Antiwork

To CEOs the feeling of an employee working under intense pressure.

Let me tell y’all about the shit show I just went through before finding a new job that I think is going to be a good place to work. So I have worked in the telecom industry for about 8 years. And recently got hired as a fiber splicer for a contractor in my state. The operate in multiple states and headquarters is not in my state. I get through the interview process they express that they would like to put me as an “apprentice” for my position because there’s a technical tool that I have had minimal experience with and would need to be trained to use it before they would feel comfortable giving me the splicer position which would come with a 4$ pay bump. I accept, and they express should only be ability 2 months of training to get me comfortable with it. I will get a…

I am on full-blown panic and paranoia mode. So I have been with this architecture company for about 6 months as a junior designer. For the first 2 months I was working rather excellently. Then another two months go by, I was experiencing a learning curve somewhere in-between and then I go into iodine radiation therapy briefly. Another 2 months, work becomes slow. My boss notices I've been going to the bathroom a lot recently (I have a UTI, and I've been struggling to treat it for months). He asks me if I should be taking PTO, and I said no, I'm fine. With all the slow days happening, my boss finally takes me aside and tells me that even though nobody's been warning me or giving me the impression, that I am working too fast and missing stuff that's creating problems for my coworkers. I don't know what he's…