Antiwork

I can’t afford therapy that works for me right now and I lost my sister to a very traumatic death while I was working on a business trip out of state. Right before she passed away, I got promoted to a higher level position where I agreed to take on an account that has a lot of demands. It’s an unusual customer that we negotiated shit terms and conditions on a long term agreement and now whoever has the account is typically miserable. Now I’ve worked tirelessly to clean up this account while keeping up with the customer’s demands and I feel like can’t handle it anymore. I have about 3-4 small mental breakdowns throughout the week (luckily WFH) and I sense that I’m on the brink of huge mental breakdown. I feel like I can’t do anything beneficial to heal while I have work constantly hanging over my head.…

Ok, hear me out. Most companies do market research on a product to figure out how to fix the issues addressed in the bad reviews. This ultimately improves the product, manufacturing, and results in a happy customer. So, when they see millions of disgruntled workers, why doesn't some company take advantage and treat workers right with good pay? Ultimately good workers mean good product and happy customers. High turnover and employees who don't give two shits about your terrible company are not a good path for the future….right?

It’s amazing how big name companies won’t help out their workers when something devastating happens in front of them. Figured I’d share this and see if this is “normal.” Last year, one morning, two of my coworkers were near a man who suddenly collapsed, presumably a heart attack. Ambulance and fire department were called, and after arriving a few minutes after the call, and a while of trying CPR on the guy, he showed no signs of waking up. The vehicles left without their sirens on. I wasn’t there until I started my closing shift, so this is what I’ve gathered. The two coworkers who saw him and called EMS were understandably frazzled and taken aside to fill out witness reports or something of the like. I had thought, after hearing all this, that they would’ve closed the store or something for the day so that my coworkers could go…