but that whole no sitting thing has me pretty miffed. So if I start to develop medical problems for following policies told to me by the owner, I'm getting a fat check right?

My boss got called out by multiple people including myself (I’m white) because a few POC coworkers were not feeling supported or respected. Two days later, she closed the store for three weeks to have an investigation and diversity training which is great, but we are now all unemployed and I’m sure she is going to pick and choose who she brings back. I just cannot believe that she would do this without talking to us about it as she’s “all about communication”. Now the staff is extra pissed and we are all broke as it is and now have to file for unemployment. We also don’t have insurance. I am just so livid that she would do this as she’s always been progressive and supportive and open to hearing us out. I guess it was just all performative. If anyone has advice I’d love to hear it but I’m…

The multi-billion dollar company I've been with 7 years busting my ass is refusing to pay out my $600 bonus because I transferred to another position IN THE SAME COMPANY five days before the end of the year! Now I'm expected to work hard in the new position for the same company that just proved they don't care to reward hard work.

I’m a month in at my new job, where I work front desk. A large part of my job is taking telephone inquiries, and upper management really emphasizes that I stick to my script when answering calls. The past couple of weekends, I’ve noticed multiple “spoof” calls that are clearly from upper management/ meant to assess how well I’m doing. Callers will purposefully repeat the same questions multiple times and will act very non-compliant/difficult. This past time, I received a call from my GM asking me to go over my script for him over the phone after him hearing in on a call that didn’t go according to his standards (in the middle of my shift :/) I honestly feel as if I’m being trolled/micromanaged. I know it’s technically legal for businesses to record sales calls and ask individuals to call in for quality assurance, but it’s becoming so exhausting.…

What are your plans for a mass revolt? What happens when people become so put-out by your system that they retaliate all together, and show up in person at your mansions? Do you have a plan of action for thousands of houseless individuals at their wits' end with nothing to lose, all banding together to storm your doors?? Are you so painfully unaware of the intense anger and desperation that your greed fuels? Are you not prepared for a massive, full-scale onslaught of angry people to show up at your palaces? One by one. All of you are going to pay the price for freezing and starving your fellow human beings to death. And it's not going to be through sanctions. And most of the people you starve have served in the military, so good luck getting them to protect you for $14 dollars an hour.