Antiwork

For the few that saw my post about Dollar General being awful a bit ago may remember how I feel about the place. Currently, in my eyes, it is one of the worst places you could ever work in. And yes, I've heard the horror stories of other places. Spectrum, Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. But I can say, with full confidence, that I'd rather work for any of those places than go back to Dollar General. I'd much rather go homeless. So anyways, here's why I left. It's the usual thing involving putting in your two week notice. Not getting enough hours, pay is bad, just in general not being in a good mental spot. My manager (great dude) understood, even said that he was surprised it took this long for me to do so. I already had a job lined up at a gas station I had worked at…

So, I recently started a student job in s consultancy firm with the contract stating 8 hours a week, but so far, it has always been 20 hour weeks, and very hectic. Corporations are trying to squeeze out the cheap labour of students, instead of hiring someone full-time to actually do the tasks. I am fucking pissed and tired, I am essentially working, studying or commuting all day, and in the weekends I have to catch up on studies. I really want to quit. (I live in Denmark)

Quick background: work in doing taxes and accounting at a firm of 20. But I’m the only one who does returns, etc. i worry they will close. Also boss is having a baby tomorrow and i feel bad giving my notice same day. That being said, if i looked at her wrong, she’d fire me. Very volatile sometimes. Should i feel guilty about leaving?

When my work can be done fully remote but they want their moneys worth they invested into our offices. Im so alone here and I miss being back home so badly. Im extremely depressed and have even taken time off specifically for mental health stuff. I honestly don’t know how much longer I can stand it. The kicker is that i love my job and it pays so damn well. I don’t want to lose it. They love me and don’t want to lose me but won’t let any of our team go fully remote. So now I have to lie about some sort of family emergency requiring me to move out of state in the hopes they’re desperate enough to allow me to stay remote. I don’t know what else to do. I’ve applied to almost a hundred jobs with a majority of them receiving my resume edited to…

I took a job at a leasing office to learn the industry. And, to be honest, the job has been a sea of red flags so far. The general business model works like this: rich dude gets a cheap government loan to build fairly nice apartments and offer the bulk of them at a discount to low-income folks. At the end of the loan's life (15 years) he can either refinance his government loan, sell the apartments, or refinance them as traditional apartments with market rent. The latter two will make this dude way more money and he is not required to keep the housing affordable. Unless he is a goddamn philanthropist (he's not), it's a disgustingly clever way to get the government to pay the construction on your gentrification project. Problem is, the low-income stuff doesn't cash flow, and the owner wants to expand his empire. So he has…

For the last year my depression has really grown. Because of jobs who don’t get back to you, judge you from the minute you walk in because i have some tattoos, the bills keep piling up, & i just feel fucking miserable. Ive been actively searching for a job that doesn’t may min wage for about 4 months now. I have tons of manager + restaurant experience so i thought it would be easy + i venture into different thing like graphic design and i have companies telling me basically that i need to spend my whole life in a specific field to get a job that only pays $18 an hour. I really thought it would be so easy to get on my feet but it just feels like im working my life just to give money away. Car registration is $300, rent, bills, I literally lived the most…

For context, i work overnights 5 nights a week 10 PM-6 AM in a 24 hour gas station that has a kitchen that sells fried food and breakfast food all night. The issues started a few weeks ago, I had a mental crisis and ended up in the hospital for a week and a half, if you've been fortunate enough to never have gone through that, it's very difficult to get access to your cell phone. Thankfully, they let me use it to update people. I texted my manager and assistant manager to tell them i was in the hospital and wasn't sure when I'd be out. Well I get out, that same night my coworkers call me asking if I can come in cause someone called out and there was only 2 people to work the kitchen and hot bar on the third busiest night of the week. They…

Title. Union is already organizing. It's insane, our company is large and gets hundreds if not thousands of new graduates in Engineering, the new ones will be making 3/4ths of what the ones from last year will be making. This also includes current junior staff. I said this was stupid, we'll drive the talent away… then I found out it's happening elsewhere too in the industry. What's going on??