Antiwork

Watching my company's quarterly meeting and thinking there should be a drinking game for this (not actually advocating drinking alcohol at work, just blowing off some sarcastic steam here). Take a drink every time… ….the CEO talks about how the company made SO. MUCH. MONEY. this quarter again – yet employees didn't get raises or bonuses at all in the past year …the speaker not-so-subtly shits on remote work, remote workers, or how they really need to start coming into the office …speaker tries to “pump up” the crowd to lackluster, scattered applause ​ Anything else to add??

My organization (a hospital, the kind that endlessly advertises all the do-good work they’re orchestrating on local television stations) is notorious for underpaying long-term employees. I’m a program coordinator at my organization, been with the organization six years. They just hired another program coordinator. I’m 99% sure she is making more than me. Would it be totally crazy of me to ask her if she’s willing to tell me her pay rate? I would tell her up front that it is TOTALLY LEGAL to talk about pay, and that I promise not to mention to management who told me. I know a lot of people would just tell me to leave, if I feel so underpaid. But I have a pretty bad anxiety disorder that makes me terrified of job interviews! I also have a mostly nice manager, flexible work schedule, slow-ish work pace, and generally friendly coworkers. This is…

Most often I see quotes like: “If you want to succeed, be prepared to be alone.” Many say that you need to educate yourself and exclude rest, parties and gatherings with friends. But I have a question… How do people live who do not study anything, go to parties, do not work anywhere and, as it were, burn their lives, but at the same time rise from the very bottom? (I’m not saying that I’m right, I worked at least once, but after another failure, I needed time to recover). Perhaps some of you are one of those people.

Hey everyone, I'm going through a difficult time and could use some advice. Now, I recognize the responses I get here will be a bit bias (given the name of the sub and all) but I just need some input. I've been working in very stressful IT jobs for a while and honestly I'm sick of it. Burnout is real. I've done some job hopping in the past and discovered something about myself. I'm not burnt out of a job, I'm burnt out of the industry. I feel like I need to take a break from working and just enjoy life. Not a vacation, not a holiday, a full on break. I'm thinking 3-ish months. Aka, I want to quit my job and just not work for 3 months. I've done the math and I can afford it financially. I have some passive income and a decent savings that I…

Like I’ve injured myself (twisted ankles, deep cuts, etc.) and have just had this mind set of “well it’s not the companies fault it’s mine so why would I report it?” I mean it’s be different if something fell on me, but otherwise as long as I’m alive and moving I would never file a report with the mindset I’m in the wrong. I think my worst was working a shoe warehouse and I just dropped a pallet on my foot cause my dumb ass decided to see “what would it be like if I didn’t wear shoes” (I was 18). I had a bad foot injury for a year but I could still walk so never said nothing. That and it was my fault.

First time poster, and I'm on mobile, so I'm sorry for formatting. It's a long one, I'm sorry in advance. Little background: I (26F) work patient registration at an outpatient doctor's office. At least, that's what I was hired to do. I applied as a Scribe, but they offered me the registration gig with a promise that in six months we could reevaluate positions. I was desperate for work, and they offered the most money I'd ever made so I took the job. It was fine at first. But two months after I was hired, they opened a second location closer to my home, and they asked me if I would be willing to cover until they hired someone, then I could return to the main office. I said sure. So, with only two months training, I went and opened a new office as front desk alone. As business picked…

Every year for as long as I've worked here, January is the month of reviews, bonuses and raises. But not this year apparently. People have been pissed off now for about a month waiting for some explanation or anything as to why nothing has been announced. We had a meeting last week and management said they're “working” on something for us but “we're all going to have to make sacrifices this year.” Mind you, my company has had record profits and new contracts..how do I know? I HANDLE ALL THAT SHIT! I walked out of the meeting pissed off and took the rest of the day off. I was later told some others followed my lead and did the same. Anyways, Monday came and work atmosphere has been hostile and you can cut the tension with a knife between employees jeering off and bickering. Today is Thursday and the owner…