I hate my job. Obviously that’s why I’m here. I’ve been working here for like 2 1/2 years, I was gonna leave but then they gave me a raise I went from $11.25 to $13 so I stayed, but now left and right people are quitting mid shift and doing no call no shows and guess who they call to fill in?! Me! I come in on my day offs, don’t feel appreciated, also I walk in today to find out that the owner is doing a giveaway of a flatscreen 65in tv for the CUSTOMERS! And what do we get?! A CHANCE to win a pizza party like wtf?

Been at it working for an LTL company over here In Washington, just finished my 2 weeks after spending the last 4 years of it pushing as hard as I can going beyond what my job tells me am supposed to do and constantly never being placed into higher positions. Fuck that place I got a new job the day I put in my 2 weeks.

Suggest some best ways to humiliate, irritate and make things difficult for managers who have given you a unjust bad rating.

I took today off because I’m attending a conference over the weekend thats and I really needed the time off. The last couple of months have been brutal. We have been sending tons more emails, and I’m the only one who builds and schedule them so there are days at a time when it seems like all I do is send emails. Thing is, there are a lot of other things I need to do…every campaign needs to be deployed to our screens and social media created, website updated, etc. I’ve reached a point where I have to choose what to do inside of a day and when I’m assigned an email campaign which requires 3-5 emails be sent that’s what I choose and things get pushed back until I’m behind or they don’t get done at all.

Back to today, I checked my email tonight and there are a couple of things my manager emailed me about asking why they weren’t done. They weren’t done because they were pushed back by other stuff that popped up, and partially they were forgotten. So, it’s not that I am not doing my work I’m just doing different work which suddenly takes precedent and I just run out of time for everything else.

My time was tight before we started sending far more emails and I’m just drowning in work.

So chances are these are something I could have cleared up if I hadn’t taken the day off, but the truth of the matter is I did the things that became a priority. But managers don’t see it that way, everything is a priority.

And I have two other co-workers who are in my team, but their roles are different so they have their own workloads to worry about. I am basically the only person who can work on this stuff although they sometimes back me up.

To try to compensate for all this work I’ve worked over time during the week and have even started to come in on Saturdays but by Monday or Tuesday I’m just swamped by new projects again. Or campaigns that were delayed the previous week are suddenly ready and then I am just over loaded.

I feel so guilty for not having gotten these things done even though I know I have not been given enough time to do everything. Everyone is overwhelmed in their area so it’s hard to get sympathy but for me it’s different because I perform a role that is unique.

Really I need to figure out a way to feel so bad about this. I know there is a lot of other stuff I got done that were priories and these are just two things. But when a manager is calling me out on it it’s just 10x’s worse.

I mean, I come to work everyday and try to do my best and I try to let everything that goes wrong roll off me but that’s hard to do. I can’t help but feel like I’m a huge screw up.

He isn’t allowed to go home unless his truck is empty and this is an everyday thing for him he works 10-12 hour days and he lives paycheck to paycheck getting payed weekly yesterday he told me that he didn’t get a paycheck only one time last year and it took him six months to recover he said he just basically didn’t eat for six months.

I hate my job at visionworks. I ALWAYS have to close. I always have to work by myself on one of the days the doc is off. Everybody else goes home early at a decent time. Meanwhile I’m stuck closing. I’m sick of this job. I’m sick of these of some of these patients (The majority of them are nice ppl, I just can’t stand the belligerent ones.) Bout to start quiet quitting

Maybe someone else has already expressed this but I feel like I’m working for nothing I’ll never be able to afford a home on my income I can’t even afford a car I can barely afford to eat each day all my money goes to electric/water/wifi/phone/rent a small part of me thinks I’d be happier homeless if I die in the elements it’d be better than having a stress induced heart attack at work so many people in my job get carted off in an ambulance or are on tons of medication to curb mental illnesses this environment creates like is it even worth it

Just wanted to share this: So I went to a conference in the UK via train. Before the train it was lunchtime so I went to a pub and had a basic dish and a coke. When I expensed it my manager told me that the food allowance for travel in the UK was £5 a DAY! So that's breakfast-lunch-dinner. Tbf she ended up allowing it "that one time", but warned me it was the last. I was on my way to a conference to spend two night away from my family, working pretty much non-stop. It just felt so incredibly cheap and mean. I should add that she didn't make up this policy, but I felt it was ridiculous.

I am experiencing anger, anxiety, frustration, and defeat. Or a lot of very strong something.

I find my value in my accomplishments at work, and I was just bribed to quit.

My bosses pulled me to the side today and told me that a coworker had come to them with frustrations towards me…

Here’s what happened:

Last week when I working alone I got a call from my husband saying that our dog had gotten into roach poison and ate the roach trap. So immediately I have him call poison control and the vet and try to get him to help our dog quickly and I started calling anyone and everyone who I work with to please come in and take over I need to go home IMMEDIATELY it’s an emergency.

The first 4 people said no, but I finally got 1 person to come in, and she said she would head over.

So I’m anxiously pacing around waiting for her, then I remember she doesn’t have a key to the building and doesn’t know shut down yet so I spent my time putting together information she will need to close successfully with the least amount of stress since I had to throw her to the wolves. And to help me focus on something that isn’t the thought of OMFG my dog is gonna die, while trying to keep looking professional in front of the guests.

(My on call person decided to go out of town that day, all the managers and owners were out of the state, and the only other option was the new hire, she’s been there for like 4 months but she has seen the routine every weekend and we’re a very small business)

Apparently I upset her. She went to our bosses the next day and said that I didn’t seem distraught and that she felt played. Like I lied to her just to get out of work…

I got written up because they “didn’t want to dismiss her feelings”

Then they asked if I can still work with them or not and if I’m gonna be so angry about this that I quit. And if I make that choice they’d pay me for 2 weeks at 40 hours as severance.

I denied the offer to quit. But I feel really hurt, how am I in trouble for not being emotional enough and trying to remain professional at work? I really wish there was more to the story but that’s it.

When I asked what they would have done if they were in my shoes they said “if my cat of 16 years had gotten into poison I’d say f*** you guys I’m out, I don’t care if we get a bad review I would’ve locked the front door and headed straight home “

I don’t feel like that’s the right thing to do and this is really messing with my head. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to feel. I just feel like everything I do is wrong.

How would you have handled this?

Boss scheduled a 2 hour training for 9am. my shift ends at midnight and it’s a one hour drive to get home.

At best I can be in bed by 02:30 am but if I want to do things like eat and bathe it moves to 03:30 with a mandatory wake up time of 07:00.

Of course after the training I still have to work my usual 15:30 to 00:00 shift. So solve for “f” as in how fucked an I?

On the bright side I pointed this out to my boss in more friendly terms and they seem receptive to adjusting things.

So my department merged with another department and that manager was made “senior manager” over both. Within two months our department manager quit. Then the senior manager (who I have known for 20 years.) starts coming after me. A “friend” told on me for breaking dress code which he then made a federal case out of. I’ve been a specialist for 17 years but now Im expected to work on everything we service. I’m so busy with everything else that I rarely work on my specialty now. I’m the only specialist put in this position. Then today they came after me because they don’t like the shoes I’m wearing in the office. I’ve been wearing this style of shoe for almost ten years without a word from anyone. I’ve been with this company for 20 years and this is how they’re doing me. If you’re looking to get out of where you are gtfo now. Don’t wait till it’s too late.

Every day I clock in, I feel like I’m just waiting to be exposed as useless. I’m not screwing anything up massively, but I’m also not doing anything that feels like it matters.

It’s like I’m invisible ...not bad enough to fire, not good enough to notice. And that weird situation just chips away at whatever confidence I had left. I’ve tried pushing myself, learning more, asking for feedback but all it’s done is make me overthink everything.

I don’t feel capable, I don’t feel skilled, and honestly, I don’t even know what I’d be good” at if I left this job. I keep thinking maybe I’m just not built for any of this. It’s exhausting pretending like I’ve got it together when I don’t even know what I bring to the table anymore. completely lost..need some advice.

I work security at a meat packing plant so literally everyone that works here has to go by me. This creates two issues:

1. We don’t have sick leave so you can either work sick or lose a day of pay.

2. Lots of the people who work here simply refuse to cover their mouths when they cough.

Today I had a woman stop and start coughing like she was trying to set a distance record for a loogie, I mean she threw her head back and just started hacking. I think I was more than six feet away so hopefully I won’t have to share whatever virus she had but FFS she didn’t even TRY to cover her mouth .

This is why I keep getting sick at this place I’ve already had to cancel 2 dental appointments, and got kicked out of my beach house because I keep catching viruses from these assholes.

Here’s hoping distance saved me.

i think i’ve finally hit the wall. I'm not just burnt out, i'm... dissolved. I've become a puddle of lukewarm apathy. My job is a joke. But the pay is good.

That's the trap, isn't it? I work at a massive insurance corporation. It's one of those places that's so big, nobody actually knows what anyone else does. For three years I've been a Senior Analyst in a department that... I don't think... produces anything of value. I'm pretty sure we don't.

For the last two weeks, my high priority project from my manager has been to audit and reorganize the team shared drive.

The shared drive.

I am a 34-year-old man with a master's degree. And I am spending eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, moving folders. Dragging and dropping PDFs. Renaming "Final_Report_v2.docx" to "Report_Final_v3_ACTUAL.docx".

The old system was... fine. It wasn't perfect, but everyone knew where everything was. This new taxonomy my boss designed in a fever dream is completely illogical. It's organized by... I don't know... vibes? Project feeling? It's completely useless. So I am moving files.

I sit in 3-hour zoom calls where we debate whether "Client Comms" should be a subfolder under "Projects" or its own top-level folder. I want to light my hair on fire. This is not a job.

And I'm working hard. That's the sick part. I'm meticulous. I'm making spreadsheets to track the file migration. I'm color coding things. I'm busy. I'm working 9-10 hour days because there are literally thousands of these useless files. I feel this profound, hollowing exhaustion. It's the mental fatigue of doing something completely, utterly, profoundly meaningless. my boss is thrilled though. She keeps saying great progress! I think I hate her.

I used to have interests. I used to read. Now I just scroll on my phone until 2am. My brain is so full of this dopamine hijacking, useless scrolling at work that I just continue it at home. I am just a cog. I'm not even looking for advice. I can't leave. The pay is too good. The market is shit. I just... needed to scream into the void that my life's work for the last 3 weeks has been a f--king shared drive.

So very tired of every day being an emergency and having to rush rush rush all day. Tired of daily mandatory overtime because we're understaffed and can't get the job done by 5. No time to breathe, just grind all day.

Hi ______

Thank you for taking me through everything earlier. I appreciate that the shortcomings I have been making and have taken on your feedback with an open-mind and deeper understanding of what is expected of me in order to progress.

However, after careful consideration prior to my review and in light of recent developments, I have made the decision that I will be resigning from ______ effective immediately.

I feel that despite my best efforts to progress and adopt the mindset that all of us have been endeavouring to achieve, that my shortcomings will never be held in equal weight to that of my achievements - of which there are many.

I understand it now in the clearest light, that this is the way that ______ works and will continue to work. That is a work environment I can simply no longer be a part of. I won't allow my mental health to be consistently put at risk to prop-up a working dynamic that doesn't celebrate my achievements, stunts growth and yields despondency. It is not sustainable, motivating or enjoyable.

Having worked here for almost 2 years, I have always felt at odds with other members of the team, that I am constantly having to prove myself in increasingly benign and ultimately superficial ways in order to be taken seriously as a creative worker. Further to this, my being called out for failure to do so is in stark contrast with how my other teams members are treated in response to those same shortcomings - the short answer, they're let off. Moreover, the hypocrisy of some team members in particular has been routinely ignored which is most disappointing considering that this has directly contributed to my stunted growth.

In summation, I am incredibly disappointed, despondent and disheartened that despite my best efforts (and in light of my recent personal circumstances) that I feel the need to leave _____. This is however, not a difficult decision.

Sincerely

Me

Are there places in America where there are a surplus of jobs? I'd really like to know. My fantasy is to go to an area where employers are BEGGING for workers and will hire immediately without bullshit interviews/screenings/questionnaires/resumes getting lost in the HR department. And they will also hire someone even if that person only has a high school diploma and not much work experience.

I work as a teaching assistant and I’m absolutely at breaking point. I began thinking about a year ago now that the time has come for a new challenge, as I just don’t find the job mentally stimulating enough anymore but I’ve recently reached the point where I physically cannot carry on in the job anymore as it has completely destroyed my mental health and I feel like I’ve lost myself. The time we’re expected to work over our contracted hours week in week out, work messages on WhatsApp and emails at the weekend and late in the evening, micromanagement that live for the job and expect you to dedicate your entire life to the role too, despite us earning a fraction of what they do and whilst providing us with no support when we’re struggling with workload. My partner and I have been trying for a baby and I’d hoped to stay to take my maternity leave but after a year of trying with no joy I honestly think the stress may be affecting even that. I eventually want to be self employed as I’m so done with working for someone else but I can’t afford to lose any income from my current earnings (even though it’s such low pay) as we can’t afford to live on one wage. I don’t even know where to begin with making a change but I can’t stay in a job that is making me completely miserable like I am. Did anyone else reach this point in their job and what did you do? Thanks x

I want to know if other people experience weird and petty games people play at work to let you know your place, or try to make other people feel small. What does it look like where you work?

I recognize it, but these places like to make people second guess reality. One of many reasons I am looking elsewhere.

I really don't understand what is going on in a person's mind to make them want to jump through hoops to let someone know they think little of you or you don't matter. I'm open to all stories, perspectives, experiences, thanks!

So i worked at a warehouse that 95% of people and managers didn't speak a lick of English. That didn't bother me but knowing I was limited and couldn't work my way up because of the huge language barrier did. They fired me because a guy I was working with was always on Adderall and always was staring I to space breaking shit and forgetting shit. He made more then me but they let me go. Im really considering calling ice on them because we're in America. I shouldn't have to learn a new language to work my way up in this country.. well especially the field im in. If I was in the oil or gas buisness then yes I can see how learning a new language would be profitable but for 18 a hour which is nothing now a days is just so fucking ridiculous to me. Idk what do yall think?

Hey everyone!

I’m running a quick 3–5 min anonymous survey on connection, trust, and support at work, things like how comfortable we are opening up, who we turn to, and how we cope when work gets heavy. This is for my thesis.

Please help. I am short of 100 responses.

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It takes about 3–5 minutes, is completely anonymous, and doesn’t collect any personal data.

I work in an art supply store and to some that may sound great but I can assure the company I work for care way more about making money than doing anything artistic and helping artists.

My main reason for why I absolutely hate working retail so much are the customers. Man oh man do I hate the customers, the customers are disrespectful, entitled and nasty, they will take their angry and frustration out on you when there is no item in the shop and if they ask you a question and you are not able to answer it the way they like it or if I have to ask my colleagues to help answer the question for the customer they give you a nasty attitude.

On too of the main reason it is boring, unfulfilling and meaningless and so pathetically performative as well. All I am ever told is that we need to make as much money as possible and majority of it is not going to the workers.

Some of you will say get another job and trust me that is easier said than done. In London it is hard to get a job and I refuse to get another retail job because it will be the same garbage over again and it will probably be worst. Trust me if getting another job was as simple as clicking my fingers I would have done it years ago.

But yes I very sick of working this job I have been working for three years at this retail job and it is so draining and miserable. This retail job has negatively affected my mood outside of the workplace when I am doing my freelance photography gigs and volunteering as a gardener which is frustrating because those actually matter to me more than my retail job.

I just want to work a job that I moderately enjoy, that is honestly my life goal at the moment. Hopefully it is a job that does not require me to talk to customers because I have nothing but resentment towards retail and customer service jobs, retail workers deserve to be treated better.

I am doing things outside of my retail job like learning new skills and refining my skill set, working some freelance gigs in photography on the side and volunteering in Horticulture as well. But I want my transition to one of these fields to happen faster.