Antiwork

I've been at my current job for 3 months. It's an academic field with a lot of prestige. While interviewing me I was shown the workspace I'd be using. It was a very nice cubicle with a lot of desk and storage space with lots of big windows and natural light. Now he wants to move me after three months in. To where? A maintenance hallway. Concrete, no windows, dim fluorescent lights, racks of cleaning chemicals and constant humming of electrical panels. Also there are sticky bug traps full of dead roaches. My boss asked me what I thought of the move and I expressed how much I enjoyed my cubicle and did not view the move as beneficial. He wants to move two other employees back there with me. I expressed my concerns but was told ultimately it was his choice. The move hasn't happened yet but I feel…

I have busted my ass for this boss who owns multiple businesses for the past 3 years. I have done everything said boss has asked me to do including physical construction labor not meant for an office employee just so they could save money. My original job description, that I agreed to for $13/hr, is office employee (A/P, A/R, filing, communications, directing calls) and for the first two months that's all it was. After that, the first year this boss spent teaching me how to do things while also piling on new things and being the sucker I am I never complained or questioned the few raises I got. Since then I do all of THE BOSSES work plus mine, I basically run all of these companies (five to be exact, small businesses) for them while they run around doing 'errands' that have absolutely nothing to do with work such…

I hope you learn one day going forward in a work or school setting that if someone inadvertently does or says something you don’t like that may have ultimately been misconstrued, you have a conversation with them about it first. Lying to the person to avoid talking about the problem, then claiming that their unintentional presence is threatening afterwards, and then going behind their back and putting their livelihood on the line, especially when they were unaware that there was a problem to begin with, is not okay. What could have easily been settled through conversation within a day or two has blown up and has been dragging on for months as a result of unnecessarily enabling an anxiety-ridden system to take action, especially one that is slow and indifferent to the well-being of its employees to begin with. Not every single person in this world is unreasonable when it…