Antiwork

This has been the worst year of my life. Lost my job in January after believing in the lies from a start up company. After 8 months and well over 1000 applications later I finally found an ok temp job. I've become depressed and angry over this year. I've done everything I can think of to try and keep my 2 kids from seeing me like this. I don't want them to know how bad I feel. How much of a failure I feel like. My wife is a stay at home mom. After doing the math years ago we decided that was best because childcare in the US is so expensive. But because she's been out of work for so long she wasn't able to find work either. Thankfully my kids were able to go to school this year, which really helped. Looking at the school shooting numbers has…

A friend of mine is a barista and she found a new coffee shop in town that she prefers to the one she works at. She talked to those owners and they want her on, better pay, better hours, better environment, but both owners have a really good relationship and she doesn't want to make it look like the new owners stole her. How would y'all go about letting the boss know she's leaving and moving to the other shop? Also, the current boss goes to her church which she feels like things would get awkward there, but I told her that feelings have the potential to be hurt somewhere so to just do her, but she wants to kindly let them know. Thoughts?

I moved cross country for my husbands work in jan 2019 and applied as a “property manager” at a real estate company. The ad read more as a regional/ asset manager so the job title alone was a bit confusing. When I met with the owner of the company he pivoted and described a new position as a community manager for 3 buildings for a new portfolio they were about to get. Since the position and portfolio were new I didn’t entirely understand the position as he didn’t have it fully fleshed out but accepted it. A couple days in I figure out this position is in no way right for me since I has always worked more in a back of the house capacity, this was face to face interactions and leasing etc. I convinced the guy who was basically the owners right hand man to let me have…

I'm not going to call it “quite quitting”, I am going to call it “growing a spine”. I currently work in a job that is both my career and a hobby. I've found that the individuals I work with are totally switched off, they've been in their roles for 10-30 years. They do the bare minimum (or less), have no interest in skilling up to today's standards, and do not care for the work (Most have been shuffled from unrelated teams through either mergers or because they were problematic). For the past 3 years, I've put in >100% effort and my manager has identified this in my yearly performance assessments: I help other colleagues do various tasks (some of which they should know) I'm constantly the point of contact for colleagues' questions I have Senior members of my defer to me for help and sent me tasks that are “too…

For instance, if you were working for a fracking company or a cigarette company.