Antiwork

I have been consistently working 12 hour shifts, doing extra work while injured, covering my fellow coworkers, signing myself up to work short days and sacrificing my time and best efforts into this job. I don't want to kiss my own ass, but I put time effort and personal funds into my job because I believe in working with pride, especially in my job where I'm helping my community; and after all my efforts for a year my coworker was promoted over me. She has had a history of an inability to do her job; sudden last minute call outs, bare minimum to nothing work ethic, caught multiple times leaving sidework for others, or leaving her shift early all together; crying in the breakroom because someone spoke loudly to her leaving me to tend to her work. She cannot write tickets properly, does not communicate with other staff, and does…

I just want to vent about this after working for a corporate company for 5 years and how I “was quiet quitting” at the end of it. I apologize in advance for the long post. I worked for a small store front in the gaming industry. Very sales oriented. For background, I am a woman(it’s male dominated), I was a top performer, outsold pretty much every counterpart and eventually wanted to help others improve. For the last 18 months, maybe 2 years, after covid shut down happened and we reopened, I had been helping multiple stores. I was stepping in where store managers had quit, interviewing, hiring, training, etc. I realized at some point, I could move up and handle a district, so I kept doing what I was doing, all without extra pay. The pay didn’t bother me, I was bored staying in one store and liked helping/training others.…

i work in furniture sales, and it's my first ever commission only based job. i was aware of the process before i was hired, i'm not upset about being laid off. i was told what numbers i needed to hit, and i wasn't able to hit them mostly because i'm not a very pushy person. it's not the career for me. my issue is, every single person that was hired after me, which is 7 out of our 11 person crew (we have 3 managers, i'm the most senior associate), refuses to learn what i taught myself about all the little intricacies about our company in the last 7 months. so, in the last seven months i have been pulled off of the floor to train other employees and help them close sales. in the beginning i was fine helping and training, now they've all been here about four months,…

I currently teach at a university, but the pay is insultingly low. I applied for the post of a part-time English trainer at a large company to make ends meet, with the idea that if things became too much, I could gradually work corporate full time. During my interview, I was candid about the amount of time I could give them, which was matched the 20 hours they needed with the exception of the rare university events here and there. They were very enthusiastic about me and the fact that I had some previous experience with corporate training. They called me in a for a demo class, and it went well (was up till 2 AM making slides). The managers were super friendly, but then began to hint at preferring that I join there full time. I mentioned that at the moment I was looking for something part-time (as their…

I’m already dreading it every single day. I hate the whole “teams” set up. I hate the corporate jargon. I hate the most that you are always expected to chime in with everyone even if it’s completely unrelated to work, because if you don’t you will be an outcast to the entire team and management. I thought maybe I’d be able to grow these skills, working in an environment like this. But I just don’t think I’m a right fit for this type of job at all. I would rather be back working at an Amazon warehouse again.