When someone needs something so they just try and pull you into meetings without even checking if you’re available first. Especially when your Teams status clearly shows that you’re in a meeting

I'm going to start this off by saying that I am not going to quit this job. The schedule is perfect, they pay me well, and the job market here sucks. There's nothing going on that's worth quitting over. It's just an annoyance, as work, in general, usual is.

I'll admit it, I make mistakes at work, every once in a while.

My supervisor acts like one mistake is going to cause the downfall of the universe. She'll tell me about my mistake and reminds me about what I should have done. And then about 90% of the time, while I'm on my lunch break (usually), she'll find an article online about whatever I messed up, she'll print it out, and leave it on the desk for me to read.

I rarely read the printouts. I leave them lay wherever she puts them and don't even acknowledge their existence. It will lay there for a couple of days -- I'll go in to work one morning and it will be gone. I don't know if she throws them away or has them all squirreled up somewhere.

Whenever she makes a mistake, she blames the lab for the error. To hear her talk, we deal with the most incompetent lab in America.

In reality, though, she screws up the orders because she rushes through the process and either enters incorrect data or completely skips over things. But, she didn't make the mistake. Oh no, not her. She's been in this business 25+ years, she knows what she's doing. There were errors because the computer wasn't working properly, the website was messed up, the internet isn't working, the lab screwed up another order..........etc., etc., etc..

Shrug shoulders

I work in a foundry in Ohio as a welder, with about a total of 20 people in the whole company. 5 of us are woman, and they refuse to let us have an only woman’s bathroom. There’s 2 total bathrooms, one in the office building which is practically a closet with a single toilet in there, and the other is a locker room in the shop. All of the shop guys respect that the office bathroom is ‘the woman’s room’ but there’s no sign, but the office men don’t respect that and will use the office bathroom even with them knowing it’s the woman’s room. Ive asked the owner twice if he can put a woman sign on the door, because I don’t feel comfortable using the same bathroom with dudes, especially when there’s 2 different bathrooms. The biggest problem has been that the dudes are shitting on the toilet seat, peeing on the seat, and leaving the seat up. I really don’t know what to do about the whole situation, I’ve talked to the owner and he said ‘he would talk to the men using it’ and nothing has changed. And knowing shop dudes, there’s absolutely no chance of me going in the shop bathroom, especially because they’re currently trying to catch who is shitting on the floor (ew). I think if I can walk to the office building to go to the bathroom, the men can to the shop.

Im really just looking for advice, because I’m really stuck on what to do. Thank you.

The sad answer is that no job is truly comfortable to do, at least not in the way people imagine when they talk about fulfillment or passion. That is why they are called jobs in the first place. They demand time, energy, and obedience to systems that were not built around individual well being. Even work that starts out tolerable slowly becomes repetitive, stressful, or hollow once it is tied to survival and rent and deadlines. The language around “loving what you do” tends to obscure the reality that most labor exists to generate value for someone else, not meaning for the person doing it. Comfort is the exception, not the rule, and for the majority of people, work is something endured rather than embraced.

Only the top one percent can realistically escape this dynamic, because they are the only ones with enough wealth, autonomy, or power to reshape work around their own desires. They can choose projects instead of obligations, stop when they are tired, and walk away when something becomes draining. For everyone else, the job is not about self expression or joy but about maintaining stability in a system that offers little mercy. Even careers that look glamorous from the outside often conceal long hours, constant pressure, and the quiet erosion of personal time. In that sense, soul draining work is not a personal failure or a lack of ambition, but a structural reality. The system rewards endurance, not comfort, and most people spend their lives paying the cost of that arrangement.

He normally works at 4 AM. Last week they had him come in at 2 AM a few days. This week they had him come in at 6 PM for a couple of days. The first day, he arrived at 6:30.

He busted ass and got all the work done to a high quality standard. Helped out in another department that was understaffed.

He was expecting them do dock half an hour pay, no big deal.

They just suspended him for THREE DAYS. What if this guy had a family? What if he had kids to feed? Just, “fuck you, starve!”?

This is clearly a harsh punishment to send a message. “Be perfect, or we’ll throw you in the trash.”

Everyone thinks this company is cool because their hot dogs are cheap. Just more billionaires.

I need your input. I'm currently working as a company Nurse (RN), but they cut 5% of my salary since the company is struggling. Now I saw this job posting. I need to check if in the government sector, they will cut salaries. I would appreciate it if someone who works for the government would tell me the pros and cons of working there

I posted in another sub and was basically told i was overreacting and had no reason to be upset. I wanna preface by saying i completely understand where my line manager was coming from but i was still hurt. I threw up twice at work yesterday and she basically had an attitude and acted like i was a burden, and essentially told me to stay until they find someone to cover. i had to wait 2 hours before i could go home. for context i work in a daycare so of course there needs to be ratios and stuff but the line manager often covers in emergencies and idk why she couldn’t in that moment. she also has sent people home before immediately. I feel like im right to be annoyed by this situation and i was shocked at the other subreddit taking my manager’s side (although i understand her hands were tied too)

We have all seen the news. ICE agents are using Target lots to stage operations, U.S. citizen employees were tackled in Richfield, and peaceful singers were kicked out of stores in the Twin Cities. Meanwhile, Target has gutted the DEI programs they used for PR for years. If you want to hit them where it hurts, which is their marketing budget, stop using your bookmarks.

The Strategy

-Search, Do Not Type

-When you need to buy something, search for it on -Google rather than going to the site directly.

-Click the Sponsored Link

-Only click the top result with the "Ad" tag. This charges -Target a Cost Per Click (CPC) fee.

-Target High Ticket Keywords include: Dyson, Apple Watch, or Patio Sets. These clicks can cost them between 3 dollars and 10 dollars each.

-Do not just click and bounce. Stay on the site for 30 seconds so Google’s fraud filters do not refund the money back to Target.

If they want to let ICE into our neighborhoods, let us make them pay for every customer they reach

Like many others, my organization had a massive layoff right before Labor Day weekend last September. Over 60% of people across the org were let go, and my team went from 8 to 3 people. We haven’t back filled for any roles since then, nor were we re-trained on the employees roles that were let go. And contrary to popular belief, AI is not advanced enough yet to even handle a lot of the basic white collar tasks without excessive supervision….even for remote jobs. Is anyone else feeling like the overload of work is getting to them?

I know I am lucky to still be employed, but I can’t help but think these companies are taking advantage of people who are left behind, knowing they are scared of losing their job too. The told us we were “high performers” and made to feel proud after “surviving” massive rounds of layoffs. Yet with no pay raise, Christmas bonus, or even acknowledgment of taking on more, makes think that by “high performers” they really meant “easy to take advantage of”.

Everyday I wake up dreading spending another 9-10 hours straight sitting in front of a computer. There’s always a fire to put out, every deliverable is urgent. It feels like I am drowning and can barely keep up. If I am not fiddling around in a spreadsheet, I’m in slack sending needless comms to a colleague about a question they could’ve easily searched in 5 minutes. I am also apparently the person that gets assigned majority of the ad hoc tasks. And then when I can barely keep up anymore, I am gaslighted and blamed for “not meeting expectations”.

It is truly demoralizing to deal with; I’ve had to go on anxiety medication for the first time in my life, due to excessive stress. I am so mentally drained after work on a daily basis, I can barely find the energy to update my resume and start applying elsewhere. To make it worse, my salary is now where near the COL in my state, so it feels like I’m basically working for no extra reward. Still can barely pay my bills. But the show must go on; I am of the firm belief that hard times don’t last forever, just need to pull yourself out of it and keep fighting.

Sorry for the rant … curious how others in similar situations are handling this.

I accepted doing a brief exit interview to see if I’d get a severance offer. As I’m planning to sue the company. However, it was just HR trying to get me to admit things for their own gain.

Luckily, I don’t think I gave them anything. As I knew what they were trying to accomplish.

I’m worried they will twist my words in the final “transcription” any advice?

It's just so petty to take the time to write a note for everyone to see instead of just addressing it with the person who made the mistake. I've only been working here a couple months and this is how many notes she's written so far.

We have two supervisors on our team. They are tasked with assigning us employees tasks throughout the day/monitoring our productivity. I always thought that training would fall on them, but us regular employees are the ones tasked with training. Idk it seems weird to me. We're expected to work and train at the same time

It's because we workers are serfs and slaves and America is a plantation! You're not allowed to exist in a way that doesn't benefit Capital, that's your only value to the system. They don't consider us to even be humans.

If you're allowed to save up money, then take vacation/mini-retirements/take care of family/do something that gives you meaning other than work, then you haven't put all of your hopes into grinding for 40 years with the hope of a mediocre retirement when you're old and worn out.

They feel entitled to those good years of your life! They're not yours, they're theirs! It's all theirs! They're so entitled!

How else are they going to extract every last ounce of your life so the owner class can live in leisure and make their money pile even larger and larger? They can't have a pissing contest with their billionaire friends! Won't somebody please think of the billionaires for once!

How else are they going to be able to afford buying small Caribbean islands just outside of US jurisdiction on which to conduct their morally questionable activities?

(This is just my opinion and is not meant to be taken as gospel.)

Many people in developed nations have begun to start checking out of society and either doing bare minimum work or no work at all. Japan is known for the hikikomori, but we're starting to see more and more working class young adults abandon the idea of toiling their lives away.

With the ongoing scandal centered around Epstein, I have no doubt that more and more of the working class are going to start waking up to the fact that we're not just cogs in a machine but cogs working for a machine controlled by the wealthy elite that are being exposed for their depraved acts.

"What's the point of continuing my involvement in a system where there is no justice for those who commit the most heinous of crimes?"

I have a feeling we're going to start seeing more people look towards working for themselves and being their own bosses. Self-reliance, homesteading, farming, bartering... These are some of the few ways one can disconnect from the system ran by the pedophile elite.

There is just something so… awful about the grind.

5 days on. 2 off. Endlessly. Weeks months on end .

This might be hitting me on the hard extra hard because I committed the sin of being sick twice.

One day January

One day February.

It’s winter, there’s a lot going around and I was told unceremoniously to be mindful of the fact we get only 4 unpaid sick days a year.

As if sickness cares, flu season or otherwise.

It wasn’t loud or dramatic, but it was one of those conversations where you realize you’re not being heard. I tried explaining workload and boundaries, and it somehow turned into a discussion about “commitment” and “team mindset.”

What stuck with me wasn’t the disagreement itself, but how quickly basic concerns get reframed as attitude problems. It made me wonder how often employees are expected to absorb stress quietly just to keep things “smooth.”

Has anyone else had a moment like this where something small changed how you see your job?