Antiwork

Can you leave a job thay you just started because there is a toxic work environment and still collect unemployment until I find something else? Im in NY.

Okay… so my company’s work from home policy is a hot mess. So for my department, I assigned everyone two remote days a week, with the option of working on the office if they prefer like me. There’s some caveats about being onsite if your project requires it, or you need to visit a site, etc. Operationally, I need two people on-site to provide immediate support if something breaks. Normally I fill one of those slots, because I prefer working in my office over the dining room table. One of my employees is bitching up a storm that their coworkers are remote working but they can’, which is utter bullshit. If they want to work from home, they just need to tell me they’re remote working. Well I figured out why. Company policy is that the trip from your home to any location is considered your commute and on your…

I've been promised an internal lateral move for literally 6 months and due to absence and high workload on the team it hasn't happened. I've been doing 10/11 hour days constantly, no breaks, to try and relieve the pressure, but it never improves. Of course none of this comes with a pay rise either. Still on a terrible salary 3.5 years in. I am shit sick of picking up other teams slack while still working in an area I hate because of management being Yes People and shoveling more work onto our team when we already have enough. We've been at “full capacity” team wise now for 8 months, and the second another person joins it seems the amount we do quadruples. Management refusing to deal with issues on other teams that directly impact us too and then acting like we're the problem. Instead of hoping it'll end soon, I've…

Since childcare is so ridiculously expensive I was forced to quit my first job out of college. I would have gladly worked part-time but the numbers made that silly. Right when I was able to get back into the workforce the pandemic happened forcing me to stay home with the kids even longer. I loved my time with the kids and have no regrets. In fact I consider myself extremely fortunate that my partner makes enough that we could make that decision. Our kids are thriving because of it. My general gripe is the society we've created that punishes parents with high childcare costs and the view that employees with family are a liability. I'm looking for entry level lab work that claims to only need high school or associates, yet I have a biology degree with a chemistry minor from a reputable science and technology university. I'm not even…