Antiwork

A friend of mine just took a new job. They were under the impression that they got some time off around Christmas. Turns out the office is closed 8 days but only 3 are paid holidays. If they want to get paid for the remaining 5 days that the office is closed, they have to use vacation time. Is this legal? They can’t go in and work even if they want to.

Hear me out, I know this is r/antiwork, but what are some fields or places y'all work in that you genuinely enjoy or at least don't actively hate. I figured this post might be more insightful in this community as most of the people here know what to avoid and at least some may have found something that ticks all the boxes for them. I work as an automotive technician, and at least where I am from it is a rough industry, with low pay across the board, and awful back breaking work. Couple that with having to provide thousands of dollars in tools and equipment to even work somewhere, and the rapid changes to vehicles we have to stay on top of, its not a job that I would personally recommend and am looking to change careers if possible. In a good year I will make close to 70k…

Hi Everyone. Thanks for your help. My situation is that I followed one of my mentors from a horrible corporate overlord to a small business (relocating my family to do so). My old mentor and I worked together to make sure we had aligned a suitable compensation package setup, but in the new company, he doesn't have an HR team to build the offer letters. Long story short, we set up a draw and the verbiage was vague, so we talked about it and he confirmed multiple times that it was non-recoverable (meaning, I don't have to pay the company back). Well, 4 months in, I catch a big fish and exceed my expected commissions. This is how I find out the CEO of the company has thought I am on a returnable draw (that I am basically borrowing money from him). So I think the company still owes me…

I'm a hybrid worker on paper but a remote worker in practice because my boss doesn't care if I sit in a cube. On June 19 this year, I had an accident while rollerskating and shattered my tibia and fibula near my ankle. I had surgery and spent 4 days in the hospital. I panicked about the new employee I had to train who started on the 20th, and about the system upgrade that we had planned to start. No one else was able to do the actual upgrade work, because my last coworker who did this job with me left in October. The company wouldn't offer an appropriate salary for this skillset so we never found anyone with experience, the person we did hire and only experienced the system as an end user. So, like a dumbass, I took 5 days off work in total (most of which was…

Hello im 22 years old and just got a new job in retail. (Mind you that i have never worked retail before) and i had my first day yesterday. I have really bad anxiety but i try not to show it. And my whole job is talking to people and cashing them out. It was extremely boring and just doesn’t seem like worth my time for the pay and i get really bad stomach twirls and nauseous just thinking about about going in for my next shift because i dread it so much. I bought a laptop after years of procrastinating, in hopes of finding a remote job so i can leave this job before my next shift. But i have never just quit a job without good reason. I don’t want my employer getting upset with me but i also don’t want to work there any longer. I had…

65 applications total. 44 complete straight up no letter or call or piss-off rejections total. 12 interviews. 6 2nd interviews. 3 offer letters. 1 job. I start tomorrow. I don't know if this is going to work out or if it's the right place for me, I'm going to be the oldest and most experienced person in the whole place. It's a $33k pay cut from my last position. No PTO until after 1 year even though I'm salary. Benefits don't kick in until after 30 days which is going to suck since I'm already paying out of pocket for my medications. No vision insurance. They don't provide steel toed boots even though my position will require me to wear them in order to rebuild the department I'm supposed to rebuild. No prescription safety glasses provided, and yeah, I wear glasses. No office provided even though I'm the department manager.…

I have autism and couldn't survive 3 weeks in an office job before getting fired because i personally cant deal with a toxic workplace. I really can't go through the job recruitment process and fake smile my way through interviews and get rejected a billion more times. The only solution I've come up with is to go to Web development (and from there somewhere else) and get a remote job or work freelance. I dont know if that will work or not. I really have no clue because I've given up on job hunting and interviews. Has anyone gone through the IT route to any success? If so. Please share how you got out of this so I can atleast have some hope to latch on to