Antiwork

I’m a full-time employee at a small organization that is largely team based, and I am finding it exceedingly frustrating and sometimes impossible to get things done, and I’m losing my interest in doing this work. I’m keeping this intentionally vague, but the work that I do is time-sensitive and directly impacts peoples’ lives. This is my first job after my undergrad, and I’m not entirely sure what is normal for a job and what is uniquely toxic about this workplace (though I’m learning that “real world” jobs are pretty inherently toxic). Here are the main issues I’ve been experiencing: Despite being a full-time employee, I am required to have at least two supervisors look over any work product before I can do anything with it. That includes emails and even internal documents. There have been several occasions where I have had to continually pester my supervisors to look over…

I just finished an interview for a job I applied located in another city. I think the interview went well – I don’t have any results yet – but the interviewer told me that if I succeed in this first round I will be asked to do the second one face to face at their office. Now, I applied for this job because I’m willing to relocate to this other city, but asking to take a flight + finding an accommodation for 1-2 nights just seems too pretentious to me, just for an interview. How is it that they are ok with conducting the first round online but not the second one? This is a sit-in-a-office kind of job btw, nothing special, probably with an average salary too, and I don’t even know if there will be a third round either. So I’m asking you folks, what would you do?…

Hello, Title says it all. Dumbfuck corporation buys the cheapest laptops and expects them to work for heavy workloads. For the past two weeks I've had several issues: not charging, external displays not working… I have my own PC and could probably fix this issue myself but I am playing stupid, getting paid, and waiting for them to fix shit. I plan on quitting soon, it's a shit show and I hate call centers. The pay and benefits are absolutely not worth my sanity. But for now, I'm playing the long game. They're upset about my metrics not being up to par? Fine, I won't handle calls at all.

I have a review coming up and I don’t know how to express in a non confrontational way that the reason my annual review is shit is due to my lack of training. A year ago, I took on a new position with the same company I had been working for the previous two years. It’s a Project Coordinator role. The annual review is two steps: a self review and then a meeting with the Project Manager to review your self review and their own review of you. I know it’s going to be bad. My own self review was that I need improvement on everything. I really want to say to my Project Manager that there is not much communication, I only hear about something when it’s wrong, and that she chooses to do things herself and not explain anything to me. She’ll swear up and down that she’s…