Antiwork

So yeah, that just happened and I need to rant. I work(ed) at a place widely regarded on reddit as a company that takes care of their employees. I thought I was working completely fine (in fact, I know I was, every other person I know there thought I was doing good), but I came in today and the manager took me away as I was walking to my work area and took me into an office and fired me effective immediately due to “slow pace”, despite working through all of the busiest periods of work. I really don't know why he fired me of all people, I started with someone else who makes mistakes all the time and she wasn't fired and there are people who do almost nothing all day who just get left alone. I sat in my car after as I was really upset and about…

So I work at a bank and we had our yearly shareholder call going over 2021 results. They said that we had a 13% growth last year and this is our 6th year in a row over 10% growth. Then they went through our key areas of improvement, then HR talked about recruiting, COVID. Then the COO came on started talking about staffing problems and how the great resignation has been a big hit to the entire economy across all job markets. His explanation was “Engagement” people are leaving because they are not fully engaged by their work. He didn't elaborate on what the buzzword means, just that people that aren't engaged are more likely to seek other opportunities. Let me expand Mr out of touch executive, on why I'm looking for alternative employment First I'll admit the positives 1 my direct manager is a sweetheart and treats us well…

I work as a software engineer for a multi-billion dollar company. I honestly hate it but it would take a wall of text to explain all the reasons. All the decisions about returning to the office are being made by people (literally) 9 steps above me in the org chart who work in a different city. My boss, his boss, his boss, etc all agree that returning to the office is stupid for our particular responsibilities (sit and code all day and have zoom meetings with teams in other cities) but they have no real authority or even input on the decision making process. For the past six months or so we've had huge problems hiring new people and for the past 3 months we've had huge problems with good people quitting. I told my boss we should just pay people more because of how much better salaries had gotten…

I have been thinking of posting my story for some time now. This happened about 10 years ago. I used to work at a small advertisement company here in my country. One of my coworkers had lost his wife and son in a car accident a few months before. It was beyond tragic, the poor guy was really struggling, as you can imagine. He took some time off to grieve but when he came back his work wasn't up to the company's standards anymore and after a couple of weeks they fired him. He went up to the roof and jumped off our 12 story building. I was outside and actually saw him die. I was 19 years old at the time. A crowd gathered around his body and an ambulance was called to take him away. I don't remember all the details because I was so shocked at what…

I'd rather not feel helpless. I want to know there is a better future ahead. But I don't know what that looks like, and I don't know what I or your average joe can do about it. Someitmes I just feel like we are all fucked and I don't know how to change that

Do I need to mention this was the worst company I ever worked for? And that the owner was always crying poverty and talking about how much money we were costing him, yet he was always taking trips and looking into buying a yacht?

I'm a 18f working at a pretzel stand in a mall . I also earn tips which can be ethier good or complete dog shit . I earn 11 an hour Recently my hours have been cut because 2 workers were fired and the mall hours were cut . What pisses me off is we are charging insane prices for stuff . 3 pretzels and a few drinks for a family can cost sometimes 20 bucks or more . I'm mentally and physically drained from working for the bare minimum to pay for college. My best chance at this rate is quitting my job and finding something where I don't have to count pennies and figure out what bills I should pay or put off .

I posted yesterday about how my toxic boss reprimanded me in front of my coworker (B) for “gossiping”. B had told me some information about our toxic boss that caused me to be concerned she was going to not play by the book when terminating an employee (I'm a HR assistant). I emailed corporate about this before it would get out of hand like it has done in the past. Well our toxic boss called B after work last night to tell her that they “can no longer be friends” and that B was untrustworthy. Now today at work our toxic boss has told B “its not your fault this happened. Its mine for confiding in you”. Super toxic and emotionally manipulative. I reported her for this behavior and so far nothing.

I live about 35-40 minutes away from work. I get off at 2:30 and have a dentist appointment coming up at 3:00. I asked my manager a month ago if I could just not take my 30 minute lunch that day and then leave 30 minutes early. This was approved. Now the day before the app. I asked again to make sure that they remembered that I'd be leaving early, and was told that, even if I didn't take my lunch, I'd still receive points for leaving early. So instead I'm just using a vacation day tomorrow. That way I get 8 hours of pay, get to my app. on time, and not get points. TL:DR “We'll punish you for working seven and a half hours, so instead just don't come in”.