Antiwork

I’m not going to jail. But I am leaving the company. My last day was supposed to be the 31st, but I got a new job opportunity and I emailed my bosses this morning to tell them my new last day would the 25th. Well, after work I got a call from a coworker asking if I was going to jail. Obviously I was very confused and said no. When I asked why she thought I was going to jail, she said that one of my bosses (supervisor, but not branch manager) was telling people I was leaving the company because I had to go to jail. I’m furious. I’ve been a top employee for almost 5 years. I gave them over a month heads up that I was leaving the company. I was nothing but cordial with my resignation and my exit interview. I don’t even know what to…

Hello all! I realize this is supposed to be anti-work, but I'm in real predicament with my current job. This job was a post covid job loss grab-whatever-I-could-get-with-a-decent-salary kind of thing. And while I thought this was temporary because I have loads of experience, we haven't recovered and I've had to stick. My job is absolutely working me to the bone, I'm talking 70 hour work weeks, nights, weekends. I'm salary and an ungodly amount of students rely on me – so while I'd love to fuck over the company, I would mostly be hurting them. They know this and exploit good people in tough situations – HR and management have been absolutely sinister. I've kept documentation, and despite having over a decade of great experience for decent companies (never leave a union job for the love of god), have not been able to find another job WHILE working for…