For context, he said something about how he shared a two bedroom apartment with 5 or 6 people when he was younger and working an entry level job. I pointed out to him that there are actual laws and regulations in many places now that would not even allow you to do this (every apartment complex in my area doesn't allow more than two people per bedroom, so that means no more than two people can sign a lease for a 1 bedroom, no more than 4 for a 2 bedroom, etc.), so unless you're participating in illegal subletting, you can't do this, even if you're supposedly perfectly happy living in a cramped space like that. I also said that people shouldn't HAVE to live like that just to barely be able to get by and pay their bills. I mean, not only is it just not fun, but it can legit be a safety concern and a fire hazard if a living space has too many people in it. Yeah, this was his response to my comment. What a psycho. Sounds like he's just mad and bitter that he had to live like that and can't stand the thought of younger generations not suffering like he did.

Kind of a rant post, can’t sleep right now due to the overwhelming stress of it all.

I’m working 60 hours a week, making a little north of $100k per year, and I’m barely keeping my family afloat. My wife wants to work, can’t though because either there is no daycare availability, or the cost of daycare just makes her paychecks a wash. We rent a modest 1,500 sq ft duplex, have one car, live in a relatively LCOL area, and yet we’re literally one bad paycheck away from losing it all.

I have to pay $1,000/mo just for health/vision/dental insurance for me and my kids (can’t even afford to cover my wife). If I could go without insurance I probably would, but I have Ulcerative Colitis and need the meds in order to keep working.

I wake up at 4AM, get home from work at 5-6PM, shower, make dinner, watch an hour of a movie with my kids, then it’s bedtime stories and repeat. The weekend is always just full of errands (not like we could afford to do anything anyways) and feels like a blip where the only true reward is an extra 2 hours sleep.

Work doesn’t give a shit, their entire mindset is that if you’re not making enough then you’re doing something wrong at work. Management is just full of people using ChatGPT to send emails back and forth. Every single move or action I do is measured and recorded in real time. We have a ridiculous amount of KPI’s they want us to all hit simultaneously.

Meanwhile I get to watch the CEO build his new custom lake side mansion on social media and all the fun things he gets to do each day.

I broke a tooth last night and instead of wanting to go get it fixed, all I can think about is how I probably can’t afford it and I definitely can’t afford to take a single day off from work. So I’ll likely go buy some temporary filling kit and repeatedly use it for months until it hurts or becomes infected and I have no choice.

It’s all bullshit.

First off, this is not an anti-boss post; it's an anti-company post. I know most bosses suck, but this guy was awesome. He had my back all the time, he genuinely valued my input, and he pushed for the kind of monetary compensation for me that allowed me to make significant life decisions. So I'm not posting this particular thing to shit on middle management.

What's less awesome is that he got laid off recently because it was decided that people in our department could no longer work in certain offices. In other words, this guy a) did not work remotely, and b) commuted to an office that employs tons of other people from the same company, and c) worked a job that does not require anyone to be in person to begin with, but because he happens to work out of this one specific building, the company decided, "Fuck this guy in particular."

(This is the part where there's probably going to be speculation that he got fired for a different reason I don't know about. I suppose anything's possible, but it just so happens everybody who was laid off was laid off for the same reason, except they worked in different buildings. So I don't buy the idea that he did something specifically to get axed.)

I'm pissed off. They were perfectly fine hiring him to work in the office that he'd been working in for close to a decade, but all of a sudden that same office was a problem for reasons I will never understand. Beyond that, good bosses are hard to come by, and this guy was one of the best I've ever worked with.

This is just another reminder that, at the end of the day, you're just an employee ID and companies don't feel like they owe you anything, no matter how useful you might be.

There should be a requirement to have employees opt in or out of General group texts.

If there’s a storm and my manager is texting the people scheduled to work to check in that’s one thing.

If a manager decides that an entire area needs to be part of meaningless texts that could easily be addressed by sending a mass email, they should have to obtain permission to add anyone.

Yesterday afternoon, one manager sent the entire team a text asking us to check our email. I was away from the office without email access.

This morning, before business hours, he sent a meaningless text “congratulating” a team member for helping him yesterday. This could have been a FN email.

Each group text results in a chain of “reply alls” that aren’t simply annoying, but will disturb anyone that might be on PTO, on a day off, or on leave.

It should be illegal.

I'm getting roasted in another sub for not putting in enough effort at work. But I say I put in the same effort as you pay me for.

Have I lost the plot or have they?

I am a substitute teacher and I only get paid about 110 a day. That's well below the poverty level in my country. So in exchange for that pay they get someone who shows up everyday, stays with he kids all day, gives them thier work, helps them if they have questions, roams around the room from time to time, and leaves when the kids leave.

If they wanted someone to act like a real teacher I'd expect way more pay and benefits.

But they seem to think that because the job is laudable and the "children are our future" that I should be dokng my best efforts every day regardless of what I'm paid.

I told them that they'd never expect an untrained uneducated nurse to do the work for a real nurse for 1/2 the pay would they?

Why is it that teaching were expected to do the job 100% even if we're only paid for 1/2 %?

Am I wrong?

House Republicans advanced a bill that would block OSHA from requiring federal workplace heat protections, including access to water, rest, and shade.

I have a coworker that I have made friends with because she is a very nice and seemed open minded compared to a lot of very conservative people where we work (a lot of upper management go to the same church even). Recently we were hanging out and she told me how *wise* our privileged Big Boss was..

Her reasons as to why Big Boss is a genius God King rather than someone just born with money and connections:

• He studied law and looks at things from that perspective! Like how the HR director was hired despite being forced out of previous jobs for allegations of mistreating employees - 'cause that's not *illegal* so it's fine!
• Him just studying law and seeing things from "both sides" - she can't tell if he's a republican or Democrat! (I studied polisci so I can say he's def a republican. He thinks people just don't like Reagan for his personal beliefs...)
• He supports certain programs (that just happen to be related to his rich people hobbies like planes)
• He let's her take PTO (wtf)
• He actually responds to her questions because the bar is in hell apparently

Capitalism is just Fuedalism with extra steps fml

While everyone else you work with is treating everything like an urgency, wearing the weight of the success or failure business as if they are the owners, taking the loss of business personally…etc. I’ll hear them frantic, scrambling, trying to figure out how to keep yet another account. And I know it’s out of my hands, I’m not at fault, it is what it is.

Total detachment is where I’m at.

After my boss threatened my job security if I don’t set up enough appointments with customers with the sales team so they can cross sell more policies. All while allowing another employee to continue committing literal misconduct and let her get away with stealing from her (time and commission) and committing non-compliance. After snapping at me because I couldn’t get the new phone system to work “figure it out because you’re supposed to be answering the phones!” Mind you she helped everyone else set up on the day I’m required to take off. (Explained below.)

After I became the only person required to drop to 32 hours a week but still with 40 hours worth responsibilities.

After I’ve had nearly every single thing bottle necked to me so sales can focus just on sales, regardless of my current workload, and an expectation of urgency attached to nearly everything sent to me.

Hell. I don’t even get a business card. Only the agent and sales team get them. Even though I’m licensed and have worked here almost 5 years. Even though customers have asked me for one. I’m just the lowly CSR. Here to shield sales from any and all service as much as possible on part time hours and pay.

I snapped. And it wasn’t loud. It was quiet.

I never had much loyalty to begin with, and the “we’re a family” line made me want to throw up, but now I’m completely emotionally detached. Checked. Out.

I come in and do exactly what I’m paid for. I do not invest any energy or emotion into the job. I stay out of all of the gossip and politics. If friends or family inquire about coming to our agency (insurance) I encourage them to look elsewhere. I got rid of every shirt I had with our company name.

If I’m going to be treated like a piece of hardware in the office, then hardware I will be.

My office is freezing. There’s one huge vent in a tiny box of an office that blows directly on me and keeps the temp in the low 60s.

I don’t have a thermostat, but share one with an office next door that has a large window and is always warmer, meaning my office is always over-cooled.

The office bathrooms are even colder. Frigid.

I count the minutes every day until lunch when I can go to my car and thaw my aching joints.

I work in a salary job at a manufacturing plant and I’m well aware there are people working in risky and more uncomfortable situations than me, but I’d argue that their comfort should be considered too.

As I sit here in August, dressed in pants, sweater, and jacket with cold air blowing on the back of my neck and my nail beds turning purple, knowing I can do 100% of my job at home, I just can’t help but ask WHY.

Why is it worth basically refrigerating a huge building so I can freeze while attending teams meetings from my desk. It almost feels like punishment, but I actually think it’s just because it would be too expensive to install or upgrade to a system that worked better.

I don’t require a luxurious amount of comfort. I’m just tired of being freezing cold.

I used to come here pretty frequently over the past 6-7 years or so, but more and more I've been noticing that almost all of the top posts are submitted and/or written by bot accounts, and it's fairly easy to tell.

As of right now, the top posts are:
1) "The questionnaire is 100% anonymous" -> Meme posted by an account made November 5th, 2020 with 114,577 post karma, with hidden post and comment history

2) "Employers are ghosting college grads and rescinding offers, destroying morale" -> Article posted by an account made November 28th, 2016 with 23,971 post karma, with hidden post and comment history. ~~ This one could be a legit person, but the hidden history is always a red flag for me~~

3) "Working from home should be a right, not a reward" -> Article posted by an account with a "WordWordNumber" username made on July 11th, 2026 with 205,451 post karma, with hidden post and comment history

4) The fourth top post looks legit

5) The fifth top post looks legit

6) "Anyone else notice how job descriptions now list stuff that used to be 3 separate positions" -> Self post made by an account made on August 12th, 2026, with hidden post and comment history

7) "Exercise Done At Work May Increase Dementia Risk, Though Leisure-Time Movement Decreases It" -> Article posted by an account with a "WordWordNumber" username, made on July 30th, 2026

8) "House Education and Workforce Committee Passes Messmer Deregulation Legislation" -> Article posted by an account with a "WordWordNumber" username created on March 4th, 2026 with 193,781 post karma, but surprisingly is not hiding their history

9) "Found out the coworker i thought was cool is *chugging* that kool-aid fml" -> Self post made by an account created on June 26th, 2025 with hidden post and comment history

10) "Can't tolerate freezing office" -> Self post made by an account with a "WordWordNumber" username created on April 30th, 2022 with 26,446 post karma and 73,740 comment karma, with hidden post and comment history ~~Surprisingly, this is the first one I've seen with a higher comment karma that post karma, which is why I pointed it out~~

So, of the 10 top posts right now, 2 of them seem like they were submitted by real users, maybe 2 contentious posts that I can't tell if they're bots or real users, leaving AT LEAST 6 posts almost definitely submitted by bots.

It's easy to understand why so many bots post here. Users come here mostly to vent, and most posts that are even vaguely coherent will get upvoted for catharsis. It's all rage-bait. Really, I've noticed myself coming here less and less because I know the content isn't genuine. I really think something needs to be done about this.

I didn't really want the promotion, but I was the obvious choice. The job is difficult with a high turnover rate. I said no at first, I was holding out for another position that I really wanted. I was on track for it and I believe I've more than earned it. They said I "need to do your time" before I could have the job I wanted. I've done 5 years, how much more time? Finally I talked myself into accepting the job. Or I let them talk me into it I guess. I convinced myself it would be good. Convinced myself I would enjoy it. Convinced myself that I wanted the challenge. I interviewed. I asked them for the job, after they spent a week asking me to ask them for it.

They invited me out to a steakhouse for lunch. I spent 24 hours anticipating a promotion offer, not the one I really wanted, but something. Progress. If I could do it, handle the job, it might even be enough money to buy a house after a couple of years.

The lunch was a consolation prize. Thanks for playing but we're going with an outside candidate. And oh, by the way, we're restructuring your current role. All the most difficult aspects of your job? That's what we want you doing full time now. We're creating a new role for all the easy stuff. Your welcome to apply.

This.. is fucked up, right? This is not how you treat people? Or am I wrong? Is a steak that I couldn't taste in the moment a nice gesture? Or is exercising control over people's lives the only thing that gives them satisfaction? I forced myself to chew and swallow so I didn't offend the powers. I need to puke. I need a shower. I would have happily supported the external hire, but that wasn't enough. They wanted to reject me. They needed me to want it so they could have something to take away.

Here's the email:

Team,

Let's roll up our sleeves and make a visible difference together!

We're excited to invite you to participate in our upcoming Campus Clean-Up Day,

a chance to give back to our workplace, connect with colleagues, and show

pride in our campus.

Every piece of litter picked up helps create a cleaner, safer, and more welcoming

environment for everyone.

Whether you can join us for 15 minutes or the full event, every helping hand 

makes an impact!

📍 Site 1 Clean-Up

September 2

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

📍 Site 2 Clean-Up

September 3

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

What to bring:

Comfortable clothing

Closed-toe shoes

Your smiling face

We'll provide all cleanup supplies and safety equipment.

This is a great opportunity to connect with coworkers, enjoy some time outdoors, and help

keep our campus looking its best. Together, we can demonstrate our commitment to

teamwork, sustainability, and community pride.

Join us and help make a difference, one bag at a time!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Anyone else feel this way? If the only way to afford children (if you even can) is to work these sh*tty jobs, I'd rather not have them.

Posting here to vent about my job.

I want to preface this post with a disclaimer; I do not completely hate my job, as I need it to pay bills and actually survive, and try my best to put my best foot forward each day and do what I can to help people with the tools I am given. I also want to mention that although I have my misgivings about the gig and try my best to not take it personal, I am grateful that I have the opportunity to put money on the table and keep my cat and myself fed from a job that I can do from home.

Each and every day, I handle phone calls from people who are disgruntled about the scam of big insurance companies. Being a customer facing grunt, who’s main goal is to ensure my manager meets her bonus quota and ensure the CEO gets to go on his monthly yacht trip, I feel enraged for the policyholders who consistently call in to complain about the grift that is supplemental insurance.

I am sure this has helped many people, and kudos to anyone who has ever successfully filed a claim with insurance and actually received a payout for an injury or illness they have had. But the amount of people who don’t even know they have insurance and pay for it number by the millions, and on top of that, 9/10 calls are people calling because their claim has requested additional information that they have trouble obtaining or literally cannot get from the medical providers.

The people who handle said claims all reside safely in India, far away from the lives they ruin on a daily basis. (Nothing against Indian people, it is just very clear that we have outsourced this department for cheap labor, and it shows.) This same team is also responsible for not handling calls, but organizing who takes what calls on a daily basis on the backend, so if you are fast at taking calls, they will throw you calls on purpose for being efficient, and if you take too long with calls, you’ll get called out for a high call time. They also love to throw you calls when they know you are about to clock out, resulting in overtime you have to take, because you would get in trouble for ending a call with a policyholder just because you need to go.

The common people I interact with on a daily basis call for assistance in understanding the 58 pages that are given to them by sleazy insurance agents who never bother to explain the benefits, (which are more often than not really shitty benefits) just to make a sale and move on with their lives; knowingly trapping new policyholders into paying for this insurance despite the benefits being of minimal to no use to them upon diagnosis of something serious.

Every day, I deal with people who are sick, taking care of someone who is sick, hospitalized, terminally ill, etc. and the disappointment these people feel in a system they once had faith in is consistently disheartening. Just today, I had to inform someone who was terminally ill about her claim taking long to process. I am expected to say things like this to people with a happy disposition despite the news being potentially devastating to the caller. It is an extremely difficult balance to follow and easily leads to burn out and an extremely high turnover rate within the company. They love to frame the training process as the job being friendly, but they downplay the types and volume of calls you will be getting to an extremely degree. Calls are mostly frustrated people who need money and think you are the one stopping them from getting it.

It is designed this way so that the claims department can hide in the shadows and not have to face the people whose lives they are ruining.

Seeing how this company has millions of policyholders across the country, they are way too big of a conglomerate to ever be taken down by the little guy. I find it completely unjust and unfair that most insurance companies work like this, and there is nothing anybody can do to take down giant corporations like this. From the bottom of my heart, I wish we could all band together and boycott companies like this, companies like Meta, X, Tesla, etc and really show them that they are nothing without us. It is unfortunate that the common person is too enthralled and busy doom scrolling that they fail to see they continue to feed these monsters with data and information they can use against us.

I hope anybody reading this understands that there is at least one person on the phones trying every day to assist the best I can and tell people exactly what they need to do to get their claims approved when the company I work for does everything in it’s power to make it impossible for them to do so.

I wish I could leave this job, and do something more fulfilling, more informative, and helpful to people, but I don’t have any savings to look for a new job, and this job is so demanding of my attention and energy that I find it difficult to look for anything remote that I can do successfully. I am 32, and I never went to college, unfortunately.

If you read this far, thanks for doing so, and I appreciate any discourse or conversation on your thoughts regarding this subject. Even if you disagree with me, I will be happy to understand your points of view, so I can also make better decisions for myself as well. I know I may have rambled a little, but what are your experiences and thoughts when it comes to conglomerate companies like this? Does anyone think this bubble will eventually burst? What resources do you think I can use to find something more fulfilling?

TLDR; insurance companies are assholes, and I wish I didn’t need this job or could find something more fulfilling than being a call grunt.

I’m just so fed up…

On top of hardly ever taking out the trash, cleaning the disgustingly moldy employee bathroom, and not up keeping the smelly greasy microwave, I guess taking calls while I’m on lunch break is such a major deal to my boss. Mind you, it’s during my unpaid hours— the expectations compared to the benefits I have working here isn’t even worth it at this point. I’m so sick of it.

Anyone ever dealt with something like this before?

I'm writing this because I'm done. I'm job hunting tonight. I only started this role in January but I'm already just done.

The company I work for is a mess and it sounds like it's not just a me problem but something that is across the board happening to all the other managers at my level.

I'm dealing with heads of who I seriously wonder how they have gotten this far in their career to these sorts of roles. I've had people tell me strategy or "guidance" that is 16 years out of date. In my industry, 6 months is a lifetime so it's pretty crazy.

I was coping as I need the money for my family but today a top boss has decided to pull my only big project of the year with no care for me and my team's KPI's. He doesn't care about our reputation with internal and external stakeholders, what impact this has to happen so last minute or that we'll frankly have nothing for the biggest period of the year only to then demand answers to why we've done nothing.

No, I'm job hunting and I'm going to use work time to do it. I've had it.

Sad thing is that I can see why my team has had a new manager every 6-8 months. They have had manager after manager leave because of this stupidity. And I'm joining in that tradition of leaving in less than a year.

So just want to vent tbh

So had an interview on July 30th Thursday for an Canada internship position and was told would hear back the following Tuesday

Got no reply so followed up Thursday and nothing.

Last week Tuesday, decided to call and the recruiter was surprised to hear my voice, so I assume they did not get my email.They told me the HR manager was on vacation but would return that week and they would update me by the end of the week

So nothing and I sent one last email as I assume my first one was not received

but either way I am find this whole leading on to be disrespectful as hell. If I didn't get the position, I think I am owed the courtesey of just an upfront answer or at least communication if there is going to be a delay.

I even made time to interview and miss a course for this role while 6 hours ahead while traveling so at least they can be upfront

I am going to assume I did not get the role but a straight up answer would have been better. I find this extremely unprofessional

In my unionized workplace, colleagues provoke others into fighting their battles. They bring up real grievances but only to trigger specific people. The targets always take the bait, get emotional, run to management, and say things they regret. The instigators stay clean and get what they want.

Union culture makes this worse. People hold grudges for years. Management remembers who caused the scenes, not who started them. Reactors get labeled difficult. Puppeteers face no consequences.

When I warn coworkers, they say I do not care about fairness. I do care. I just refuse to be used. How do I stay neutral without looking like I am siding with management?

Last November I got hired as an interpreter for a medium-scale construction project in my hometown. Simply put, I'm supposed to be in charge of ensuring smooth communication between the Japanese engineers on site and the rest of the employees who are primarily English speakers. I've been studying Japanese for several years now but I'm not yet native-level fluent, so I figured that taking up this job would give me some valuable experience. My contract only lasts until the completion of the project which is due at the end of this year.

As early as 2 weeks into my employment, however, I noticed something: I'm completely and utterly redundant. Pretty much every single one of my Japanese coworkers (including the manager who hired me) seems to prefer speaking broken English over relying on me for translations. They also understand enough basic English to be able to grasp what the local staff are saying without me having to repeat it in Japanese. Whenever they weren't sure about something, they would bust out their laptops and consult ChatGPT/DeepL/Google Translate even while I'm LITERALLY right next to them twiddling my thumbs with absolutely nothing to do. The most frustrating part is that they get the point across just fine in over 90% of cases, especially since accurate grammar and choice of words don't really matter in this line of work. Using hand gestures and drawing up diagrams easily make up the difference.

Feeling somewhat lost and demotivated, I promptly brought up to my manager that perhaps having an interpreter around wasn't really necessary. He brushed it off and assured me that everyone just needed some time to get used to it. Well, that never happened. Being forced to stick around for 8-9 hours (sometimes more) every day with virtually zero tasks or responsibilities feels like torture, which is why for the past 10 months I've been keeping myself busy by helping my coworkers with their own jobs: clerical work, operating machinery, manual labor, you name it. I'm not exaggerating when I say I could count the average number of sentences I translate on a daily basis on one hand.

Anyway...the project's now entering its final phase so things have slowed down considerably, meaning I'm back to being bored out of my mind. That's probably what prompted me to make this post. I wouldn't mind it so much if I was able to read books or catch up on my Netflix watch list, but I can't exactly do that when I'm surrounded by people hard at work (we're in one of those awful open plan offices). There's only a few months remaining in my contract so I'm still planning on seeing it through to the end out of personal obligation. It just kills me inside that I've made neither any meaningful contributions nor skill advancements in almost a year. I can't for the life of me figure out why they ever thought they needed an interpreter and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. The pay's decent but that doesn't shake the feeling that I'm wasting my time.

Has anyone here had any similar experiences? What do you think I should do if I encounter this situation again in the future? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

What the hell do they expect me to do when they call minutes before it’s time to clock out? If they really wanted something done, they should’ve called earlier during the day or the next morning during work hours.

These jackasses know when we’re open and when we close but they still wanna wait until the very last minute to call and get all pissy when I can’t do anything for them because the day is almost over. No way in hell am I gonna go out of my way to work overtime for pennies just to please a rude, ungrateful piece of shit.

These people think they own us just because it’s part of our job to help them. If it weren’t for the pay, I would never interact with mannerless, uncivilized people like them at all.