Antiwork

every day i wake up, dread going to work, today i am crying because i hurt my knee last work week and it hurts still and everything just feels bleak. all day every day before the injury i’ve fantasized about getting out of work by either spontaneously combusting or swerving into traffic. are these intrusive thoughts normal? they’re impeding my ability to comfortably work my job and i just dread being there all day and feel trapped. i am a driver for amazon, if this gets me fired i’ll cry. i’ve already had several mental breakdowns at work, called in sick three times so far and been here for three months. i’ve felt this way with every single job and suffer from depression and anxiety

Here's why (not the only reason, but the final straw for sure). Video of the above linked if you want a little laugh.

Because sometimes I feel like a jerk about feeling this way. But dammit. I don’t care if they’re six Saturdays year, or one. I do not want to attend them. The reason being is because, after working 5 days out of a 7 day week, 40 hours a week. Basically, I spend more of my awake life at work with people I don’t even like, than in my home with my husband. I am not going to take kindly to having to spend a Saturday working a booth so some people can grab pens with our logo on it. I once turned down a rather good work opportunity because I found out this particular office requires employees to attend weekend/after hours events multiple times a month. I ran, not walked, far away from that nonsense. One of my coworkers, who thinks she’s a supervisor, got irritated at me because I…

Every Sunday I want to come up with an excuse not to come in but I force myself to go to work. I'd have panic attacks at work and try to hide it… so yeah, I'm going to call in sick tomorrow and then speak to my doctor asking for a week off.

Hi everybody. I’m a manager of a small team that works for one unit and originally reported up to two executives. I was hired during the pandemic with a relocation agreement that extended me some money to relocate over a certain time frame. However, the pandemic hit, and the company is wildly volatile. Over the last three years I have worked for two CEOs, three VPs, and two managers. And a few months ago we were entirely reorged— most of my employees had to resign and reapply, or lose their jobs. I lost one employee and they won’t let me replace him. And half our systems don’t work —we’ve lost access to all our history. Between VP2, who told me not to worry about relocating, and VP3, my relocation contract lapsed and nobody said anything about it. Until now. I go into the office as needed and travel extensively on…

Still trying to comprehend what’s going on here. But I’ll do my best to explain. Context: I work in a older lumber mill. (Built in the 60’s) So we have allot of older equipment. These machines we work with are constantly breaking down and causing upset conditions. So today as I’m coming into work our machines were running like crap (common problem they’ve been “planning” on fixing for 2 months now.) The man who was operating the machine at the time was dealing with this problem and had been clearing out the wood as part of his job to keep the machine going. These sheets of wood are over 200 pounds a piece. And they’re in Stacks of 30-50. So he’s manually moving these stacks by hand. As he finishes re-staking the entire load, He passes out either due to exhaustion or a combination of different health problem and exhaustion.…

I read a lot of depressing, infuriating and outright disgusting stories from the workplace here. Reading these make me thankful for what I have. I didn't come from money or power, I didn't sacrifice everything and work 100 hours a week to build an empire. I came from a lower middle class family, they helped where they could, but I took out student loans and got through university and my professional education. I'm now in a place where I'm paid well enough (there's always room for more, but I can pay the bills), treated well and have a great relationship with my management group. I have decent benefits and a liveable pension. It wasn't the easiest road getting here, but I never had to “overcome the impossible” But I'm not here to say how great work can be. I'm here to express my gratitude and encouragement to those who are…