u/Mortymoto

I’m in my mid twenties and just left my first corporate job after months of a pretty toxic environment. Basically to lay it out this family weaseled their way to the top of this company over decades to the point where they’ve pretty much employed their whole family into leadership positions at this rate. Dad is the CEO, son is the CFO, mom works in HR, and the past few months they also hired their other two sons to be in managerial positions. The one son even got arrested for dui and non compliance recently and faced absolutely zero repercussions. It was crazy.

I realize there’s probably some degree of nepotism at every company but in your experience how bad does it get? I really never want to be put in this position again.

Some background I’m 25 with an accounting degree and a few years experience working in the corporate world. However I’m currently unemployed and feel like I’m going through a quarter life crisis and am really questioning how long I can keep working the corporate career ladder. JET is something that has always peaked my interest as I’ve wanted to experience living and working in Japan for years now. It is a little daunting given the fact that I have no experience teaching and am not the most outgoing individual but I think I want to give it a shot and apply. Has anyone left their corporate life to do this? I feel like a lot of people will probably think I’m dumb for taking a pay cut to teach English but if it allows me to gain new experiences I don’t think I’ll regret it.

This morning I quit my job without notice after having a mental breakdown. This was my first job post college and I’d been at the company for over 3 years but the last few months have been rough. The company culture and work responsibilities changed a lot and I’ve been absolutely miserable. That mixed with personal mental health issues and I just couldn’t do it this morning. It felt like a blur and I completely regret doing it. I felt so bad about walking out that I messaged my boss to formally apologize for how I handled things. They were understanding and accepted my apology but damn do I feel so stupid. My anxiety is going off the rails and I feel like my career is at stake because of this. I have a zoom interview in a couple days and I’m so incredibly nervous. Idk how I’m supposed to explain to them that I quit my last job with nothing lined up if the topic gets brought up.

I’ve heard about this medication for a while and have finally decided to give it a try for when I have job interviews or social events. My biggest issue is that when I get very socially anxious it’s like my brain goes into flight mode and I can’t think clearly. Like even if I know what I want to say my mind goes blank and I start to fumble over my words and I feel stupid. Will this medication help with that?

So I have this downstairs neighbor who I think is either still pregnant or just had the kid. But anyways a few times a week this guy will come over who I’m assuming is the baby daddy and they will start arguing like crazy and he’ll be screaming really loud for like an hour or two. For a while I’ve been kind of concerned that he might become physically violent but I had never really heard anything too concerning until today. I just hear these loud banging noises and lots of yelling and crying, and I was worried that he was beating her. But then I listened closer and I could hear him yelling at her to stop hitting herself? I genuinely think the girl was like banging her head against the door/wall or something. Idk what to do. I’m thinking if it continues or gets worse I obviously need to call the cops. Has anyone ever dealt with shit like this? Should I call the management office and let them handle it? I feel like I can’t even relax in my own apartment at this point.

I have had diagnosed OCD pretty much my entire life and idk if this is directly related to OCD or not but I thought maybe I could ask here for help. I find that when I get very irritated or worked up it becomes very hard for me to move on from those thoughts. For example today on my way home from work this lady cut me off and I had to slam on my brakes to avoid hitting her. This made me feel extremely angry because I just got a new car a few weeks ago and as a result I might have got some slight road rage which I feel bad about. I feel like most people in this situation would probably get to their destination and be able to just move on from it and go about the rest of their day. It’s been half an hour now and I still feel really upset about it and even feel shameful for getting so angry over the situation and how I reacted. I’ve been trying to work on controlling my anger and irritability lately so I feel like whenever it gets the better of me I just feel quite depressed about things and can’t seem to move on from replaying the scenario in my head.

I’m 25 and have lived in Ohio my whole life, and am pretty tired of living in the Midwest. I really love the PNW region and the weather and all the nature/national parks. I’m leaning towards maybe somewhere in western Washington. Probably not Seattle because I don’t want to live in a huge city but maybe Tacoma or Olympia? Honestly though I’m open to anywhere in the region, but just want somewhere within an hour or so drive from good hiking or camping.

I currently work in industry as a cost accountant and have been at this job for 3 years now. It’s been my first job out of college so I’ve never really dealt with this before. My boss who is the CFO is absolutely insufferable and horrible at managing people. He’s the CEO’s son and acts extremely entitled a lot of the times and has some anger issues. Probably at least once a day he will throw a swearing fit and we can just hear him yelling in his office either about someone or on the phone with who I’m assuming is his dad (who acts the same way). I haven’t received a raise in 1.5 years and rarely get any feedback on my work. In the 3 years I’ve been at the company I’ve only had 1 performance review after my first 90 days. My coworkers don’t get performance reviews either, so I’m assuming he just doesn’t bother with them. Recently he just hired his younger brother to be the new controller and didn’t even bother to formally tell any of us in the department. About a week before he started he just told us that his brother would be joining the team and then didn’t even elaborate further on it lol. This past summer about 1 or 2 days every week he will just be out of the office “golfing”. His communication is absolutely terrible and half the time the people in my department have no clue wtf is going on.

Overall it’s just become a very toxic and mentally draining work environment. I’m so tempted to quit and just focus completely on finding something new. I have enough savings that could cover me for up to a year. But still in the back of my mind I feel like it’s a bad decision to not get something lined up first. Idk I really need some advice here.

I’ve been at this job for 3 years now and it’s my first professional job since I graduated college. The past few months things have been getting worse. Basically my boss is the CEO’s son and is a massive prick. He hired his younger brother to work in a position above me even though I was the more senior person in my department. I’ve been given more responsibilities the last 9 months and still haven’t received a raise in 1.5 years, and they cut our mid year bonuses the past 2 years. Now this past summer my boss has had our department doing things and responsibilities that aren’t even remotely related to our job duties half the time.

My plan is to start looking for a new job but I don’t know how long it could take. Could be 1 month or could be 6 months before I find something. Truthfully with the way my job is going idk if I can mentally stay sound for 6 more months at this job without losing my mind. It’s starting to have a negative impact on my mental health.

I genuinely want to be fired so I can claim unemployment while I search for a new job, but I don’t want to cause a scene or get fired for misconduct or something that could get me in trouble and have them deny me unemployment. The only thing I can think of is if I just start making loads of mistakes on accident and they fire me for “performance” issues or something like that.

I just bought a 2026 Subaru Crosstrek Sport and absolutely love it so far. But the one thing that I didn’t really think of is what the longevity on the touch screen will be like. I plan to keep this car for as long as I possibly can but I’m worried that after years of use the touch screen might become all wonky or delayed in responsiveness which would make it hard to use functions like the AC control or x-mode.