Antiwork

I hate work so much. Toxic clients and managers expecting stuff to be done with a huge number of unknowns each with their own nontrivial issues to fix. I can't sleep and the adrenaline is rushing so hard I can feel my heart press out against my chest. Can't sleep and it just gets worse with every day

A few days ago, we got hit with a massive snow storm. The entire town was closing up shop, including offices in the same industry as mine. Our entire main street (where I work) let their staff go home early by 12:30pm. My boss didn’t let us go home until 3:30pm (a whole whopping hour earlier than usual). We had no clients coming in (they all cancelled) and so my co workers and I spent the afternoon watching car accidents out our windows and doing (non-urgent) paperwork. When my boss finally let us go, she was the first one out the door! I barely made it out of the parking lot before I had to swerve out of the way to miss an oncoming pick-up truck sliding in my direction and went head on into a sign street (which thankfully, saved me from going head on into a brick wall…

Convenient that Ian Jeffries leaves out it takes 25 years to see 5 weeks vacation. Holidays are not vacations. Also, it’s a bullshit that any of us have paid sick days. You get two personal leave days at best. If it wasn’t for congress intervention, they wouldn’t have given the pay increase they did. They wanted to Make it 15% over 5 years. The bullshit spin on this is sickening

Decided to switch industries lately and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made for my sanity. Worked under several marketing and PR agencies in the past decade. I can say with confidence that the marketing bosses and coworkers alike have been by far the most self-important, backstabbing, two-faced, manipulative, sociopathic, narcissistic, incompetent lot of people and the most toxic workplaces I’ve ever encountered. For some reason marketing often attracts the most egotistic yet unqualified types with minimal actual professional abilities who can’t walk the talk, but instead report to instigating the most nonsensical and petty workplace politics.

I've worked 3 jobs since high-school. 1- construction No safety equipment whatsoever No training whatsoever 6 dollars an hour for 10-12 hour shifts 2- costco No training whatsoever Terrible management that screamed at me within an hour on my first day in front of customers ( fuck you karla) 15 dollars an hour part time for 39 hours a week because fuck giving me full time Incompetent management 3- school security Actually trained People were nice until I realized it was all in order to make me scape goat if something went wrong and use me to do their job Boss was a spineless coward that wouldn't say anything to your face and would gossip instead I was the the only competent security guard and given the most responsibilities because of it therefore making me responsible to do others jobs. 16 dollars an hour to be in rain, cold and…

Just so done with working in the service industry. I’m 28. Don’t currently use my degree and have bounced around two jobs within the past two years. I only worked at the current place for like 2 months. It’s a fine dining restaurant with pretentious customers. Lots of college kids and middle aged people that have been there for a while. I just feel like I don’t fit in. Not a big fan of my managers. Only a hand full of people I actually like. I can’t be happy doing it. I just can’t do it anymore! Also, I had some drinking issues so I really need to avoid working around alcohol! Can anyone else relate to this?

My gf has a job where she works with clients in appointments at their houses. Often she goes over her hours. Apparently her boss has been adjusting her timesheets and paying her only for 40 hours per week. He didn't talk to her and tell her not to go over the hours, he just didn't pay her for them. When she confronted him, he said it was because the job specified she is only to work 40 hours per week, so she would not get paid for the extra hours. Even when she had no choice but to work OT. Is this legal?