Antiwork

I'm currently experiencing a profound sense of frustration. I work full-time with an annual salary of approximately $80,000, while my wife juggles three jobs as she works towards obtaining her therapist licensure. Regrettably, her combined income from these positions only amounts to roughly $25,000 to $30,000 per year. We are hopeful that her earnings will increase once she secures her license, but at present, our combined annual income stands at around $100,000. Today, we embarked on our grocery shopping trip with a budget of $300, expecting it would be enough to restock our fridge and pantry. However, upon unpacking our groceries, it's disheartening to see how little they fill our fridge. We meticulously plan our meals, shop at budget-friendly stores like Aldi, and predominantly prepare homemade meals, abstaining from dining out entirely. I can't help but reminisce about a time when I was single, and $150 could amply stock my…

I am checking my companies HR documents. It says when you resign or quit that I have an obligation to fill out this checklist?? Is this legal?

Just had a chat with my dad where we talked about all and sundry. I think he'd be on our side if he weren't constantly getting fed garbage by corporate media and other boomers. He was lamenting how new grads wanted to start at 40 or 50 thousand dollars a year! (Gasp! How entitled of them!) So I looked it up for him. He had a master's degree and got a job with a nine month contract, but he was only paid $24,000 a year for that first job. I took it to the inflation calculator: $64,864.65! WTAF??? I informed him of this and suggested the new grads were not actually asking for enough. Just to be clear, for a 12 month contract, this pay rate would be $86,486.16 a year. This is what we should expect for a master's degree! Not the laughable amounts they are paying people. My…

I've been in my job nearly 10 months now, but this is something I picked up on from pretty much day 1. I'm in a small group in my company consisting of about 10-20 people, and it seems like everyone is always gossiping. Me personally, I hate drama. I do whatever I can to avoid it. I just try not to engage when I hear it. I'm actually very anxious too and always think people are talking about me behind my back, so this only exasperates and validates that fear. The team I'm on is half younger people, and then a few really seasoned people in the industry (I'm talking decades). The older folks especially just seem so… hateful towards their coworkers. Sometimes it's to their faces, “making jokes”. Sometimes it's behind their backs, pretty much just talking shit about someone in the group or insulting them for whatever reason.…

It's worse than an insincere 'how are you?' And i get it all the time. I started this job back in june and I wish I could afford to leave. It's true that it's leagues better than my last one, but I'm sick of the bankiing world. I won't say never work at a bank, it's decent money, usually decent benefits if the ones I've been at are any indication….but know if you work as a teller, and they tell you it's not a sales based position, that's a lie. I get that the pitches I'm supposed to be giving aren't products at any extea cost, but that dosen't mean mr customer wants to hear about our credit monitoring services when he's just trying to get some cash out. There's so much pressure, added with the early mornings, the long lines, I want to scream. I just want to stay…

This letter is from a current federal employee that is now facing down the looming government shutdown. Further more, I am employed as an essential employee that must still report to work even though I won’t be paid until a budget is passed. Since I have to go to work I cannot work a different job that would at least help off set the loss of my families primary source of income. The most infuriating part about this, is the members of Congress will still be paid while the members of their staff will not be paid along with the other federal workers. The multimillionaires of Congress still get a paycheck, but the people that need it the most are having their’s withheld. This fight about the budget is not having the intended consequences you planned. Each party is trying to use this process to hurt the other party, but…

Recently left a corporate job where I faced an ever increasing workload, bullying my multiple levels of management, and finally a string of panic attacks after realizing I was being penalized for taking time off. I worked in retail previously and faced assaults by customers, armed robberies, and low pay and now am back in retail. I took the most recent job after months of unemployment hundreds of applications, several interviews running 2-3 rounds only to be ghosted. I’m now back in retail feeling the lost and depressed. My time isn’t valued and my labor and currently can barely buy a meal. I’m lost, sad, and don’t know what comes next. Still applying to jobs, but feels hopeless that I would find something with decent people and pays ok.