Antiwork

I am leaving my office job of 9 years due the stress and pressure I am under. Long story short, one of my very experienced colleagues retired in September, and I took on many of her duties as we have two new starters that aren’t trained yet. When she left, my job post was put up a grade. This left me with around a £400 pay increase per year as I went from the top of the previous grade to the lowest increment of the next grade up. I asked for my pay to be increased (within my grade bracket) because the new starters are on the same pay as me even though it is their first ever office job, and I have 9 years experience plus a relevant qualification in my field. My line manager agreed to the pay increase verbally in December. I had to remind her a…

My heating costs have stayed roughly the same. The costs from working at home far outweigh the benefits of working in the office, especially since i eat from home, no commute, etc. Who was part of this poll lol

So for an unimportant reason, I have two part-time jobs instead of a full one. I found out it has an interesting dynamic. I am not fully dependable on either slavemaster and it gives me a little bit of unique leverage I did not have before or rather they do not have such power over me and their threats have almost no weight. Their typical threats are to touch your wage or fire you (again, a different form of wage threat), and such threats I got yesterday when I was caught on the phone during working times. I was already fed up for the day and I snapped “Sure, I do not mind, I have other incomes so fire me even”. He did not expect that, he just stood there with the expression of fish out of a pond and left after a silent minute. Full-timers there normally bow down…

We were filing my fiances taxes last week, and I noticed that the federal tax field was blank. I asked her if she had her last paycheck stub from 2022 to see if they had been taking federal taxes out. They had been. I told her to contact payroll or accounting to get a fixed w-2 to show she paid taxes. When she went to work to ask for this information, other employees had mentioned the same thing happened to them as well. I told her that they all needed to report this if this has been going on for years. I told my fiance to hold off on filing until she gets the fixed w-2 and for the other employees that this has happened too over the years, they have a limited window of time to report it to the IRS.

I quit my retail job; i was gonna leave on the 4th of March but due to getting sick every month i was told to write myself up [i was still paid though] i am actively trying do find a new job; but i surely wont settle for retail anymore it's just too much. I don't know if this subreddit is the correct one but i would like do have some advice on where to apply [i have had temporary disability in the past; but i haven't been able to prove it to the country that im indeed disabled fully] for note to anyone reading this: I am European