Antiwork

So, I’ve been on Reddit for a few years now and this is my first post, it’s kinda long so I’m sorry. The past 7 months or so I had been working as a food server at a small restaurant. The owners own 5 or 6 restaurants, and were hardly ever around. I enjoyed the position, I really liked my coworkers (for the most part) and I got paid about 25-30$ an hour from tips and being a hood and kind person. I knew this was not going to be a career though because I am currently in college to be a high school chemistry teacher (because I hate money and I never want to have enough of it). So, enough background. In December the owners fired the general manager and replaced him with one of the servers. She had been working there for maybe 5 months, had never had…

Not like we just had record inflation or anything so employees shouldn't need a bump, right? Management is trying to 'shut down' that expectation for all employees

I’m looking for advice. I’m on mobile so apologies for any weird formatting. I’m feeling so burnt out at my job. I hate it and I hate the company that I work for. I’d like to leave, but am waiting to line something else up. As I said, I’m burnt out, depressed, and constantly struggling to find the motivation to do my work. I work from home right now which I’m sure doesn’t help my mental health. I can go a week or more without ever leaving my apartment. For all of these reasons, I was really looking forward to taking a little bit of time off this summer to go on a vacation at a national park with my family (who live in another state). Part of the reason for the trip is to celebrate some of my brother’s recent accomplishments. I asked for 4 days off about 3.5…

I'm leaving an absolutely toxic job. My boss is an asshole; he regularly insults me, i get given the worst jobs to do, and I'm forced to stay hours past my aggreed upon finishing time. Also, whilst in the office, he said to the rest of them, “he would be better suited as a patient in a care home than work in one.” I have one week for ideas to make working there a living hell. I have thought of putting tuna into stock so it stinks up the place, but I need a lot more ideas.

So, I just got the news today that leadership is asking us to return to work in person, in the office effective 4/1. After a fairly hybrid schedule pre-COVID, and then full work from home schedule for the last 2 years, I'm in shock about what seems to me, a completely unreasonable request. I like my job, and get paid quite well, but how can I effectively combat this request? I am perfectly capable of working from home, I'm productive, available, and hitting goal. My life has been totally adjusted over the last 2 years to no longer accommodate commute time (1 hr each way) or commuter costs ($350/month). I have already looked and applied for full time work from home positions. But I cannot afford to make any moves without having something else lined up. Help! I need some push back talking points here.

I was contracted to TekSystems (a staffing agency) for employment and they misfiled my employment status to the wrong state as a remote worker. I caught the mistake early on but it was two paystubs worth paid to the wrong state. They've acknowledged it was confusion on their end for onboarding despite the two states applied for taxes (one for my resident state and one for the nonresident state) As we all know each additional state for IRS tax filing costs $50 which I've asked reimbursement for. If I didn't catch this error then this would've resulted in IRS penalties on my end and higher taxes as well. After 2 months of back and worth that was the end decision. TekSystems is owned by Allegis Group and their CEO is Steven Biscotti who paid $600 million for the Ravens in 2000 and an additional $325 million a total of $925…