r/antiwork

During his time in jail, Bushart lost his postretirement job and missed his wedding anniversary and the birth of his granddaughter, according to a federal lawsuit Bushart filed in December against Perry County, its sheriff and the investigator who obtained the arrest warrant.

I uploaded my perfectly formatted PDF. The ATS parsed it. It has all the information. And then the very next page asks me to type my work history manually. Start date. End date. Job title. Responsibilities. One job at a time. For every single role. And if you try to paste it, it reformats weird. This happened to me four times today on four different applications. I genuinely want to know who designs these systems and whether they have ever in their entire life actually applied for a job

I work for a mid-sized startup in a mid-senior role. It’s filled with the most toxic people, especially at the leadership level. The business head in particular is a temperamental bully who loves undermining people and the work they do and deliberately downplays the impact my work in particular has. My boss, his peer, does nothing to shield me from his constant criticism, especially when I present new ideas. All this obviously made me feel dejected, especially because I also have anxiety and ADHD (which I’ve masked my whole life).
I was super miserable until one day I just decided to stop caring. I stopped advocating for my “new” ideas, stopped trying to defend myself when undermined and let the business head give me instructions. It helps that there is a high level of dependence on me and that my boss won’t dare fire me (my team and I deliver a massive amount of work which my boss has no energy to manage) even if I stopped being enthusiastic at work.

Ever since I made the mindset shift, life has been significantly easier. I come for the pay, don’t care about recognition or getting a promotion, and will just move to the next toxic workplace and repeat if things get terrible.

My manager came into work with the flu yesterday -full blown fever, sore throat, headache body shivers. Tomorrow I have surgery to remove a fibroid which I have been waiting for since October so I called in sick today because I didn't want to risk catching something. So today I will be watching TV, reading and trying not to freak out about my surgery.

This is bullshit. That is all. Way too much time pretending to be busy in a stupid fucking office. Humanity wasn’t meant for this dumb shit.

Rant over

I think the leave was helpful, but the root of my issue at this point is that I'm completely alienated by the direction my employer has taken. Context, I've been with them for over a decade, and there was a private-equity buyout about several years ago now. Our customers have been increasingly unhappy since this transaction, and my role has absorbed the majority of this unhappiness, we're the messengers who are always being shot by both sides. The last year or so, the money-minders have really leaned into automation tools and, as a result, have rushed half-baked solutions to market that customers hate, which is another thing my role has been required to absorb, and was part of the straw that broke this camel's back.

Since I've been back from FMLA, I've had three meetings with my manager, each accompanied by an HR rep each time, and one team meeting. I've been placed on a performance improvement plan, and have had zero opportunities to speak with my manager one on one. The team meeting I attended was incredibly disheartening because it sounds like all of the bullshit that led to my frustrations before my leave have only become entrenched/gotten worse. Furthermore, the idea that their "welcome back" was primarily couched in "let's do a postmortem on all of the problems you created before your leave" really leaves me with no desire to stay with this stress mine.

My brother's employer is a competitor in the same space, and they have my resume, but there's also apparently a "hand-shake deal" between our two companies about "poaching." So, what's the right way for me to say I'm done with my current employer while maximizing my chances with my brother's, all the while reducing lost income and benefits?

TL;DR Company was acquired by PE a few years ago, shit's been getting worse and worse since. My role has absorbed the majority of the difficulty which led to me to break down and seek FMLA, and then [title].

But why stop there? Let’s stop going out to eat too. Kevin O’Leary says people spend too much on lunch. Fine. No restaurants. Also, no more streaming subscriptions. No vacations. No new phones. Let’s fully commit to the idea that we’d all be better off if we just consumed less.

Then watch how fast these same billionaires panic when corporate profits collapse and suddenly start lecturing everyone about their “duty” to spend money, consume and keep the economy alive.

Turns out the entire capitalistic system depends on borderline broke ordinary people constantly spending money while simultaneously shaming them for spending it. Consumers are apparently reckless idiots when they spend money, but heroic “drivers of the economy” the second corporate profits start falling.

And some days, she meanders into the office at 10am and leaves by noon. She WFH the rest of the day. Even though the rest of us could do our jobs from home too, we’re not allowed to. We’d have to put in an Alternate Work Arrangement request (which *she* would have to approve), and it would only be allowed to last a few weeks at most.

Edit: people, I am not hating on parents. I am hating on the fact that my boss uses her child as an excuse to leave the office early when other people here have kids, too.

Edit 2: no, she is not the owner; we work at a huge company with more than 6,000 employees across the globe (though there are only eight people on our team). She’s a middle manager, but the boss she reports to isn’t even in the same state as us. No, we can’t just walk out after she leaves because there is a tattletale amongst us. No, she has not, and will not, approve anyone else’s Alternate Work Arrangement.