Antiwork

This may be the wrong place to post, but I didn't know where else to ask and it's driving me mad. I basically am looking for validation as it's been a while since I started a new job but something tells me the way I'm feeling isn't normal. For context, I now work as a dog trainer/ kennel carer at a small business. A typical day is kennel cleaning, organizing feeds/ medication and getting all the dogs walked and socialized. However, the place always seems to be on the brink of disaster! The manager is always having mini meltdowns and ushering me into individual “meetings” where a large portion of the conversation is him talking shit about the other dog trainers and kennel assistants. He complains about how disorganized the place is and says it's their fault (hardly surprising, as there's been pretty much NO training!) He also tells me…

Im 50M working for a very large corporation that has slowly become very toxic at the systemic level. All the managers, including my own as of last month, have been replaced with passive, manipulative, two-faced people. I don't need to go into details but in short, it's become so bad that I have insomnia, nightmares, and feel physically un-well everyday. And of course HR does nothing to help. Unfortunately, this industry has contracted steadily, so all the good jobs for competitors are gone. And my skill set is highly specialized so transferring it to another subject is nearly impossible. I have a good financial situation but the challenge is that I'm locked into a home. They pay me $120k/yr but I have a mortgage for a $500,000 home. With inflation, my prudent reserve has shrunk to $5,000. I have ~$225,000 in my 401k plan and if I sold my home,…

We are busy on a project that starts next week. I am meant to be training someone to help me, which i have been doing, but this is the first time i handling a project like this and this guy is just as overwhelmed as I am, so I did the prep work and walked him through it all. My manager asked my why I am not letting him help me with the prep work and I said because I know what is going on and I'd rather show him as I go step by step than him prep stuff and well.. too many cooks spoil the broth. She then said to me: “If you dropped dead tomorrow, would he know what to do?” I feel like resigning, am I overreacting?

As a highly educated job seeker with many years of experience in a variety of environments ranging from the military to education to technical theater and even call centers, I find the response to my job search puzzling. It has become clear, through hard earned experience and lost opportunities that the job-hunting process has become a codified and staged process devoid of nuance and critical thinking. First an advertisement for a position is released. Something that seems to be more of a press release for the company involved than a description of duties and skills desired. It extols the corporate ‘vibe’, community and supportive atmosphere of the institution while seeking an impersonal and necessarily incomplete representation of how the applicant might fit into the corporate puzzle as the completing piece. Second, is the resume submission process. Crafting a set of keywords and achievements that might match whatever elusive tangible requirements…

Hello, my other half has excruciating pain every day of her life from a medical condition (on a high dosage of prescribed painkillers), she had a surgery appointment booked in and time off work but unfortunately the hospital cancelled. Since then the hospital have given a new date and my partners work won’t give her time off for this surgery to end her pain which could result her going back on the waiting list for months. Is there any advice for us please? UK based if that means anything. Thank you

I’m from South America so I was used to see this in there…but here in Australia, really? I work for one of the 4 big banks, our marketing assistant resigned because my manager and other ladies were getting her crazy, and my manager advertised the position…for a week. In a way to avoid rules, our new marketing assistant is under the NSW manager, and 90% of the team is in VIC. Things could been normal, but trying to work with her is “my mum told my I would get discount on this”, “my mommy told me to ask you”, “I will work on that when I have time, my mom gave me another task”. She is 26, I’m 29 so the age gap is nothing, but the salarial one is bigger, and even funnier she works part time whenever she wants, while we do 7-3. There is no way I…

Throwaway since friends know my regular username. I'll refer to my employer as “Co”, manager as “mgr”, and our supervisor as “super”. Tl;dr – Co decides to rollout company-wide change immediately instead of waiting until January, forcing 20+ people out of a job with no severance. Voice concern to super, who says it's my fault because I was unhappy with the changes. ​ Background 1 – I help manage an apartment complex in a major city, and we recently had a change of ownership. Previous owners had struggled to make the property profitable for years, and I was able to kickstart marketing to reach >90% capacity in under a year, and hit 99% the following year while also correcting the bookkeeping. This helped them to sell the property for a nice profit, and reached an agreement with the buyers to keep me on at the same pay with more annual…

Im not sure how to feel. Although it's mostly warranted, it also would've been warranted months if not years ago. They just fired him when it was most convenient for them (we're not currently completely understaffed like usual, and our off-season just began). Which I get, but it still feels shitty to me. At the end of the day even if we made the company tens of thousands of dollars, they will still get rid of us if the upper management doesn't like us. And the shittier employees that management does like, will never be punished. This is why I refuse to ever move into management. I will never value a company's reputation or profits over a single individual's livelihood, I refuse to.

Our company has 3 full time employees, I am the only non-owner among them. As most of you know shit has a way of rolling downhill. I have had shit shoveled on top of me in this position as the only subordinate for 2 years now. Lately I have adopted an idgaf attitude and started letting my feelings be known in real time. “hey don't throw your trash on the floor, we have 7 trash cans and I am the one who has to clean up after your lazy ass” type of stuff. Tonight my boss comes up to me and says “I don't want any of your attitude tonight” I stared at them for a few seconds and walked away without saying anything. I have been at my breaking point for months now, I am seriously considering walking out tonight. What Do friends?