Antiwork

Hey everyone, this is my first post here so please bear with me. I (38m) have been working in my field for 10 years. In that time I've gained a wide array of experience, but haven't finished a degree nor do I hold any active certifications pertaining to my field. Needless to say, the majority of employment opportunities available to me are considered to be “entry level” and the pay is on par with what one would expect from that level of role. In early '22 I finally hit something of a break. I was hired for a role that is largely the same as my previous ones, however includes a few more advanced technical aspects and thus pays approximately 25% more than one been able to find in the past. Despite that, the pay I was given was at the bottom of the range being offered for the role;…

So I recently got a WFH related job of customer experience, and I got a lot of pressure and responsibility since after my first month there. I'm three months in and the pressure and work load didn't stop but rising, to the point of being too much to handle. Besides, there had some lay offs and people leaving with no extra people to help. I'm very new and I need some time to adjust to the job in order to make it right, but I'm alone and everyone is busy. So my anxiety came up, and it's gotten worse over the weeks. Last week I got a crushing pain in my chest during a meeting and I thought I was getting a heart attack. This Tuesday my nausea got worse andi had to try to throw up, but nothing was coming out because I wake up so nauseous I can't…

TLDR: I was fired from a job I needed, yes, but hated with my entire soul. I live in the middle of nowhere, (yes, courage the cowardly dog is my neighbor) so job offers aren't that great. Does any one else have this problem? How did you get a job you could actually stand in such a remote area? ​ I worked as a cashier at a truck stop, due to my past I have huge anxieties about people and get easily triggered when overrun, or overwhelmed. That wasn't my only problem with this place as it was sick with favoritism. I got fired after missing two days while being on my final warning for having missed like 6, I know that sounds like a lot but hold on. I missed 8 days total in the 6 or so months I worked there, a coworker, James, missed… wait for it,…

In my state (OR), employers are required to provide sick leave unless their PTO benefit exceeds the minimum required for paid sick leave. Because of this, my employer only provides all-encompassing PTO. It's company policy that you must use your PTO if you take a sick day, and calling out without PTO available is a writeup, so they advise people to keep hours on deck for sudden illness. Unpaid time off is not allowed. To save money, my employer has started requiring people to use PTO in an amount that grows the more you have saved, for the last 3 quarters now, reducing everyone to 2 days or fewer in the bank. They also require you to use your PTO for facility closures, which have happened twice now in the last year. What this means is that I'm running at 0 hours PTO very often, and no matter how I…

I feel terrible. My self-esteem is in the garbage. Yet, there is this relief. Not having to go back there. I'm so conflicted. They say I can work up to 4 more weeks to give me time to sort something out, but I just can't. It's too embarrassing. Too awkward. Jobs are hard to get here. Can get by more while. The thought of starting over makes me sick. I'm 40 in a few weeks. I have a terrible track record with work. I can't find anything I'm happy doing for more than a few months. I get I'm a problem here, but man doesn't it suck. I've been busting my ass on a side hustle, but god damn it's competitive out there. Like, how do I keep going job to job, career to career for another 25 years? Wait… what am I talking about… I don't own a home…

Obviously no matter the salary, every worker paid with money is in the working class. But when does payment in stock make the employee part of the owner class? Just wondering cuz I work under a low level C suite executive for a small company in a valuable industry.