Antiwork

Back in 2012 before my daughter was born. Working in a food court deli, the new owner's wife bitched me out in front of customers for taking a sick day to see my doctor when I was about 35weeks along and feeling absolutely awful. She said I was selfish to take time off and that I was 'only pregnant, not dying' and I should be able to work right up to day of labour like she did. I developed pre eclampsia at 37weeks and almost stroked giving birth and had some complications afterwards too. 11 years on and I'm still pissed off thinking about it.

What are your ideal (under modern conditions) work days, number of hours, corresponding to the following phases of life: high school student college student college graduate (fresh) college graduate (five years in) seasoned professional (ten years in) a young husband or wife a new family (2+1) a larger family (2+x) an empty nest family (+x fucked off) 10 years before retirement post-retirement old age days per week (or specific days), and general number of hours per week to lead a happy, productive life with good work-life balance. …. for each stage if you can. add commentary if you feel it needs it. thank you.

I thought robots where supposed to take over by now

On mobile so sorry for formatting errors. About a year ago I (24f) left a job where the boss was horrible. She didn’t pay me (or anyone) for months, accused me of faking my disability for government money, called me too fat for certain clothes in work zooms, and to top it all off when my father died she had her PA text me that I can choose 5 days off work to grieve and sort things out, commenting later that it would be worse to lose a mother anyway. When I left and asked for my owed pay she refused and (apparently) told my colleagues she’d come for me with a baseball bat if I took her to court over it. An ex colleague messaged me lately saying she’s not paid them for 8 months again now (who knows why any of them stay), and she’s doing a Kickstarter…

I am in a management role in Australia, where I am about 2 years from qualifying for my 10 year long service leave entitlements. Problem is I am really struggling with this role. Expectations are insanely high, both from clients and from upper management. I don’t currently have an assistant and haven’t had for some time (where others in my role do, in fact when someone else in my role lost their assistant they got bumped to the front of the queue before me for a replacement). Bosses say it’s because I’m capable without one. Also clients are just straight up rude and awful, I’ve been called an effing sh… c..t, and told just this morning to “shut my trap”. Workload is high, stress is high. But my long service leave would be a payout of decent 5 figures and I’m 8 years down 2 go so it seems like…

Hi everyone. After 5 years in a corporate company I was forced to quit. In my contract it says we amicably ended the contract. I have an interview with my dream company this week. Do I need to tell them I am no longer working there? When I applied i was still legally employed but dream company took 2 weeks to get back to me about an interview. What should I say? I feel i will just pretend I'm still employed. Or should I say I'm no longer employed? The reason why I was asked to end contract was because my team bullied me for a year and my relationship with them got worse and worse with me setting boundaries and not doing the extra work they were used to getting from me.

So Ive been working nights at a supermarket (grocery store) for about 5 months now and there’s been several times when I’ve been at work and there has been a strong odour of shit and or piss. I found out tonight that the drainage system for the building is super old and hasn’t been upgraded since the store opened (so over 20 years ago)… as a result the drains get blocked regularly and they actually leak onto the shop floor and staff room hallway, let me repeat that, THERE IS LITERAL SHIT LEAKING ON THE FLOOR WHERE PEOPLE COME TO BUY FOOD! I’m not too happy about working in these conditions either, I’m so close to walking about but I need the money and need a new job before I leave. COMPANIES DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THEIR STAFF OR THEIR CUSTOMERS.