Antiwork

Wake up before the sun has even thought about rising, drive 45min, be there at this time, take a break at this time, lunch, break, now you can leave, drive 45mins back home, get home with zero energy, motivation, enthusiasm, time. Constantly told when and where and how to be. Is this shit really worth it? Then, forced Saturdays! My life is not my own, and I will never be rich or happy. I get 1 or 2 days out of 7, and one of those days is spent filled with anxiety and depression, because the next day is Monday. Christ! I have to know! Is this it? Is this the best life has to offer?

I feel like a whiner but here I go… I work for a Fortune 50 corporation. I have excellent pay and benefits. I should be happy to be here for the past 10 years. I have checked out a bit after not being promoted due to policies beyond my control and watched less qualified persons get ahead. My current job allows be extreme flexibility because we are in a project lull (work at home 2 days/wk), come and go as I please. My boss is in the same boat, can retire any day he wants, and has checked out as well after 30+ years here. He has been discarded by the new leadership and shoved in a corner. The rub is this. I have come off 9 years of crazy project schedules being the top guy on the project as the Project Lead. I loved it but I got burnt…

Fuck restaurant work lol, it's soul crushing as shit and physically terrible for you and I'm so glad I'm done with that shit

Help! I have been at my job for 2 years. I was hired as an engineering administrative assistant, but I actually run the front desk/lobby. I do technically work for engineering and do their purchase orders. The plant I work for is apart of a global company and our site has over 1,000 employees plus hundreds of contractors. We have a whole department that is locked down due to sensitive technology. All this information adds to my question. HR has decided they no longer want to be in charge of the badge system or keeping track of the contractors. They are passing the duty on to me. I was “consulted” but none of my questions were addressed. They made the final decision to move the system to me while I was on vacation. I am wanting to ask for compensation for this new job duty. I want to ask in…

Okay, this may be rather long but try and stick with me. I’m not sure how anyone is meant to survive in the current state of the U.S economy. I’m 19 and just getting started in the grownup life, and I’m genuinely scared for my future. I’m not sure if I’ll even have a roof over my head in 5 years time. I’m not going to site my sources because that would triple the length of my post, but let me break it down. As of August 2023, the avg. American makes roughly $20/hour. Let’s suppose you have a partner to help you navigate this mess of a world. That’s $40/hour for 40 hours a week. That’s around $4,480 a month after taxes. The avg. rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is $1,750 on the low end. That’ll leave you with $2,730 a month. Utilities such as water, electric, gas,…

I have been with my former employer (small company with 3 employees) for more than 10 years. It figured it was time to move on, because I now have family. I applied for a position much closer to my home. I went through 2 interviews, got an offer which I accepted. This included an enormous pay bump. Since this is not happening in the US (I'm not a native English speaker, so forgive my mistakes in wording and grammar 😉 ) , the most common notification period is 3 months, but not for me. My contract said, I need to give 4 weeks of notification. This is unusual, but fully legal. So I called my boss 8 weeks before starting at the new job, out of respect for the long time we've been working together. As you can figure, he was not that happy (losing one third of you workforce),…

This happened a few years ago but I saw a post that reminded me of it and ya know what? I'm still mad, so let's go. Disclaimer: long post, I'm on mobile, blah blah blah, English is my first language so no excuse for poor grammer. Fall semester of 2019 I was taking a fast track CNC certification course at a local college. For those that don't know, CNC machining is basically a trade job where you run a computer controlled machine to cut parts from stock material. While taking the course I got my first machining job but since I was still learning all they would let me do was load parts onto machining pallets. It was pretty boring and everyone else there seemed depressed but not the worst job I ever had. So while working full time and going to class, I found out my wife (gf at…

We have 10 vacation days a year and i only used 6. Upon requesting another day for some shit I gotta do, it says I only have 5 vacation hours and made the other 3 bereavement. Department of Labor should be called in I'm thinking?

So, Two weeks ago, I (26m) lhurt my back at work. I am a blue collar worker. And reported the incident. Last week I spent the week sitting in the work truck, icing and stretching my back. This week I spent at home, paid, icing, some heat, and stretching my back. It got bad enough at one point I couldn’t walk one night. Sometimes it hurts a crap ton and other times it doesn’t hurt much. I’d describe the pain as labour, exhausting, and sometimes sharp. The pain is in my lower back up to my mid back and radiates into my rib cage on the right side. Anyways, tonight it hurts to breathe. I feel like they don’t want me to go to the doctor and just rest it out, but it’s been two weeks now. Should I give it more time? They said I should just rest and…