Antiwork

I work in Architecture, so earn pennies. Every week we get our pay slip email notification and to supplement it; our payroll office adds a quote of the week to the email. I almost fell of my chair from reading the quote this week: “The greatest wealth is to live content with little”. What a slap in the face…

6 hour days, 4 days a week. We’d all be so much happier. Society isn’t going to collapse. None of us are productive more than 6 hours a day anyway. In fact, i’d argue we’d get MORE done in those 6 hours, since we’d be more recharged and less drained. There’s no reason in 2023 why this can’t be a reality. Fuck this antiquated 40 hour work week.

TL;DR MI resident, $4,600 buyout fee for apt (I'd like the lease broken for free instead because…health) -I was exposed to secondhand smoke for months in my apartment and despite explaining in written documentation to the landlord that I had a condition that made it hard to breathe with this smoke. Haven't claimed disability for it ever since I manage well OUTSIDE OF MY APARTMENT, but am diagnosed and would be able to prove it. -My lease states NO SMOKING ALLOWED -I am a non-smoker and have always been. I don't think that I will need to prove this, but how would I do so if I did have to? I am thinking of ways to test myself and the air, I might go to urgent care tomorrow to gather more evidence since it will likely be in my hair and pee. Probably swabs as well -All communication was ignored…

We also don’t get PTO until working there for a full year, and even then it’s only one week that can’t be taken during the summer because that’s a “blackout period”. Oh, and I have coworkers who act like it’s a personal slight against them if you ever take a sick day or day off! This is also the best job I’ve ever had, it’s finally out of retail where the hours were even worse. Is there any hope at all lol

ok so i worked the same job for over 1 year how likely is it for them to pay my wage to wrong account? i did email them to say iv not been paid but thay did not reply i left the job been on to acas about them thay still say thay payed me and after about 6 weeks thay sent prood of payment i dont think its real i think thay made it up it has my name but not my account number not even close to what mine is. how can thay make a mistake like this and not even check when im telling them i did not get payed?

Wording and any possible replies will be purposefully vague because my tin foil hat is screwed on too tight today… The backstory: So like many, the pandemic caused my SO's company to go full WFH. While business was impacted to a certain extent, they were able to continue operations almost completely. Over the 3+ years, multiple “no raises, but be glad you still have jobs” (nearly verbatim) type e-mails have been sent out or line has been stated on all hands conf calls… The company has been teasing return to office for the better part of a year and it finally happened last week in the form of a “hybrid” schedule with much corporate fanfare. Pretty much everyone has been grumbling about it for months – they've been successful from home, so why go back into the office? My theory: because someone decided to move the office (location makes business…

In September 2022, I found a job that was my first ever full-time job. As soon as I started, I knew it would be a disaster. There were two categories for my co-workers: kind and miserable, or mean and miserable. Plus, I had an awful boss who was extremely passive-aggressive. I had no support, and anything I did wasn’t good enough. I try my best to laugh at it now. But I can’t. That job destroyed my mental health. I developed a problem where I cry every morning at 5 am before work. And I truly mean EVERY MORNING. This went on for months until I abruptly quit this April. I would also cry every weekend thinking about going back to work. And sometimes, I would call my mom or BF on the way home to cry to them about work. It’s too painful to share all the bad things…