Antiwork

So I (21F), used to work at a local farm during the summer of the pandemic a few years ago, and boy did it show me what horrific management looks like. Brief background: I had been taking a hefty summer course (physiology is a beast) to make my fall/winter semester light. I was doing my 2 years undergrad, shooting for a pharmacy program, so I needed to do decently well. However, school is expensive, so a part time job seemed to be warranted, since I only needed half the day or half the week to get my schoolwork in. Hiring in my area was “year-round, 3 years of retail experience” workers, so I figured I could work for our family friend, Eric. Turns out Eric is a micromanaging, slave driving nightmare. I figured if I wanted to complain to the world about this minimum wage slavery, this sub was the…

I received an invitation to apply for this job. Never in all my days did I think I’d see this in real life.

I was a restaurant manager for 6 years until a few weeks ago. I told my boss that I was looking for another job as a courtesy to her, so she fired me. Restaurant managers, as I’m sure most people on this sub understand , do much more than someone hiring in an office setting would consider. I ran an actual business for 60 hours a week, hired, fired, onboarded, trained, made schedules, ordered supplies, dealt with the general public and vendors, marketed, ran payroll, created reports, etc. in addition to cooking, serving, bartending, hosting, and bussing for no overtime, under market standard salary, and minimal benefits. My mom is an office manager/head paralegal at a law firm and is willing to give me a reference for dates/position I want and pay me under the table so I can still get full unemployment benefits if I do reception work for…

I submitted my resume to a potential employer and received a call at 7:45 pm leaving a voicemail to discuss the position. I feel that calling well after business hours for a professional position is an automatic red flag that my personal time would not be respected. I can no longer pretend it is ok for employers to not respect boundaries. This seems this is an issue in my field (legal).

Research on familicide killers has identified a clear pattern in these perpetrators: they are males in their 20s and 30s who are “family men” without a criminal record, who experience an economic failure that they see as irrecoverable and shameful. There is basically zero chance that mass layoffs of working age folks in a country that's allowing Andrew Tate's messages to thrive and spread won't directly result in increased family annihilation killings. I'd love to be wrong on this. But the conditions are absolutely rife…

Hi, my fiancé just found out he'll be losing his job at the end of this week. The company he's worked for for about 8 months now (after leaving the job he'd worked since he was 17 to start an apprenticeship) just let him know their contracts in our area were up and his only options were to take a traveling position with them where he'd relocate every few months as they get new work (generously paid, but not his cup of tea) or quit. I'm advising him not to sign anything or submit any form of resignation but I'm not sure where the line is drawn when they did offer him an opportunity to stay with the company. We live in KY if thar helps, but state of employment is OH. I know the job market's not as great right now as it was when he got this job…

I’m 29 weeks pregnant and miserable at my job. It’s normally fine but I’m so uncomfortable physically and my manager has started to get upset I’m not as fast as I used to be. I called out last Sunday even though I had no PTO because I’m mentally and physically exhausted. Now I’m worried I’ll be fired. If I’m fired idk what I’ll do. Thinking about it makes me want to die honestly. Idk what I’m looking for here. I guess I just wanted to vent.