Antiwork

I feel this was a pretty huge slap in the face, especially since the industry I work in has not been struggling by any means. I haven't even been employed here for a year yet, and it isn't looking like I'm going to make it to the year mark now either. I'm tired of having to fight so hard to get so little

So, I have been employed at a tech startup for just over 4 years. I have been on maternity leave the past 12 weeks and go back to work next week. Small company, less than 30 employees ATM. Our marketing people are obsessed with AI and have created a fake “business development” employee that they run email campaigns through and have also made a computer-generated headshot and a LinkedIn profile. I think it's obnoxious. But even weirder… I was on LinkedIn the other day and found the profile as a suggested connection since we “work together.” I clicked on the profile and literally, the entire about me section was copy and pasted FROM MY LINKEDIN. Verbatim. No changes. I don't even know how to approach this. It's so bizarre. The people who made the profile have been covering for me over leave. Wtf??

I worked as a recruiter/admin for a staffing company. They have a big corporate office in another state but the office I worked in only consisted of me, a sales guy, and the manager. I had been working there for 4 months and just before Christmas we were expecting a huge ice storm and I explained I was nervous about driving in it. The guys proceeded to make fun of me for two days nonstop. I also have chronic pain issues and they make fun of that. Annd they bully me for my nerdy stuff (I wanted to hang a small Middle Earth map by my desk). I’m a 32 year old female and my boss constantly talks to me like I am a kid and tries to give me what he calls “dad advice.” I have addressed all of these issues and when I say to lay off they…