Antiwork

Five, if the funeral is out of town.

I’m a new hire and when I was onboarded, the people I work with were all “don’t hesitate to reach out!/we are your resources!“/etc etc blah blah blah. I am quickly learning that is not the case. Every time I email someone, even if it is a very necessary question, the email response is often 72 hours or more, and more often than not with a passive aggressive tone to boot. Superiors will promise things and never follow through, and the like. I know everyone has their own work to do, but I wish we could be more teammate-y about it. Instead I’m left to sink or swim, wherein I’ll for sure be punished for sinking. Fuck work.

I got a call for the interview and was told it's full time and that I'd have to drive up to a few hours a day. I would only be getting 40% per item for the first 20 items and then 50% for the next 20 and upwards of 60% for anything over 60. The per item rate was between $10-20 and takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to assemble and that doesn't include the time it takes me to get the items pulled. So I figure I would realistically be getting at most $20 an hour. Now this isn't terrible until you consider that I might be driving 4 hours round trip and arrive to discover they only had 10 items to assemble and get half of $75 for 2 hours of work and 4 hours on the road which would cost me roughly $15 in gas. So for 6…

I'm out of here. This sub used to be great, now it's gone to shit. It's just full of lazy people that don't want to do anything and take multiple months off. And if they don't get their way, they blame their workplace/manager. You're giving the people that joined this site for a legitimate reason a bad rep. Stop idolizing “Doreen” (from fox news). He's not a good role model. It's been real guys ️

On mobile so my format won’t be the best. Last year I got a job offer from a fortune 50 company to move halfway across the country to fill a position they desperately needed. I was unemployed and it was during the height of Covid so I accepted. I managed to get a really good signing bonus and for the company to cover my moving expenses as long as I sign a 2 year contract with them. Little did I know that they would use the contract to royally fuck me. A few weeks into the job I was killing it in the field, had the best numbers, showed great leadership and I had an edge compared to everyone else here because it’s a niche field and I have an extensive background in the kind of work we were doing. The company has been treating me fair so far. A…

When I joined the company I work for, I took a “lower” position in favor of better salary and benefits and non-toxic environment. A new Team Lead position opened recently and I told my boss that I’m interested. I have a few years experience in that field, plus a couple of years experience working for the company itself. I’m scheduled soon to have a call with my boss to discuss it, but I’m afraid they might offer me the position without the raise, or along the “let’s see how it fits and we’ll see about the raise” lines. I definitely don’t want more responsibilities for the same amount of money and I’m even ok staying at the same position in that case, but I wonder if anyone has any advice on how to handle the situation, if it comes to that. How to make my case that I deserve the…

Throughout my entire working career I've never fit in at any job. The stress has lead me to take antidepressants. It's gotten so bad I have to suppress a fight or flight response. When we went into lock down I only had to come in two days a week and I was alone those days. I really started to feel better. The stress just magically became more tolerable. But now that we are back to normal (completely ignoring covid) the stress is back. What is wrong with me? I'm sorry if this isn't allowed but you guys seem pretty tolerant of people like me.