Antiwork

Last job I had said “Top performers earn $$$ (insert ridiculous amount of money), and can earn ($$$$) in their 2nd year!” Bare mind I’m still relatively young and new to the business world so I can afford to get swindled like this, as I did at my previous job. However, when I see people who have families, more responsibilities and higher pressure to succeed at a job, come in because they’ve been LIED to about how much they’re “pretty much guaranteed” to make? That kind of shit makes me infuriated. So many people get duped into working jobs that are not even remotely close to their description/pay. All of this so recruiters can hit a quota and so people already working there can have some new blood to bully. The resulting punishment of lying to people in order to get them to accept a job? Absolutely nothing. Fuck corporate…

As the title states. I even requested 2 of my senior coworkers to check my work before submission and that didn't happen. So mistakes went out the door. I developed a test program which the equipment failed. Boss still thinks I screwed up. (The company never even had a test program before) On top of that, the company definitely has OSHA violations that should be reported. I have had minimal training and almost no support on my projects. Been looking for other jobs and so far just interviewing once per month for the past 6 months. I've had offers but it's for night shift. Really considering quitting with no notice and nothing lined up because this behavior isn't going to stop.

So today I left work 20mins early due to a power cut (and I had already completed my work ) , the office space was complete dark so me and my Co worker left and I sent my manager a text that ” I'm outside my office because there's no power ” and he replied 20mins later saying ” okay sure ,we will discuss it tomorrow ” which surprised me We've had this type of powecut in the past a few times and I used to help out in sections I wasn't supposed to work in where there was still light and then these other 2 times he's allowed both of us to leave during the power outages that happened near our knockoff time because there is no use for us without a working stations . Waiting to hear what is it that we are going to discuss tomorrow ,…

I live in a pretty large and well know US city. My friend just graduated last year with a BA in GIS. They had a hard time finding a job so when one finally popped up they took it. Fast forward a couple of months and we were talking about how it was going. The job pays 43k to monitor air and water around factories to make sure they are in compliance with state and federal regulations. The friend has had to work almost every weekend at her old job waiting tables just to make ends meet. This week their boss found out that almost all employees are working too jobs. To fix this they said “We will ask to see if upper management will give you a 10k COL adjustment.” I can't believe that management is so detached from the situation that they didn't even know that they don't…

Hi all — I need a bit of advice here. I forgot to submit my hours for a week of work, but an onboarding email from HR said this: “Abusing your allowed working hours or forgetting to submit your hours on time will constitute immediate termination. We have a zero tolerance for not submitting your hours on time and NO payroll tickets will be issue resulting in loss wages for that week.” Is there a way to get my money without being fired? Is this even legal?? I live in the US in New Jersey, and I really need a FULL next paycheck 🙁

I’ve been working for the same company in the same type of job for 10 years. I’ve put a lot of effort in to networking into a different job, and I feel like it’s just not working. This company is very good at ‘brainwashing’ (for lack of a better term), and I feel like I’m a victim of it…there are times that I can’t imagine leaving this company. And then I stop and think about how ridiculous that sounds to tie my’self’ to a company. Hard to know how to feel. I would rather just not work-but unfortunately I live in a world where things cost money.

It seems like it would be better to be homeless in Europe than live paycheck to paycheck in America. Why aren’t more people moving? Is it just the logistics of moving so far away? Hesitancy to leave family and familiar surroundings? Hardly anyone I’ve talked to in real life has any desire to leave America. It feels like I’m the only one.