Antiwork

Although I'm posting from an alt account, I've been lurking here for several years; from the time I was an associate-level employee to, now, a CEO of my own business. I own a small-mid size company that employs over 100 people of varying experience, ages, and incomes. I've been in business for 5 years. Historically I utilized this sub as a method of entertainment and venting. This sub's utility, over time, has transitioned to a tool for anticipating the perspective in which my staff may feel about or respond to operations, management, and policies. Although I appreciate this sub as a platform to vent and learn, it has, IMO, transitioned to a sounding board and lacks input from diverse, necessary perspectives. While many of the scenarios posted on here are unprofessional or unethical, many likely have rationale behind them that I feel many users would benefit from context. I thought…

I have interview for a medical sales position tomorrow, and I’ve never had this big of a job, and something that pays as much. What are things I should pay attention to the boss asks or implies during the interview?

They moved me to another department. I liked the previous one, i hate this one. In the previous one i was hired through an intermediate company, in this one I'm hired directly by the main company. I'm young (24) and I'm just trying to make some money in this company near home while I'm pursuing something else. I really need the money. This new department is more technical (previous one was logistics). There's much stuff to learn and the environment is a bit hostile. The work is not smooth like before, I don't like the people and i feel excluded. Every day is a challenge, every morning is very hard. I look forward to the end of the shift since the beginning. How do you cope when you feel like this?

An update to a previous post of mine. So today I went to a doctor's appointment. I had okayed the time with the onsite supervisor and left a note on my desk before leaving. Well, I just came back to my desk to find an email from my manager (offsite) that someone had seen the note and told them, then they checked and realized I hadn't clocked out (I had forgotten to as I was running late for said appointment.) There were no urgent emails or messages on my desk phone, I was narc'd on as I had feared before. Now what?

While my job has a concerning staff turnover in the management department, I am a coal face worker and I have to say, I am extremely lucky to have my job. I work in disabilities and I am a casual worker. Which means they can give me random shifts with no schedule and I can lose my job at any moment. I instead work scheduled shifts. I generally know what I'm doing in 3 weeks. I have never been at risk of losing my job. I have been told that if I ever need to take a day off, they will give and never question it, because I'm a good worker. That's right. They reward good workers at my job. Last year a family member died and without question, they gave me all the time off I needed, and told me outright that I would have a job when I…

I don't get it. Whats the point of blaming eveyone but yourself? And when are people going to learn that being a boss actually means being a leader or mentor? I've only been at this job for nearly 2 months and every single day I witness people getting corrected in emails ccd to the whole department, I myself get emails all throughout the day telling me and others what I'm doing wrong or what theyre doing wrong. Little does she know in October I'm moving to a new country. Thanks for the experience but you're the worst boss I've ever had.

My shift was programmed to finish at 3. It was already 3.15 and my supervisor kept giving me assignments. When I told her that I’m actually off at 3 she seemed surprised and said that the manager told her that I can leave at 4. He didn’t tell me anything and we worked together that day until he left. I told my supervisor “sorry but I can’t. I wasn’t notified” I ended up clocking out at 3:30. What should I think of this? My manager never seemed like that but that was, for me, a sign of disrespect over my own time.

I work a very physical, high stress job. Seven weeks ago I fell down the stairs in my house and sustained a full thickness tear of my MCL. Like most industries, my field is in trouble. People are leaving constantly due to burn out or leaving due to physical limitations as we age out because it is not sustainable. When I initially fell the first words out of my mouth were “I’d rather be dead than not able to physically function at work.” We have been so short staffed, busy and overworked. I had been coming in a hour earlier than the start of my shift on our busiest day while my coworkers had child care issues and came in an hour late (I’m not upset about this, I understand having children). These days were particularly horrible combined with my coworkers telling me all the things I should be doing…