Antiwork

I (22F) never really had a passion for something that I wanted to turn into a life long career. I have the hobbies that I love and enjoy doing (such as fitness, cooking, painting, and writing). I graduated college with a degree in business in 2022, and I’ve spent the last year scouring job marking trying to find something I would remotely enjoy. The idea of sitting at a desk job from 9-5, 5 days a week is repulsing to me. I’m very hyper/active and I cannot imagine being confined to a room or space for long periods of time. After spending months looking for something I might enjoy doing, I got in touch with a family friend who owns a school and he said I would qualify to teach kindergarten. The benefits really stood out to me, especially the holiday as I would like to travel the world while…

I recently accepted a new job that will pay much better than my current position, but when I started at my current job they gave me a signon bonus that I am supposed to pay back if I quit before a year has elapsed. I feel that I deserve this bonus though because I worked hard and put up with a lot of very poor management decisions. I also hear lots of rumors that this company has money issues and is being very tight with its purse strings as of late. Would they even go after me in court for the money?

Giving a notice of less than x will render the employee ineligible for any future payments under the applicable compensation. -Does anyone know what this means? If I give a notice shorter than x days does that mean I won’t be paid for the remainder if the days I work?

This sub likes to throw a lot of numbers of possible wages around after accounting for increases in productivity, but does anyone know of a study that looks into what could actually happen? Productivity is up, yes, but the US no longer has a stranglehold on the global economy like the 1950s. Vacuum production is way up, but a travelling vacuum salesman is no longer viable (even before online shopping), regardless of wage. How much of depressed wages is due to corporate greed, and how much is due to a weaker economy? I've seen some plots of wages vs inflation vs profit margins vs productivity, but is there some math that puts it all together? If companies were making the same profit margins as they were, how much would the minimum/median wages be able to go up?

I got married last month and took 3 weeks off for a honeymoon. Just before my honeymoon I asked my area manager and direct manager about changing my fulltime role into a part time role at 29 hours a week, saying that my partner and I are looking to start a family and we need to have more time together. While I’m on annual leave they advertise for a fulltime role of what I’ve been doing, they hire someone and on my first day back I am taken into the managers office and told my position is now redundant. I have been there almost 7 years. A lot of hours worked for free under the disguise of my manager “looking after us” with flexibility.. but when you ask for flexibility in your hours because you plan on getting pregnant you are no longer of use. I fucking hate this place.

so i sent a resignation letter yesterday and my boss told me to think about it until monday WTF. why would he do that? he also said he was surprised. this is after I had previously told him i was going insane and didn't enjoy the work. how can he be surprised?

Never posted on here before, but I don't have many people to talk to about this. Some context – I started working for this company in 2010. A few years in, my health started to decline. Shingles, influenza, parvovirus among many other contagious viruses. I had to take unpaid sick leave for a month or so at a time, with each illness taking me a little longer to recover. As a way to manage this I was allowed to change from full time to part time. After catching Parvovirus though, I didn't really recover. It became cfs/fibromyalgia, like what a lot of long covid people are dealing with. My doctor of over a decade recommended working from home as a way to minimise my exposure to viruses. Lots of people come in to work sick because of management pressure, and I would pay the price for it. After a long…

First time poster, so I'll keep it kind of short. I've been dealing with severe anxiety as of late, and has me dealing with dizziness to where I can barely stand, and it's caused me to be scared of being fired or wrote up if I miss today. I have paid sick time accrued but my boss doesn't see mental health as “a real problem”. Is it ok to use my sick time to help recover and (maybe?) visit a doctor about this? My boss writes up if missed shifts (doctors note or not)

Some things to know about my boss: He threatens to cut your pay if you're sick in a long period of time. He thinks hes better than anyone else, and he has a huge ego He brags when he wins, if someone loose he bully them. He makes promises of raises, but postpone it for years He talk behind his employees back. All in all, he's a complete idiot and have been my boss for 2,5 years. Now i finally got the news that he's fired and the replacement is a good leader that the company knows and he have huge success with his colleagues. All in all, i'm so happy my asshole of a boss finally got fired for his behavior.