Antiwork

People that work for black-owned businesses, do you guys deal with the same shit?

Fellow redditors, need your advice. I recently graduated with a accounting and finace degree and have been working at a admin role for the past 7-9 months. I will post the pros and cons of my work in the comments below. Tell me what you would do in my position.

Throughout my life I’ve always been told to study and work hard in college and high school so that I don’t settle for “shitty jobs”. Well I followed everything by book and now I’m stuck at a minimum wage job, depressed, angry and frustrated

Yeah, I know it sounds obvious, right? I had to learn the hard way. I work in IT. I was the sole developer on my team. I worked on both frontend and backend work. I was promised at every annual discussion that “good things were in the pipeline”. This was my first job in a new industry so I stayed because I needed the experience those “good things” would give me. I also got along well with my manager and he always fought for us so I trusted him when he said that. Instead, over the past few years, I have been made superfluous. My team hired another developer part time because we are in different time zones. Initially, it was ok. The small things went to him but the major changes still came to me. Slowly but surely, he was promoted to full time, and now, he is the…

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ERGHH, this just happened and I need to be able to get it out somewhere. A recruiter berated me for almost 20 minutes after rejecting an offer. At the start of January, a recruiter reaches out to me on Linkedin from a major company asking to see if I would be interested in a role. This person came from a major player within the industry so I promptly reply. I hear nothing back for almost a month until she reaches out in early Feb to set a meeting. Several days before our meeting is scheduled to happen, I fire a quick message asking her what specific roles and compensation did she have in mind for me in the company. The response I get back was “There are a variety of positions I think you'd be a great fit for!”. OKAY, that is ambiguous AF. Whatever. I'll just roll with it…

I worked for this place for 8 years and gave EVERYTHING for this company. I came in early, stayed late, I even missed my sons first play because they needed me to stay late. One week we had our interstate colleagues visit us. The company put us all up in this fancy hotel for a week so we could bond and talk about company growth. I got on really well with one guy, we hung out and had fun and shared most of our meals together. The conference ended and we all went back to normal. The next Monday at work we had our usual team meeting. 15 of us there. My manager started by saying “I’m sorry we have to start this meeting off with a negative but some of you were quite rude during the conference and made faces toward the CEO when he asked you about your…

No matter how shit your personal situation is right now, you gotta feel for the people in Ukraine that have to still go to work whilst their country is being invaded. Like holy shit. I cannot possibly imagine the stress right now, clocking-in when air raid sirens are blaring overhead and armed soldiers are inching their way towards you. My sympathy to those that are suffering in Ukraine right now, I wish I could do something.