Antiwork

Keeping it a little vague for privacy. I was one of those people who considered herself lucky to have a “cool” boss. She’d take me out to dinner after a successful project on her dime; comped travel to amazing locations as a business expense, and was always friendly — we talked like friends not employee and employer. Then I developed a permanent, non curable condition. I can still work but I need a few accommodations, basic stuff like if there’s heavy lifting, I need breaks. I’m not able bodied in the way I was before but I was ready to dive back into work to not leave our team hanging. She turned on me in a day. My performance reviews went from glowing to absolute shit. We went from laughing at work all day to her being furious at me for taking breaks (which were contractually entitled to). I learned…

Got a rather funny store. I used to work as a security guard for events or part time a few years ago. After finding a full time job, one of the managers decided to “fire” me when I cancelled a shift to start my job. Thinking nothing of it and brushing it off, I just told him so be it. A few years later these idiots decided to call me while on my full time job asking me to work a shift. Now, I will admit, I am not a nice guy when it comes to this kind of stuff and will gladly burn bridges. With that in mind, I basically snapped and swore at the poor guy, only to realize he was apparently new and just doing what he was asked to do. I felt bad for him only, but it was honestly great telling them in no uncertain…

So I have severe social anxiety and was pretty much a hermit after graduating high school. I was doing really bad mentally and quit a lot of jobs (with no notice) but I’m ready to get back into full time work. I have no friends or close family members that I can get to pretend to be references. I interviewed today for a warehouse job, it went well but the lady wants me to email her two references by the end of the day tomorrow. She wants a phone number. Its not a serious job or anything and I’m not a bad person I swear. I’ve heard people on here give references and I’ve also heard of buying fake references. I probably sound awful but I’m thinking of resorting to that? Does anyone here have any experience with them? I should probably add that the interviewer said no relatives and…

I also posted this on jobs, but would like some perspective from here too: I graduated a while ago and have been job searching for about 6-7 months. I finally got an offer for a full-time co-op that is about 30-35 minutes away, and it only pays $15 an hour. On one hand, I need the experience and this position would likely be relevant for the type of experience I'm seeking. The company is also huge and there's room for advancement (I could probably get an actual job with them down the road). I also have been searching for a while with not much luck (many interviews, no offers). On the other hand, the drive is pretty longish, and I have freeway driving anxiety. The salary is also ridiculously low, and the position is 3 months long. I need a job for experience, but not really for expenses since I…

I just fucking wrecked my dads truck because of my job not letting us take today off without giving us points and won’t let us use pto for today either and the reason I wrecked is because of icy conditions I’m on my last point most of which was acquired from being out a week from my rollover four months ago and they said that they won’t accept icy roads as a good enough reason for anyone to not show up I live an hour from work this is bullshit they shouldn’t hold this over anyone’s head so I called in they don’t ever answer the phone so idk if I even have a job after today

For anyone who is a WFH employee, and your company is either testing the waters for a return to office policy or scheduled your return, you need to fight tooth and nail and get your other colleagues to do so as well. Here are a couple real reasons why the “return to office” is happening (please add yours as well): 1) Bloated egos and self-important managers. some of these office managers whole job was to manage in-office responsibilities and workers. without that, they themselves are worried about their security as executives wisen up. so the fear is stoked and the narrative of the “lazy WFH employee” is written to get us back to the office. all the while they've been having record profits without loss in productivity. There is also the property they may be renting to justify their budget, and they'd rather force people to return than swallow their…