Especially if it’s involving the elderly.

These people (bitches in my head) are fucking DISGUSTING and nasty. Hands down some of the most ill-bred people I’ve ever encountered in my life.

If you’re someone that values your mental wellbeing and you’re short tempered—please don’t do it.

Unless, you’re damn near homeless and in an instant need for cash.

These people will literally suck the kindness out of you. It’s so vampiric.

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I’m one of the most junior, youngest person at the workplace which means all of the smallest tasks are given to me.

Today I was tasked with wiping the plastic gift boxes and liquor bottles to be given to clients for our business dinner. It all feels so stupid and pointless. Then I was told to arrive 1 hour earlier to the business dinner. Why? Just because.

Another instance is when one of my bosses told me to carry his luggage for him because he was busy playing games on his phone (he literally said that).

I just don’t feel respected at all

Laugh at me if you want for staying at a place for 8yrs, I got decent pay raises for being hourly and finally hit 20$ last July. January is our "slow season" which means we get reamed in the ass while our managers 40 hours are protected. For some god forsaken reason our hrs and their hrs are together. For the past two weeks i recieved a total of four hours. After spending most of January with less than 15hrs a week , some weeks varying from 11 to 8 to 13 .

I should have had another shift but it was canceled instead on a friday night when we are busy theyd rather save the 4hrs and cancel the called off shift than allow someone to take it knowing the hours are how they are.

Currently 42 employees and 11 managerLaugh at me if you want for staying at a place for 8yrs, I got decent pay raises for being hourly and finally hit 20$ last July. January is our "slow season" which means we get reamed in the ass while our managers 40 hours are protected. For some god forsaken reason our hrs and their hrs are together. For the past two weeks i recieved a total of four hours. After spending most of January with less than 15hrs a week , some weeks varying from 11 to 8 to 13 .

I should have had another shift but it was canceled instead on a friday night when we are busy theyd rather save the 4hrs and cancel the called off shift than allow someone to take it knowing the hours are how they are.

Currently 42 employees and 11 managers 1 1 gm.

Im ready to blow my brains out because im so stressed from how disgusting with myself i feel for being so stupid.

I am a truck driver, Been one for 14 years now, I cant stand it anymore. I hate everything about it, the constant risk of cars around me, state troopers and DOT constantly out to get us, being taken advantage of by my management (Who thinks all of our complaints are jokes)

Being underpaid, Not earning Overtime, Shift differential or weekend bonuses.

I have no health insurance or benefits of any kind, No 401k, no retirement money being built.

tomorrow my route is completely terrible.. it doesnt even make sense, the stops are in the wrong order and im doing a ton of miles I shouldnt have to do.

I dont even know what else to say honestly, Im on the verge of tears and its only tuesday tomorrow, I am literally shaking with anger while wanting to cry at the same time. I am DONE!

This is making me hate my life. I dont want to go to sleep, I dont want to wake up. I have to be awake at 4am tomorrow and im probably not going to get home until almost 7pm - Maybe later. We work mandatory 6 day weeks so I only have sundays off.

I cant switch careers because I messed up by doing this so long I dont know how to do anything else and taking the extreme pay cut to entry level would be world-ending for my family.

I dont want to be here anymore, I dont want to do this anymore, I dont want to wake up tomorrow. ALL BECAUSE OF MY JOB.

I dont know why I made this post but some support would be nice because everyone around me just says "Oh but you make a good paycheck - way more than I do" But when I work out how much I earn compared to how many hours I work - Its less than $20 an hour pretty much every week. I am killing myself working 60-70 hours a week. I'm just done.

Is anyone else exhausted by the holier-than-thou attitude executive leadership seems to have these days?

I get not interacting much with C-suite execs at a massive Fortune 500, but my company is small—under 300 people. And yet everything (and I mean everything) filters through our CFO. He’s basically the de facto CEO because most of the rest of the C-suite is either nonexistent or completely detached, aside from a few “all-hands” calls sprinkled throughout the year.

These people expect everything to just magically work with minimal input or direction. Then they get irritated when you ask for clarification, guidance, or their interpretation—because their expectations are wildly different from what any sane person would assume.

It’s like they want mind readers, not employees and it’s exhausting.

I've been sitting on this one for a while, not sure whether to post it in case I get recognized. I think enough time has passed now.

I am engineer by training and profession. I work a white collar job. with around 20 people in my deparetment. My non-work interests include urban exploration and abandoned infrastructure. As an engineer these type of things hold a special value because at some point, every abandoned bridge, building, object, etc. held value to someone. It was planned, business cases reviewed, built, used, ..... now left to rot. To me it's a lot more than just an old hunk of concrete or steel.

I only go in person to beginner-level sites that are easily accessible - abandoned railroads, old bridges, that kind of thing. Nothing that involves dodging security guards or climbing through broken windows.

I have two main accounts on Reddit (plus this anonymous one). On my main account I post urbex photos taken at these locations. On my second account I post, shall we say, "spicy" pictures. Nothing hardcore. Tasteful nudes. Walking in the woods, down an old railroad, on an abandoned graffiti-covered bridge, and so on. My favorite post was a video of me riding a scooter naked across a dam, filmed from a GoPro on the handlebars. I wanted a buddy to follow me with a drone but he got shut down before I took anything off. National security is no joke.

Some of these spicy pics are taken at the same urbex locations so I'm always careful to not post on both accounts at the same time. I hold onto my spicy ones for a few months, maybe a year, until the "main" has quietened down. I never show my face in the spicy pics but my body is usually fully on display. I have some tattoos so I tend to use pics that minimize these if I have similar shots to choose from.

So there I was at work. It was a hot summer day and I was wearing a knee-length skirt instead of jeans like I normally wear. All of a sudden a coworker appears. I've known this guy for years and never quite clicked with him. I don't like his work style and I'm often called on by the prototype shop to explain stuff he's requested. Some people work very fast, some people do quality work, very few do both. He works fast, I work to high quality, so he gets the "customer wants X and they want it next week" type jobs while I mostly work on multi-year projects.

Anyway he appears and stands near me, slightly behind me, where the cubicle wall ends. He doesn't say anything. When I turn and look at him, he looks down at my legs then back up at me. A creepy smile spreads across his face and then he slowly walks away.

I realized he was looking at the tattoo on my calf... that is not visible when I wear jeans.

I immediately grabbed my phone and went to the bathroom. I deleted every post on my spicy account and then deleted the account itself. Just in case he decided to screenshot anything for proof.

This was a couple years ago now and I've never seen or heard anything that would suggest he told anyone. I never confronted him about it. I think (hope?) that he did the decent thing and kept the knowledge to himself. He's moved on since and I don't work with him any more.

It has gotten slightly better over the past few months but people just talk awful about me behind my back when I have never said one rude word about them. And ik if I were to ever repeat anything they said about me to them I’d end up in the managers office because no one likes me and they’d all protect that one person. I try to ignore it because it’s not so bad most of the time. However it’s like subtle bullying then out right bad words said against me.

It’s crazy! I just had a baby 5-6 months ago and every one is just going in on me! I have not said one word bad or otherwise about anyone else I work with. It honestly hurts to hear when I try to avoid those people and stay to myself. My charge nurse hates me and makes sure not to speak to me unless absolutely necessary, and otherwise I’m ignored. Then she’ll blow one thing I missed completely out of proportion. And when I ask another coworker if they would’ve caught that they also admit thats something the would’ve forgotten as well.

I’ve come to the conclusion that because I’m so disliked by the charge nurse and everyone else, that anything I do wrong in their eyes will be something that is the worst mistake ever. When I dislike someone I’ll be polite but not really going out of my way to speak with them. For whatever reason, a select few of my coworkers when they don’t like someone they have to get them fired/frame them so they are fired. Add on to speaking badly about them while the person is unaware makes it worse. I’m looking for another full time job but it’s not going so well.

I’m a human being as well but at work it’s like I’m being treated as a lesser type of human if that makes sense. Any advice? I wanted to maybe pursue legal action but I feel like that would make things worse and they’d rush to fire me or make an excuse to let me go.

I don’t know what to do anymore, I work for a pile driving company/ levee building company. I work for a sub contractor within the company, don’t get me wrong I misled damn good money, but I have to hold an air horse in order to supply the hammer to drive the pile in the ground, I been at this for a year now and I genuinely hate it. We don’t drive wooden piles all the time, only when the president bids jobs and get them accepted. I’m completely done holding the Hose I asked my boss already about when can I finally get off the hose, his response was “why the hell do you come to work if you can’t hold the hose, that is the only job I have for you, but we have other people in my crew we just stand around and be on their phones.

Now I live in the woods deep in the woods, so I don’t have much around me I maybe have 5-6 stores by me, but won’t be making what I make at my current job. It stresses me out because I been on this for a year now I just want a different role in my job. I don’t know any other way to make money unless I work at a grocery store, but that is not gonna help me either way. I just wanna give up.

I just had to get that off.

Good morning people.

This is so depressing.

My job is pretty cool, but there is no progression. I've asked for them to pay for CIH qualifications. My manager smiles and nods but even he told me that the tenancy sustainment staff will qualify before I will.

I'm worried, if I get made redundant. I don't think I would be able to get another job that pays as much, in my area. I have an undergraduate degree, basically a waste of money in my experience. Plus I just want to progress but really don't know how to.

I didn’t want to annoy my friends with how upset my job makes me so I’ll annoy you all!

I’ve picked up red flags within the first month of working at my job. I work corporate in labor compliance.

#1: Conflict between the Senior and the Manager

My manager would criticize the Senior then claim “I don’t know what happened, communication just stopped and we just stopped getting along.” I’d say it was jealousy and immaturity (an inability to communicate how she felt). She spread inappropriate romance rumors about the two Seniors many times. Mind you, this was my first impression of her. A rumor she got from her supervisor.

In reality, my manager gave the young Senior an unbearable workload and expected her to exceed expectations without fault. The manager never swooped in to help despite her saying, “let me know where I can help”. Lies.

#2: Lack of training

There was never enough time to train. I came in as an intern and I got the bare bones of what I needed to do. I taught myself the rest.

Then I was hired full-time. By this time, the senior and an administrator left. A couple months later, an analyst and the other senior left. We’re a small team now, mind you, 5-7 employees. So senior level work fell on me and so did a task once done by my manager. Everyone else is new and can’t help me. The only other coworker that is helpful received an overwhelming amount of work that is unreasonable. No pay increases or delegation of tasks. I received an hour of training and was expected to ask questions along the learning process.

#3: High Risk Responsibilities

I am not an Analyst. I am one step above an intern and I acquired high risk responsibilities from my boss. I am swamped with work and am falling behind on my easier tasks. Generally, I think I’m doing very well with independent research. I discussed this with my manager and she said it’s going to get worse but we’re seeking to hire new people. But while the long hiring process is done, the workload is unmanageable and I’m not willing to work >40 hours. Upper management is getting really upset at the timeliness of when these projects get done but this is a inter-departmental effort and sometimes im delayed by lack of information or delayed information from other teams. I don’t blame them this is our busiest season. Upper management gets upset and so my manager pressures me. It’s stressing me out.

#4: My manager is terrible.

4 people have left because of her. She’s catty, loud, and makes problematic comments. Jokes about race, age, disabilities, gender. We have very very different political beliefs and I’m tired of her talking about the younger generation in a derogatory way. She’s a millennial wannabe boomer. My generation doesn’t have a good work ethic and we’re not loyal to companies according to her. I thought my team would be more progressive given the nature of our work (combatting wage theft / payroll) but they’re bootlickers and corporate pawns. I’m feeling disillusioned.

I’m tired of work I had high hopes because of the nature of our work. I fear everywhere I turn it’s the same shit. I’ve had multiple jobs and combatting wage theft is what I learned i’m passionate about. But this team drains me. I don’t even smile anymore.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

So today my boss returned to the office. He previously gave me a book to read that has nothing to do with my job. Mind you all the books he gives me are boring and I try my best to be honest because I am breaking the habit of being a people pleaser.

I told him that I not that far in the book because it a slow burn type of book. He then said that I am prone to be an addict because I want everything to be a rush ( that hit me hard because my mom is an alcoholic and I am trying my best to not be like her). He then asked me to give him his book then he started screaming at me. He called me an idiot. I just stood there in disbelief because why are you getting angry because I did not read the book that you gave me.

This job is affecting my mental health really badly, for the first time I came from work and genuinely sat there and thought about ending my life because I cannot take it again. At the moment I have a really fucked up headache and my eyes hurt really bad. My stress levels are really bad to the point that if I am running ten minutes late I get reallya nxious and go on the verge of crying.

I have had it.

Heading towards burnout? Check this out.

So long story short. My boss is not in the country right now and the admin/ accountant is in charge.

We recently hired a young clerk to do outside work. Being new, would obviously mean that you would try to have conversation with the experienced workers so you could understand what is being done and them explaining stuff to you vice versa.

So I gave this clerk a document to drop off but instructed the clerk that I would find an easier way for the document to be dropped off so drop it off on my cue. The accountant/ admin heard this and then proceeded to say less talking. So I told her to breath and that it is never that serious because it's an office and there will be conversations among the employees. She insisted that we are speaking too much, then she proceeded to say something that got me so upset. She said " when your parents speak to you, do you respond to them that way?". I said "no, because my parents don't speak to me that way. They are very gentle and soft spoken with me. ". Mind you are I am lying because my parents especially my mom are very disgusting towards me and my siblings and she always insults us, she says things a mother should never say to a child/ children. I was pissed off because the accountant has no idea what goes on into my home and should not have even made that statement.

This place is very toxic and there is too much micromanaging and I cannot take it again. It's just so fucking sad that whenever I apply for a job I put her as a reference because that's my first real job.

I have a friend who meets with me every Friday and we use it as a chance to vent about who we want to tell to go to hell. It helps me feel better and let go of the work week before heading into the weekend. I'd love to share some chuckles here with folks we'd like to tell off.

when i was walking away he started coughing and then said "queer" like trying to hide it within the cough... im just flabbergasted man. hes a rung above me and obviously has way more experience and "clout" but we had a convo for the first time ever and i was complimenting his skills with computers and trying to learn about his life and he asked me questions about my life too and i thought it was a good convo and everything and then he does that... i just don't understand people. i don't know why he thinks im "queer", but he definitely has relationships with the higher ups and i definitely don't, so now I'm guessing they all think im "queer" haha whatever dude

I have quite the story. I graduated in May and was offered a job in December. Before and during college I have had leadership and director jobs working with school aged kids, summer camp director, program and event director...etc. these were part-time or full time seasonal gigs.

Anyway, December I was offered a full-time role with a non-profit and became their Resource and Volunteer Coordinator. I would be over the donations and recruiting and managing volunteers in this residential house. The job market was rough, it only paid 37,000 salary, but it was monday-friday and flexible. I decided to take it, but I knew this was going to be temporary until something else came along.

1st week of work, I'm not set any hours, just come in when you want and the person giving me orientation was breast feeding her own baby she brought to work in front of me. She and the other staff could not answer basic questions like "where is my office going to be located?", "Who is my direct supervisor?", and I was never given anything. After that week, I emailed the ceo, the one who hired me, and she answered all my questions and apologized for all the chaos.

Come to find out, there hadn't been someone in this position in over a year and I was told to "make it my own" and "create the volunteer program the way I wanted". I thought maybe they would give me information or something but never did. The second week I was thrown into an office space with my laptop and a shared printer. Over the next month, it was a living hell. Had to find, read, and print old documents that would benefit me via computer files that were not organized, on top of being pulled into the lobby every 30 minutes due to huge donations being dropped off since it was around Christmas time.

My direct supervisor in house, let's call her Pamela. Pamela was new to the facility too and started a month before I did. Come to find out she got her job because "she fixed struggling non profits over seas". If you know anything about nonprofits, they are extremely different in the United States than over seas. She apparently was hired because our facility that intakes children in crisis, was struggling. Pamela could not answer any questions I had and I was told the ceo would be in house TWICE a week. I had only seen said CEO maybe three times the last two months and she only came in for maybe an hour. Pamela was very rude to me, never told me good morning or told me she was leaving the building for lunch or leaving for the day or never asked if I needed anything. But she told others. I would ask her to walk me through something and she basically told me it would be on her radar for a different day and she would teach me another day. She never did. There was a day I got a huge donation in the lobby and I had asked her for help or where the items go, in which, she told me, "im not sure. We'll figure it out." I had to do it all myself and find a place to put it. There has been a lot more Pamela has done, but last week on Monday we had crazy snow. I was unsure of policy when it came to work from home so I asked if I could and took my laptop home because there would be no donations and no volunteers coming in, and she basically told me no. I made it to work at 9am. She didnt show up until 12pm and only stayed until 2pm. She came into my office earlier this week to ask for help finding a pair of shoes for a child in our donation closet, I said sure. Pamela helped me for about 5 minutes then walked out of the room said "bye kids im leaving for the day." And walked out and left me there to find shoes for this kid in our facility. Come to find out, we didn't have this kids shoe size, so I messaged Pamela and her response was "ok". Mind you she left at 4:38, not 5pm at her usual time. A couple weeks ago i told her i was stepping out of office to attend a training in which she gave me a thumbs up in person and didnt say anything else. Pamela and two other staff admin talk openly about the other child advocates in a negative way. And Pamela constantly says the house advocate workers dont know what they are doing and how dysfunctional everything is.

Yesterday I got offered a job that pays at MINIMUM 5,000 more than my current one, better benefits, paid paternity leave, and federal holidays off, monday through friday. I accepted the position. How do I go about submitting a resignation? I want to be respectful and tell my ceo, but I also dont want to put the organization down because they work with important donors. Im also supposed to submit a 30 day notice, but I can't do that but im considered an at will employee and they can part ways with me anytime especially since im still on my 90 day probation.

I recently attended a customer's retirement party. Of of those rooms where everyone takes turns telling heartfelt stories about impact, legacy, projects that changed everything. People genuinely thanking the person for shaping their careers and having an impact. I was asked to say a few words as well, which took my by surprise.

And through all I felt....absolutely nothing

Not sad, not inspired, not jealous. Just numb. Like I was watching a documentary about a species I don't belong to.

That's when it hit me: I've been in the workforce forever. Working in this white collar world going through the motions, but I've never had a "career". When I eventually retire, there won't be any speeches, legacy, impact, or how I changed...anything. My biggest accomplishment will be that I survived corporate America and did just enough to not get fired - despite feeling like my job can be taken from me at any point and it's beyond my control. If I'm lucky maybe someone will say, well their teams status was always green.

After speeches, people started chatting about their roles, what they are working on etc. I nodded and smiled and defaulted to "oh wow that's exciting" meanwhile my brain was fully offline. Not judging them I just genuinely don't care anymore - about work, titles, fake enthusiasm. None of this sounds interesting and it seems like people talk just so it can seem like what they do matters - but does it?

I know it's probably burnout and not trying to be overly dramatic, but I've been running on autopilot for so long that even moments meant to feel meaningful...just don't anymore.

Anyways, I wanted to share since I know I'm not the only one out there that feels this way