Antiwork

I hope this would be the right page to post to. I’ve considered posting for awhile, but opening up and asking for help can be hard. Basically I haven’t worked for almost a year now. It all started late last year when I got a corporate job that I thought would change my life, but instead caused me immense stress and made my depression/anxiety sky rocket. Jump to the beginning of this year, I had a very, very close person to me suddenly and tragically pass away. This made me resign from my corporate job to focus on myself and grieving. Now, I am struggling to find a job that I think would be best for me. Ideally I’d love to do what I did before the corporate job, which is work part time a few days during the week at an office. I know I’m very lucky to not…

I started a new job Monday as of this week and only lasted one shift. The job was for a local tire installation place. There interviews went well but were vague. They didn’t have the place organized on any level. So I start my shift to find out I won’t be replacing a driver for deliveries and instead was working in the shop as a technician. Something I have no training around, and was unaware I would be working on semi trucks. Just to make it clear, I’m 5’9” and 145 pounds on the slender side with not much muscle at all. Basically, the place was a shit show and they sent out their best people to do road related calls for stranded trucks that need new tires out in the public. Okay, I get that needs to happen. But we were swamped. The one semi truck in particular was…

Probably not the best place to post, but I don't know where else. So, I recently got moved into a scheduling/managerial position. I've made my peace with the work itself, but the job only pays $20 an hour and doesn't come with any time off (paid or otherwise) or health insurance. I live in California, so $20/hr doesn't go very far, and even the people I schedule make $22/hr. Am I justified in asking for a raise? I don't have anyone I need to support financially except the cat, but I would like to move out of my parents' house lol.

My job has been going downhill for the last several months. People are quitting left and right, and management just dumps their work on top of us. I’m supposed to be taking over my coworker’s job with significantly more responsibility in two weeks while also covering mine. I was also supposed to be promoted three months ago, but it didn’t happen because of a spending freeze. I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not I should quit for my own sanity. I’ve always been told it is irresponsible to do so without something else lined up. Tomorrow, I’m taking the leap! I have enough saved to cover a few months unemployed. It may be not be the “right” way, but I have hit my breaking point. This job is not my problem anymore.

So I got injured at work recently. I'm getting workers comp. I'm still in pain from the injury but have improved. My boss is asking me to come back and help around to do small things. This is obviously not to my benifet. How should I approach this or respond to this?

Been applying for a lot of IT jobs recently and have had so many instances lately where in a week I maybe have 3-6 interviews, all phone calls or zoom calls and try my best to schedule them around each other so none of them overlap. It's insane how many people I schedule a time and day with days before, and I understand things come up last minute, but it will be 2:30 or so right when they are supposed to call and they don't. Check my email, and the person is like “oh sorry! I'm running late today, can we reschedule some other time this week?” It always strikes me as they forgot or something but it really annoys me and comes across as unprofessional. When I had this happen just yesterday, I told the person “sorry, I scheduled this meeting around everything else this week, today was the…

Why unions matter: As a result of negotiations with the union representatives, my company recently announced that for at least the next 2 years every non-managerial employee in the country will get a salary increase to match the inflation. Also, this is independent of any merit increase you may receive. Liberté, égalité, fraternité!

I've worked since I was 13 to pay bills. I'm new at this job and have been told I'm doing wonderful. But we had an audit so everything needs to be immaculate. Because of the audit the staff was taken to a comped lunch. Except I was forgotten. I'm in here working my ass off for people who forgot I was even in the building. I'm waiting to be paid so I can even get groceries. A staff of 40 just went and had lunch while I'm trying to get done asap because I need to catch the bus and not be stuck in town. I just needed a place to bitch and I apologize.