Antiwork

I've been working as an electrical helper for a staffing agency for seven months and have recently been hired by a commercial electrical company. Florida is a bit of bs state in terms of wages for this kind of work, honestly most work really. Anyways this new company isnt too bad. They have a good insurance plane, PTO and other benefits even though I'm being paid $15 an hour. The other good thing is they work on big projects like hospitals so there is some consistency and not too much travel. (I hate driving) In August they offered to start my 4 year apprenticeship and pay for my schooling. This sounds good, but my biggest qualm is a paper there making sign for it. On the paper it states “if you are terminated for any reason other than a lay off period, you agree to pay back the tution and…

After 17 years something that started as happy and wanting to Learn 5 years in the anxiety and depression started. Today I had finally had enough for two years I had been planning my escape. Selling my 2600sqfr house bought 18acres of land and am in the process of building a 768 sqft mortgage free Amish shed cabin double lofted both lofts at 16×12 and spray foamed. I plan to homestead and looking at these food prices inflation sanctions and war I would have to say that before too long farming what you eat will be king there has to be a reason big timers are buying up all the ag land because their lords of property with accrual science degrees told them so .

So I have recently joined a new job. My manager called me “cocky” because i am young. And he thinks that i think he is stupid. (Which im sure now, HE IS). He kept telling me to be humble, as he sees i have potential of being a manager one day. So, today he tells me that I should not wear white socks, and match my socks with my pants or something. He says this is soft skills training. And he says that it is about perceptions, the way we dress and other bs. I just smiled and thanked him for his advice. What is wrong with him?? How do i deal with this toxicity??

I'm currently in a department that has been decimated by resignation and am managing around 3 times the expected work load. My boss head is FIRMLY in the sand about our department crumbling. Funnily enough my lone team mate and I are falling behind on our work and the boss had noticed this. What does he come up with? “I'm trying to figure out why you're falling behind because employee name used to do this workload plus more (named all tasks) and we never had an issue. I'm not sure what's happened as we haven't grown that much in twelve months (referring to portfolio size). Is it processes or training that we need to work on? ” mind you thus is about the 5th time in 3 weeks that he's used this line. No accountability for the staff shortage, no offer for reassurance at all on how the future looks…

I've found myself in a tricky situation at work. I work in the natural resources industry and last year finally landed what I thought would be my dream job, and even beat out over 130 other candidates. The job is not a dream. My department has had turnover after turnover and is basically a revolving door. The person doing my job before me had already quit by the time I started and left things a mess. My training consisted of “here's the server location of things you should read”. My benefits were 2 months late to start. What I am struggling with the most is this job is not as advertised. I went to school for 4 years for a specific area of study, was told I'd be using that knowledge and skill sets, and it is absolutely not true. The job is not going well due to being so…

I told my manager I didn’t respect them and I got fired.

I’ve been there for 11 months, love the job, love the people, we all have genuinely gotten tight as friends and love working together. About five months ago, we hire a new VPM to run our team, and she is essentially an absentee parent, canceling zoom meetings while we are all in the waiting room, rescheduling last minute, triple booking herself. Super distracted on calls, eating, doing chores around the house, not leading meetings. Not once did she actually say “how are you, company veterans, tell me the state of the department how things are going“, never actually talked to us to read the room. No one could get meetings with her. This is a very tightknit company and this is super out of the norm. We’ve been shouting into the void for months that the way we are doing commercial production is really inefficient in marketing and need to…