Antiwork

I hate this in hospitality , definitely won’t be taking the job as it’s an awful chain group restaurant. I don’t understand why restaurant managers make the work so stressful – there’s so many easier ways to make a restaurant work well. I’ve worked in hospitality for over 5 years and I’m currently redundant and with recruitment taking so long i’ve have to pick up a job and I hate the fact that hospitality is like this. I wish there were more independent restaurants available to work in. Local economy is destroyed by chains like this. It’s sad to see.

I'll preface this with the obligatory “I'm on mobile” apology. I'm 15, and I got my first job back in April of 2021. Now this alone has been slightly challenging for me, since at the time I was unmedicated. I've since gotten diagnosed with depression and anxiety, and prescribed treatment, so I'm doing a lot better. One of the things I've never appreciated is how they try to take away your individuality. I work at a food place, so I understand most of the dresscode — tied back hair, hats/visers, etc. But then the rules got weird. For example, there's a specific amount of rings you're allowed to wear. You're only allowed one bracelet on each hand. Some face piercings aren't allowed, and there's a regulation on the length of your nails. Hell, even the color of your socks is regulated (although nobody actually enforces that). Even worse, LGBTQ+ accessories…

Like the title says, pretty straightforward. Would appreciate industry, backstory, and any other relevant context. I’m curious for a few reasons – to motivate others to leave their toxic jobs, to see what’s realistic, etc. I’ve also seen some people in this sub post astronomical salary leaps when they got a new job; and what strikes me is the job they left was very toxic and unenjoyable, so why didn’t they leave it sooner if such better options were available? I personally haven’t pulled off anything too spectacular. Recently left my toxic job for a ~$5k annual increase and actual bonus potential (although I don’t put much stock into bonuses until they’re actually received). But so far the easier workload and reduction in stress has made me feel happy with my decision. What about you?

Genuine question. How do people on this subreddit earn money?

I just got to thinking. The minimum wage in theory should be the lowest a company can pay its employees. Surely it should only be used by small companies that just got enough funds to get employees? How is it acceptable that billion dollar corporations pay the lowest they possibly can to employees. We shouldn't have to be fighting for the minimum wage to be higher because it should have never been socially acceptable in the first place for huge corporations to pay the as little as they legally can. We as a society ought to be ashamed that we let this dehumanization go on. Surely the bigger the company the bigger the wage of working there?? Then bigger companies would have more benefits and thought of more positively too??? This is so messed up.

Work made us reapply for our positions and now re-advertised the role for external applicants, some of us were told we did not “meet the standards they were looking for” even though we've been doing the role for a few months. I'm now starting to wonder why they re-advertised the role for external candidates, it makes no sense…

To preface this- I started with a new company less than a year ago, and am facing the decision to be fired, quit, or suck it up at the expense of my mental health. I make 6 figures as a mid-level “manager” (no direct reports) in a WFH corporate environment. I have been in my line of work for 7 years, and prior to that, was a military officer for 6 years. At my current company, my day to day expectations and work far exceed what I expected when I joined, and what was explained to me by my predecessor. I work, on average, 14-16 hour days, and often am working weekends as well to try to stay on top of projects. The level of responsibility that I have is equivalent to that of 4 people and as such, I'm constantly drowning in work. I have a strong feeling that…

Remote Job There's a dude on the team that chats all day literally. He messaged me in private chat one day saying I should let him pick a request as I have done alot and he hasn't done much 🤯 What audacity! I didnt respond to him….you're paid to chat at work do that. I'm doing what they pay me to do. Then another day, he mentioned my base in the general chat where 18 people can read..right after a morningmeeting. Saying he noticed during the meeting that requests were dissapearing in the queue and that he saw that I uploaded something in the SharePoint during the meeting at 9.40. Mind you..meeting ended at 9.30. That ge feels somebody is stealing requests and hoarding it for later 🤯. So I called him out too..saying why has he taken it upon himself to monitor me and that requests could have been…

It’s hilarious. Over the last two years I’ve worked my ass off keeping this company alive, managing their technical systems. My coworker who built it all quit after seven long years of making this setup. He quit because the owners son was a dick and kept empire building. Slowly getting rid of the best devs who had a brain and might say no to him. So he left and it was all on me. I was a junior position at best. It was a lot to learn. Over the next year I threw things into overdrive and used every skill I had, and a whole lot I didn’t as I learned what was built, and was congratulated on keeping them afloat and staying with it. Eventually they brought in someone else to help me. Hey this is great. Except…. It wasn’t, really. It was because they hated me having so…