Okay, so I'm disabled. Ambulatory wheelchair user, partially deaf, autistic, and (although I'm working on it) selectively mute due to PTSD from my parents selling me into trafficking. I'm also smart. Like HS valedictorian, currently testing out of college, outsmarted human traffickers, taken down corrupt organizations in a month, taught myself to read at four, read lawbooks for fun, and won national/international essay awards kind of smart. I'm also 23, a woman, and was have been described as "brunette marilyn monroe but with curves" on multiple occasions by multiple different people. More commonly, though, people just call me "tragically beautiful" (which is so backhanded. Ugh. I hate that line).

I am so tired of people acting like I'm incapable just because I'm in a wheelchair. Like oh, wow! Imagine someone actually has to problem solve and do things in unique ways! This highly adaptive problem solver must be inherently unhireable because she can't walk!

I apply to jobs and they. Baby. Talk. Me! "You see, sweetie, this is a full time job. It's very hard." Like bitch? I am a full grown woman trying to make a living! Cut the crap. "I mean, your portfolio is very impressive. I just... Are you sure you didn't have any assistance with this?" ???? Why would I put work I didn't do in m^ portfolio??? Then I just do the work again right in front of them and they go quiet for a moment before it's. "But still... don't you think this work will be a bit challenging for you, honey?" "We have some very heavy things you may have to xarry. What if you need to carry a box of paper to the copy machine? Could you lift it?" Then I say the obvious: Take the paper in trips. There and back. If I have my wheelchair, I'm a living cart. Just put it in my lap and roll. Not that hard. "But can you use a copy machine, honey?" Yes. "But you need to stand up to use the copy machine." I can stand up briefly and run the machine. Then I can sit and work while it prints. "But isn't that so complicated?" Just basic problem solving, really. I'm quite good at that.

And then there's the creeps who literally say they'll let me "hang around" if I "sit pretty" and "indulge them" every once in awhile. Often while trying to get handsy. Like! Fuck no! (I ruin their lives, of course, because I work in marketing/PR and I am very, very good at my job. Justice is nice, but it doesn't pay the bills most of the time. Although sometimes I get a nice check in exchange for signing an NDA)

I am not a s*x toy! I am not a lost child! I am not a liability! I am a full grown intelligent human being looking for a job! What is wrong with people?

Anyways... I'm testing out of most my college classes and considering switching careers. Any suggestions for fields that are mostly desk work and aren't as ableist? I'm currently working towards a Communications degree, but it's fairly easy to pivot at this point. Only tested out of gen-ed so far. Next 3 or 4 months I'll be doing self-paced online courses as fast as I can to knock out another 40 credits, so if I'm going to pivot then now's the time.

Hi all, I am from India and the situation is very bad, the working class is getting squeezed due to inflation and a bad economy. We are the youngest country in the world but we do not have any job for its youngsters, no social security. Most Indians are just one terminal illness away from poverty.

Meanwhile, Due to AI the industry which employed most Indians has started laying off people. The jobs market at this time has to be the worst.

I think the in late stage captialism countries like us will suffer the most

When reporting misconduct becomes the very reason your career is targeted, the timing and context of every single complaint matter.

In my federal case against FedEx Office, one sentence from my manager captured the core tension of the entire dispute:

“In order for me to approve you for any promotions, the HR stuff, that has to stop.”

Read that statement again.

That is not a casual remark.

It is a direct condition: a manager explicitly tying my career advancement to the complete cessation of internal EEO reporting.

I was utilizing the company’s own anti-harassment and EEO compliance framework—using the precise terminology provided in HR policies to report targeted harassment, hostile behavior, and aggressive conduct.

Yet, when the dispute reached court, the Fifth Circuit drew a highly technical line between my earlier complaints using company HR terms and later complaints that explicitly contained the words "race" or "racial."

In other federal circuits, courts apply a totality-of-circumstances approach, recognizing that a continuous series of reports through company EEO channels constitutes protected activity. But under a hyper-restrictive technical reading, an employee’s reliance on the employer's own policy language can be completely disregarded.

The fundamental legal question isn't whether a workplace was simply "unpleasant." It is whether an employee who follows company reporting procedures in good faith is protected from having their career held hostage by management…which is exactly happened to me.

We need to pay far more attention to how corporate policies and judicial interpretations intersect—because no worker should have to choose between their career and their statutory right to report pervasive harm.

When courts allow employers to insulate themselves behind technical phrasing requirements—even when a supervisor blatantly states that HR complaints must stop for promotions to occur—the reporting process itself becomes a trap...A Corporate Language Trap.

The relationship between HR policy promises, supervisor accountability, and legal protections deserves far greater scrutiny than it currently receives.

As employees we should have consistent application of federal employee rights despite the circuit, despite the court.

A recession in almost 20 years now!! Because of the fact we've printed trillions in that span and have added $25 trillion to the debt. This has spared politicians, on both sides, from having to make the tough decisions that would come with economic downturns. Another words...can kicking.

I know the subreddit is antiwork but I need a job I don't know what to look up for those remote work from home jobs I just need some help or else I'm quite literally fucked

After criticizing my work online I became upset felt bullied honestly. Was asked to leave the Teams meeting. Came across a recording of the two males shit talking me after. Is this considered a toxic work environment?

Be me (I can’t be the only one who has ever gone through this)

Me 41M (autistic fully employed)

I want to work with my best friend again, in a heartbeat, but his job history is horrendous.

Met him at my first-ever job and worked with him, for 8 years.

Diligent, hard worker, funny, relevant, chronically online (same) can talk/joke about anything, always knows what’s going on etc. During our time someone always had to be in the mailroom, so I opted for that and he ran around the office, mail checks, pickups etc.

Being mailroom workers, we had three in our team for 5 years, then our boss got made redundant and then it was just us, for 3 years after that. I got made redundant in 2018, and got another job 2 weeks later (my current) he unfortunately got fired 3 weeks after I left. During that 3 years we never had roles change, improve or salaries get “boosted” no one was “boss” “manager” it was business as usual just with two instead of three.

His words to explain the firing (they accused me of stealing, I didn’t, the workplace after you left was so toxic, I needed to leave, I saw this as my out, I didn’t fight it, I fell on my sword) he didn’t get a redundancy even.

At my new job, current team is amazing, no vacancies there are 6 of us, we are full. Every time a job comes up it is never for our team, and thankfully it’s accountants or lawyers so never our kind of work.

I would work with him in a heartbeat, but…

In the years since he got let go, he has never held down a job, he bounces around everywhere he goes. Unlike me, I officially got a diagnosis in 2011 shortly before I started work, I believe he is the equivalent of Typhoid Mary, spread it but not actually have it, his two kids are on the spectrum, and his wife doesn’t work, so anytime there is anything wrong at home, and I mean anything, he drops everything and goes home to take care of it, his loyalties and priorities are not turned toward work, instead of work being the priority his mind it’s family, when it comes to work he is Vin Diesel, it’s all about family.

Now on anti-depression meds, and thinner than ever, I want to help him.

The number of times I was left alone because he had to go home is insurmountable.

Commendable? Yes, trustworthy? Yes, dependable? Yes but not for work if there is an emergency at home.

I just don’t know how, hypothetically, if ever a job/position came up, and I was asked to recommend someone in short notice, if I even would, because trying to explain, his track record and the very quick “bouncing around” from job to job doesn’t look good from a hiring standpoint.

I don’t want to lie to him, but I don’t know what I would do/say if ever confronted with that potential scenario.

This story is a few years old but still makes my blood boil.

So to preface this I need to tell you about my former job. It was a 5 man operation. A small MSP that serviced the needs of a few local businesses. There was always cash flow issues, late/partial salary payments but somehow the owner always had a new car every year because "you need to look successful to land the new clients". While he was out looking for new clients (shagging local escorts) his wife was suffering from cancer. So you can see that this guy is as slimy as a greased politician with the morals of a serial killer.

Comes round to our annual Christmas party, he's booked a table at one of his favourite restaurants. One of those places that looks like a hyperactive 5 year old picked all the decorations. We get drinks and orders and I order a mixed grill. I love my meat and I cannot stand vegetables and I have a process when eating. Veggies first then meat. It's my reward for suffering through veggies. So I'm halfway through my meal. All the veggies gone and I need the toilet. I do my business and come back to the table and see my plate gone. I ask the waiter where my food is. There was lots of meat left. He proceeds to tell me the man at the head of the table ate it. This absolute waste of life is sitting there with a massive shit eating grin on his face. I was so pissed off because the asshole didn't let me order another one and expected me to be happy he ate my food and was paying the bill to do it. To him it was a massively funny joke but needless to say all my loyalty died that day. I've since moved on to bigger and better jobs but that shit eating grin still pisses me off. I now never leave the table until all my food is eaten no matter how badly I need the toilet. F*ck you Peter you useless twat!?

I got written up for an error I did twice that nearly costed them a lot of money. I did the quality checks, but I did them incorrectly. The issue is that in the write up, my manager claimed that I told him I was in a hurry to get it done, so I did not do the quality checks or data comparisons. I never said that was my reasoning.

It said I can put comments, so I am wondering if it is fine to correct his reasoning for my mistake. I am wondering if it is worth to comment this without making things worse as I really need this job and the market is bad right so I can't just quickly find another job. I just don't want to risk commenting and it causes it to shorten my employment timeline there.

FYI min wage is $17.73/hr here starting in Jan. They want you to have extensive knowledge, experience, & specifically say this is "not a beginner position".... sure does look like beginner pay to me.

Was recently offered a sales job worth $80-150k a year, in a "family" company that sounded too good to be true. Came to find out that's because it was, shocker I know. The ad said it was a typical sales job going after already established leads and building relationships with clients. It sounded like you'd either be going to people already interested, or at worst working events. Got a phone interview and the second I heard the guy's voice I knew what it was.

You know those people who don't even sound real, and are very clearly using a fake persona to sound positive? Yup, that's him. Immediately acting like we're friends and saying how excited he was to get my application (this despite my background having no sales experience) and talk to me like I was some celebrity in the field. He goes on to list the pay, benefits, and how great of a "family culture" they've built. But don't worry, it's not nepotism, just good 'ol family values. He says it's a call job that does some events, but mostly it's just calling clients who show interest online and closing the deal. He then wants to do an interview and we set one up, I'm just curious at this point so end up going.

At the interview he barely asks about my job history or qualifications, only focusing on telling me his life story and asking me weirdly personal questions. Stuff about growing up, my family, and what I do for fun. The only time my work experience got mentioned was when I slid it into my answers to unrelated questions hoping it'd get him on track. It did not.

Finally we moved onto the job itself, and who would of thought, it's not what they said. He tells me it's actually a door to door position, but don't worry we're not one of "those" companies. He tells me they only talk to interested clients who really need work done, not just knocking on random houses and coming up with something. He also says they don't use any aggressive or disrespectful sales tactics, that we're just supposed to have a genuine conversation with interested households. He also goes into detail on a pay package that seems sketchy, and shows some very clearly edited recent paychecks for current employees to prove the earning potential. At the end they offered the job and purely out of curiosity I took it. I really had no interest but wanted to see just how bad it would really be, and holy shit am I impressed with the incompetence and poor behavior.

I've now since quit after three of the weirdest workdays I've ever had, and can honestly say it's insane what some companies are allowed to get away with. If anyone is interested I'll go into more detail in the comments, but wanted to make this post so everyone can know those jobs that are too good to be true on indeed are just that.

I had ONE shift one Saturday (I get it’s Halloween) it was early in the morning. Gave it up to someone who asked for it. It got approved no problem didn’t think much of it. I look at my schedule again, now there’s another shift that’s been added. Not once has this ever happened. Like I did everything right got my shift covered, it wasn’t last minute etc. What do I do? I have screen shots of everything. Proof I didn’t trade, the person asking for the shift, the shift being added. Not to mention I literally work every single day Monday-Sun every week. I give up my shifts so I don’t have to work every single day of the week.

I just got finished interviewing for a full-time salary position with a series B tech startup. During the interview the hiring manager informed me that they require in-office Mon-Fri with at least 60hrs a week minimum including some weekends. Apparently most people are in office at least 8-9am until 8-10pm. During our conversation I mentioned my family so he added that they "have some flexibility" that would allow me to leave early around 5-6pm a couple days a week to spend time with my family but I would "be expected to log on after my time with them to be sure I get my hours in". At least they informed me upfront? This is for a mid-level, full-time salary job, NOT hourly. All this for a mediocre role, at an uninspiring company I'm overqualified for, with very little if any equity.

The job market is absolute garbage and from the interviews I've had, it appears companies are aware and are actively taking advantage. Crazy requests, insane interview process with case studies, panel interviews etc. for mid-level roles.

The sad thing is, while this sounds like an absolute nightmare of a work environment, considering the job market and the fact that I've been looking for 6 months, I would probably take the role. If I do get an offer my goal is to do the absolute minimum and collect a paycheck until I find something else. This is not a sustainable way to live.

I hate it here.

I work on a management team for a group of service providers with my expertise being on bookings. On Friday, a client failed to show for their appointment which resulted in a no-call no-show charge at full price.

Client calls and leaves a voicemail, I call back: straight to voicemail. I play phone tag a bit, and at one point the client mentions in a voicemail that they called to cancel the appointment but no one picked up. I reviewed my call log and nope: they did not call once prior to the appointment, nor did they leave a cancellation voicemail.

I finally get on the line with the client and they request the charge be waived. I inform that that sadly I cannot do that as the policy is clear and the provider needs to be paid for the time the reserved for the client. The client then admits that they forgot to cancel, directly contradicting their voicemail and proving they’re a liar, but still has the gall to demand the charge be waived: I again say no. I do, however, work out a number of different options with the client to reduce the charge. The best I could do was HALF OFF, which is not insignificant! Client ultimately accepts that but starts getting pretty nasty to me before hanging up on me.

I just checked our Google reviews and what do you know, the client left a completely false review with my name in it! They called me rude, disrespectful, arrogant, condescending, the list goes on. They even claim that I hung up on them which is HILARIOUS because they hang up on me! So to be clear: you run afoul of the extremely lenient cancel policy, you demand the policy be waived, and you defame the person who tried to help you.

I. Hate. It. Here.

When I was on the ACA a decade ago, it was $400/month. The prices have only gone up.

Share this around if you can. Anything helps!

... a factory owner wanted to cut his workers' daily wages but if he directly announced it, the workers would immediately go on strike and his entire factory would shut down. si the owner played a very frightening psychological game. he put a notice on the factory gate. due to heavy losses, the factory is being closed permanently. no one needs to come to work from tomorrow. the moment the workers heard the news chaos broke out among them. the fear of starvation was right in front of them. people started crying, they started talking about their children and they started falling at the owner's feet, begging him for two days. the workers begged just to save their jobs . then, on the third day, the owner came outside and he put on a huge act. with tears in his eyes, he said I can't watch your children go hungry? I'll bear my own heavy losses but I'll keep this factory running, I'll just have to cut a small part from all of your daily wages because I have no other choice. instead of going on strike, the workers happily started clapping and while crying, they thanked the owner. this is one of the most frightening truths about power and human psychology. if you directly take something away from people they'll fight back. but if you first show them the fear of losing everything and then take away only half of it they won't see you as their enemy they'll see you as their savior. a person becomes easiest to control when you take something away from them and at the same time make them feel like you actually showed them mercy.

After criticizing my work online I became upset felt bullied honestly. Was asked to leave the Teams meeting. Came across a recording of the two males shit talking me after. Is this considered a toxic work environment?

Work used to be harder. But before the Industrial Revolution humans could take a break whenever they wanted.

Worked for 2 hours - 30 Minute break. Worked another hour - 10 Minute break. After another hour of work again a 20 minute break. After 12 hours of work, people had amassed 2-3 hours of breaks in between.

Working 4 hours nonstop - then a 30 minute break - and again 4 or 5 hours of nonstop work and not allowed any extra rest? Thats unnatural and makes us sick.

I've been struggling to find a nursing job since figuring out the damage to my back that I got in nursing school. Finally scored an interview and went in today. I was kept waiting for nearly 30 plus minutes and then was interviewed by someone who wasn't a nurse or nursing supervisor. I was told that the position required experience.

Sadly this isn't the first that this has happened. I've started going on interviews where it's obvious no one is reading my resume before calling me in. I don't know why I'm being called into begin with since there's no nursing experience on my resume. Every time, the manager or HR or whoever is interviewing me is shocked as if they weren't the ones that contacted me.

I'm beginning to give up hope and looking at another career option but the job market is so bad that it seems like a waste of money. This degree is a paperweight at this point and the people in HR are just atrocious.

I use to work for uber and I rented through an app and paid $580 a week. I had to work all 7 days from sunup to sundown to pay the 83 daily car note and then my 70 a night hotel stay and gas and food. I was tired. I was sick. If I was one hour late the threats would be immediate. There was zero grace on the car payment. I paid daily.

Uber was also paying less and less. Airport rides that use to pay decent suddenly paid nothing. Uber suddenly reversed the way rides were being dispatched to push more dead miles onto drivers and cover areas that lacked drivers. Such as the far out suburbs. I was in dallas tx. I use to get trip requests thst were near me. Suddenly all the trip requests were 8, 9, 10 or more miles out to pick up passengers. And often take then 8 to 10 miles further out.

All for just 8 or 9 bucks. All the miles out to the person uber wasn't compensating for. Just the milage when the person was in the car.

So you could end up driving 20 miles out for just 8 dollars. And you would need to drive 20 miles back to your original destination .. all for a total of $8 bucks. Thats 40 miles for $8 bucks.

I was also flooded with many $3.46 trips. Uber's take rate was about $5 from those. So uber was still taking over 50% of the fare.

And the airport rides that previously paid well dropped in pay. To pick up business passengers drom love field airport the rides were paying $3.46 to $5.00 very often. The riders would tell me they paid Uber $20+.

Uber started to grab obscene amounts of the fare. If no onw accepted the airport ride for that rate (and there were uber drivers right there waiting) instead of raise the fare uber would send the trip out farther to a driver miles away... at the same low price. Forcing the airport riders to wait instead of paying 1 or 2 dollars more.

So I was working all day... and barely making anything. And many times my elderly mother had to send me money from her social security to make it.

Ztrip is just making an obcene amount from renting cars. Its just a car rental company desperate to get gig drivers hooked into it's predatory rates.

Damn Capitalism. Its a grind now to the average worker. I just saw a report that said less money is flowing to workers than ever before. Regardless od how much the company makes. The workers are seeing less and less.

And that's true. I've witnessed it. Damn Capitalism.

I was PIP’d somewhere where the management was just toxic and awful. I ended up leaving before the PIP ended.

About a week later, some co-workers and management wanted to follow me on my socials like FB and IG. They’re the same people who made my life hell for two years.

I will always think that’s so weird how some people do that. Like, oh, NOW you want to be friends after treating me like shit and kicking me out? I did not accept their “friend” requests. They can go F themselves.

Capital owners have spent the last 80 years capturing an increasingly massive chunk of productivity gains while suppressing worker pay. Now, corporate leadership wants to leverage generative AI to automate away labor entirely, ensuring that 100% of the newly generated economic value goes directly to executive boards and shareholders rather than the people actually doing the work. We are heading toward a tipping point where productivity sky-rockets, yet workers get absolutely nothing to show for it. Are we witnessing the final death of the American worker?

Source: IB Times

I moved to another country hoping to build a new life and improve my career, on a work visa.

I left family, friends behind, which was very hard.

I started the job and quickly realised how toxic the environment was. My mental health quickly started deteriorating, and lots of things happened that didn't make it better. My manager was not supportive and wouldn't hesitate to dump more work on you when your were already overloaded. We were understaffed at some point and me and another person were doing the work of at least 8 people. Manager also made a joke about rape in the office. No consequences followed. He has made a racist comment to me by telling me he's going to ''send me back to the 'jungle''.

HR isn't any better. They have breached my privacy but I guess I should blame myself for that, as were friends outside of work, and I sent a message to the HR person as a friend, when I felt my lowest and was suicidal due to the pressure I was feeling and ongoing toxicity. They then showed that message to our boss without my consent.

The boss is used to making little jokes, that can sometimes be considered inappropriate. But this was just accepted as his personality. But the worst is when he has, to supposedly congratulate me for my good work, generated with AI very degrading images of me, portraying me laying on top of a car, unconscious after having too many drinks (I don't even drink, and he's pushed me many times to drink during company outings), with puke coming out of my mouth. This was shown during a meeting and everyone was laughing.

And when I mentioned this was insulting to me, he was dismissive and has since been stonewalling me and excluding me from opportunities to participate in certain projects.

I quit as I couldn't go on and was on the verge of panic attacks everytime I had to work. I was feeling physically sick, dizzy, and weak.

I feel humiliated, angry, lost and worried about what will come next. The only reason I stayed for so long was so I can stay with my partner I met along the way. Now I'm at risk of being separated from him because I left my job.

I'm sorry if this doesn't belong here. I just know that I'm so over this and over the toxicity in the corporate world, and how unfair the system can be.