Antiwork

Title basically says it all. I havent been fired in my adult life outside of my very very first job so it really came as a shock! I had been there for less than a month but the past week I fell really ill with strep and had to stay home. Ended up going in on Monday and being fired because they think I'm not technically competent. They also fucked up my payroll and wrote me a cheque that ended up getting my bank account frozen and I called them on the weekend in a panic which they probably didn't like either but hey if they can't even get payroll right then idk what to say

I just need to vent as I’ve been pissed off the last few days about this. I worked at a municipality this winter as a seasonal plow driver with the hopes of getting one of the full time spots that would be open at the end of the winter. Well I busted my ass came in every storm I was called in for, sacrificed my the holidays, weekends, and gave up time to spend with family, worked exceptionally hard and did damn good work only to be completely passed over for a kiss ass and some guy who was basically hired before the fucking interviews even happened and never even tempted here. I was told by one of the head people that “it was a very tough decision but we’d like for you to come back and be a seasonal worker and try again for full time next year. You…

Venting. We have these temperature monitoring systems that alarm when stuff is out of range. The room temp was alarming repeatedly so when that happens you’re supposed to tell management per the sop I go tell my boss and in a very sassy voice she goes “I know. Nothing more I can do ”… And it’s not the first time she seems annoyed with me when I tell her stuff for the good of the lab. Funny thing is it’s a lose lose, if I didn’t tell her stuff she’d be like “why didn’t you bring this to my attention?” Anyone else have a boss like that? I’m just getting sick of her , my old boss was never like this but she retired and this one took the job. Isn’t part of the reason you get paid the big bucks is cause they have to deal with issues? I…

So, I work for AT&T (sadly) and I had my eyes on a new pilot project that they are developing, and they needed volunteers to apply to get trained as the first group supporting the product (end-to-end). Well, I applied. And then I got an acceptance email and a 1on1 with my future manager for the role. They told me that more info was to be coming my way in the following week, including time-frames and salary and whatnot. Today I got an email that I was denied the promotion. I asked for clarifications and I got the answer. My stats (KPI) are low. But they're not, they're high. So I asked them to show me what my stats are, since they are low, and they gave them to me. They were wrong and I corrected them on the spot. My KPI are all where they need to be, so…

I recently started working at a clothing retailer in a small Utah town, this is a big corporation, but I’ll just leave the company name out of it. Our manager has an expectation that we are always on our workplace communication app, we are required to download it on our phones, and she sends us messages constantly wether we are at work or not, if we aren’t reading and responding to her messages outside of scheduled work hours, she gets upset with us when we are at work, that we aren’t volunteering our time out of work to stay caught up on communication, the app itself when we sign in gives us a message we have to accept to log in, that says if we are caught using it outside of work hours the company will discipline us, up to and including termination. Aside from the companies communication app, the…

I'm almost 40 and just keep coming back to the same conclusion. I don't think I can ever be happy when the majority of my days/waking hours are spent doing something I do not want to do. There's a deleted scene from the very end of Office Space when Peter is outside, at his new construction job, and his new boss walks up and is basically the blue-collar version of his previous boss. That kinda gives the movie a totally different spin and you wonder if Peter will ever actually be happy. ​ ​ I'll be starting a new job soon. I've been in my field for over a decade and, comparatively, the offer is objectively great. Better environment, significant salary raise, better benefits. When the opportunity came up, I was a little blinded by it – partly because of the pros of the job but also because it distracted…