Antiwork

Original post : Not senior enough to be promoted but senior enough to train the new senior person English is not my first language. I followed your advices and I resigned the following week! When I gave my 2 weeks notice, my boss was really surprised, she didn’t expect I would take such a radical decision over a job title. She told me that everyone in the company knows that I’m doing a great job and this was the most important. That I shouldn’t care about it. When she saw I was serious about my resignation, she offered to change my job title but not my salary because I got a merit increase this year. I said no, I don’t want this type of “promotion”. I needed recognition for all the hard work done these past 2 years and hiring someone externally for a senior position to do the same…

A couple of weeks ago I started a part-time job at a small business in my area. I thought it would be better than working for some big retailer. I worked a few shifts, was told that they are very happy to have me, and then a couple of days passed. I then get an email from the owner basically listing all of these ways that I need to improve. None of this had been mentioned while I was working. So then the owner just decides for some reason to arbitrarily wait to let me know about all this “feedback” he has, which not only includes things that are contradictory to what I was initially told at the job, but also nitpicks facets of my personality that can't be easily changed. An example is that when I was hired, I was told to greet customers when they come in to…

I want to travel the world and do all these things, but you can’t do anything without money it seems like. I want to live an anti-work life, but i don’t know how I would pay rent or do anything that costs money.

So were already having to work xmas this year. Its a retail gas station that serves food. Am I a scrooge for not wanting to pitch in 20 dollars for secret santa? I already give this company most my time. Now it wants me to chip in my hard earned cash? My coworkers call out a lot and i cover for them. They pick on me a lot and I dont like them enough to buy them a gift yet were a team and they call me a friend.. i really dont like this. It feels imposing and prices on everything have gone up and times are hard. Mind you my work isnt enforcing it. Its just peer pressure and i dont like it. What do people think?

I've been employed for around 8 months. In that tike, I worked around 3.5 months worth of unpaid overtime.. before I took the job, I informed my boss there was rhe condition that I have time to prepare for my phd defense, which he said was fine – plan was to do this in the evenings. When I arrived, I was immediately working Monday- Sunday. Leaving most days at around 11am and starting st 9am (I'm paid for 36 hours a week). I never had time to prefer for my presentation of course, so I ended up spending 5 days before the day preparing for it. My boss was hesitant to let me do this but in the end he said fine. I just went to submit my Christmas holidays and he said, well, you don't have any holidays left. I was confused and when pressed, he said, yeah you…

Currently work overnights in healthcare security, and good lord am I fucking tired of it. I already have another job lined up and I’m set to start in about a month. Now because I haven’t called out whatsoever in the 5 months I’ve worked here I have accumulated a good amount of sick leave I can use to give myself at most a week off before I quit, I just need to know what the best way is to do so. My employers require doctors notes if I call out for a illness related reason, but other than that there’s nothing else they can require as proof. So, what’re your thoughts? How should I go about this so that it’s believable?

This is unimportant in the scheme of things but I just gotta get it off my chest. In my industry it’s a huge norm for people to use their social media (mostly Instagram) to connect with work colleagues and brand suppliers and promote the products we sell. It’s like free advertising that you’re just expected to do. No one has said anything to me about it, but I’m constantly getting follow requests from professional contacts and it irritates the hell out of me. I mostly post selfies and dumb shit and pictures of my cats. It’s content for my friends, not for work. I let coworkers from my same company follow me, cause I’m cool with them, but then I see them posting about our brands and it feels so bootlicky. /rant