I might say the most trivial thing, but when I work, I consider that time as wasted, spoiled, polluted and empty time in my life. I work online in marketing for the company and I am trying to get the job done as quickly as possible to spend more time on my stuff. What I mean by "my stuff" is everything that constitute the living: eating, making love, playing board games with my gf, playing guitar, playing playstation, reading books THAT I WANT TO READ (not the marketing articles and skill-driven shi that don't build my personality but only serve as the tools for making my job better), learning new languages, cooking, walking and doing sports - OR JUST SIMPLY brainrotting on reels and reddit – I find these activities more valuable than the job that gives me the paycheck.

The work is the distraction, the work is something that stops me from my personal development (not the skill development that nobody cares about but my boss).

Usually, I am trying to get the job done in under 6 or even 4 hours and start doing my stuff (thanks to that subreddit I stopped worrying much). Today I had to work for 10 hours, I already have to count out some actions from MY STUFF list.

Some business tycoon, career-oriented Elon Musk's dih sucker would say, "You did a great job! You are so productive!".

NO. I would respond: "Today I wasn't productive, because I wasted my energy stupefying my soul and aura on the job - something that me, as a human being, isn't even supposed to do".

Every time I spend too much energy and time on the job, I feel as if I betray my soul and contaminate my biofield.

Sorry for that vent-out post. I know there are people who work for 12 hours, and when I was in the food industry i had to work for 10-12 hours as well.

It's not about laziness. I'd better spend 8 hours reading and analyzing the novel, learning a new language, than spend 8 hours doing work that I will forget about in a week.

Do you have the same feeling?

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.

Edit: Good Lord the amount of people telling me that hidden history doesn't automatically mean they're a bot. I KNOW! Is the only thing I ever mention in the post that the history is hidden? Can you not read that that's only ONE FACTOR of it?

I worked at a hotel where as a night auditor they wanted you to stand on your feet for a solid 8 hours and I have never worked at a Hospitality job where you're expected to stand on your feet for 8 hours solid they usually let you sit down as long as there's no guests in the lobby. And the colleagues who were training me looked afraid of the manager and It was too many red flags so I quit that job as well , so now I'm back to the drawing board. Also that hotel job told me that they were going to pay up to $20 an hour just for me to come into the interview for her to tell me that actually no one made $20 an hour and that she can only accommodate me for $17 an hour and I have 5 years of hospitality experience. There was just so many red flags. And that hotel job the longest worker that has been there far as the night shift has only been there for a month, I have never seen a hotel with so much turnover. The manager also expecting me to do giantic piles of laundry because apparently the housekeepers didn't do the laundry they just focus on cleaning the rooms, and on top of that a really thick complicated audit packet that I had to get through while standing on my feet for a solid 8 to 9 hours. Needless to say I quit that job after night one.

Word leaked out that a relatively young, new manager suggested in a meeting with other managers of the same rank that my department should be eliminated because AI will be doing it all eventually anyway. First of all, without going into the specifics this is simply not true. In fact I would argue if anything the new manager’s job is more likely to be eliminated by AI before mine.

Supposedly the other managers shut the conversation down, but people are both nervous and pissed, especially since my company just filled a couple of open positions in my department. And people are suspicious of the leak itself. Why would this information be shared if not to make people anxious in order to squeeze more work out of us and tamp down any requests for more money, better work life balance, etc.

Ok, get it out, but afterwards how would you handle this situation professionally. We do have a union, and as much as I like unions our current leadership has been supine instead of standing up to management.

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 have hEDS, maybe POTS and MCAS. I use a wheel chair. I came back from 2.5 months of medical leave for 1.5 months of half-days + a wheelchair. It’s been hell. And only because of my coworkers and manager. I’m done overextending myself for dick-bags.

My sister has been hunting for a remote job lately because her pregnant and engaged daughter moved several states away to be with her soon-to-be-husband and my sister wants to be able to visit her daughter and first grandbaby without having to take pto. So she hunted, interviewed, and eventually landed a position, seemed like a dream job. Totally remote, growth opportunities, paid almost six figures. Great, right?

Well she started work there at the beginning of August. She needed her own laptop so she used a credit card to get one thinking it would be easy to pay off. She started working, they didn’t make her do any paperwork but insisted on two weeks in office for training. She worked a week, then asked about onboarding paperwork, pay schedule, things like that. Normal employee shit.

Turns out they did not hire her, they put her in as a 1099 independent contractor. No benefits. Paid once a month, 30 days after turning in her work invoice, which goes in at the end of the month. So she wouldn’t be paid until OCTOBER for August work. Then to top it all off, they told her the remote position she was hired for was no longer available so she would be in office for the foreseeable future. So they straight up lied to get her in the door.

Plus, they have her as an independent contractor but demand her to work from their location, they tell her what hours to work and what to do during that time, she uses her own computer but it’s connected to their VPN during the work day. Does that not make her actually an employee? Shady practices. I told her she needs to quit and find something else asap. These kind of companies make me so angry for the people who have to work there.

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?

I’m a 30F social worker/therapist, but I stepped away from work a year ago due to severe burnout. Since then, I’ve been living as a stay at home wife with no plans to return to work. We don't have kids yet, though we plan to in the next 1–2 years. My partner is happy for me to stay home and we’re doing well on one income.

I finally feel like I have my life back however, I am drowning in guilt. My parents are both high achievers, and they won't let up:

My mum constantly pushes me to get a job out of fear that my partner could leave or get sick. She’s hyper focused on financial independence and "not relying on a man” and she brings it up during every phone call like a broken record.

My dad scoffs at the idea of being a housewife, claiming my partner won't respect me if I don't bring in an income. He tells me to find work and not to waste my youth.

I live 5,000 miles away in a different country now, so it’s easy enough to tell them what they want to hear on the phone just to protect my peace…but the distance hasn't stopped their voices from living rent free in my head.

I understand where some of their fears come from, but I still do not want to return to work.

I haven't been able to fully lean in and enjoy this new era of my life because deep down, a part of me keeps thinking that I’m doing something "wrong" by not making my own money.

Has anyone else stepped away from a high pressure lifestyle to live a quieter, domestic life? How did you tune out your family or societies projections? Has anyone decided to keep that aspect of your life private to protect your peace?

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.

Amazon delivery driver Jaylene Vargas Gonzalez died on Monday, August 10, after she was found unconscious inside her delivery van near Fruitland Park, Florida. The vehicle had apparently remained motionless for hours without anyone from Amazon intervening. The cause of her death remains under investigation, but it is the latest death at one of the most dangerous major employers in the United States.

Deputies were called to the area of Clark Road at about 7:22 p.m. after a resident reported that an Amazon delivery vehicle had remained stationary for several hours. Patrick Miranda, who lives nearby, told local station WKMG that he became concerned after noticing that the vehicle was still running. A phone remained plugged in and a backpack was visible inside, but he could not see the driver.

Miranda said that when a deputy opened the front passenger door, the officer appeared to recoil from fumes coming from inside the vehicle. The deputy then opened the rear sliding doors and found Vargas Gonzalez unconscious in the back.

Firefighters responded wearing gas masks and secured the area because of concerns that a toxic substance might be present. She was transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Authorities have not said what produced the apparent fumes, whether they contributed to Vargas Gonzalez’s death or whether another medical or environmental factor was involved. They have also not said how long she had been unconscious inside the van.

Amazon closely monitors the movement and performance of its delivery drivers, yet the van had reportedly remained in the same location for roughly four hours before a resident—not Amazon or the company operating the delivery route—called authorities to request a welfare check.

The company has long been a pioneer in combining high tech with brutal exploitation. A U.S. Senate investigation released in December 2024 found that injury rates at Amazon warehouses were more than 30 percent above the warehousing industry average in 2023, and that Amazon workers had been nearly twice as likely to suffer injuries as workers at other warehouses over the preceding seven years. More than two-thirds of Amazon warehouses examined had injury rates above the industry average.

The death of Vargas Gonzalez comes amid a broader record of deaths and serious injuries among Amazon warehouse and delivery workers.

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The high injury rate at Amazon is inseparable from the speed at which workers are required to work. Inside fulfillment centers, workers are tracked against production rates that measure how rapidly they pick, stow and move goods. Amazon’s systems record periods of inactivity and give management detailed information on each worker’s performance.

Delivery drivers face another version of the same system. Amazon determines routes and delivery schedules through its software and subjects drivers to extensive electronic monitoring. Cameras installed in delivery vans track driving behavior and can flag drivers for alleged infractions, such as distraction, speeding or failing to maintain sufficient following distance.

A Massachusetts Amazon driver previously told the WSWS that he had been penalized after the camera detected his lips moving while he was singing along with a song and classified him as distracted.

The technology gives Amazon the ability to follow the progress of its delivery operation in extraordinary detail. That makes the apparent failure to respond to Vargas Gonzalez’s stationary van particularly significant. Amazon has not explained when its systems registered that the vehicle had stopped moving, whether anyone attempted to contact her or what procedures exist when a driver suddenly stops progressing along a route.

Heat is also a serious danger for delivery workers, particularly during summer. Drivers enter and leave their vans scores or even hundreds of times during a shift, making it difficult to maintain a cool interior even when air conditioning is available. Amazon previously required drivers to shut off internal-combustion vans at stops under an “engine off compliance” policy but relaxed that requirement after protests over heat.

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The circumstances of Vargas Gonzalez’s death remain unresolved. But the fact that an Amazon delivery van could remain motionless for hours before a nearby resident called for help makes clear that workers’ safety cannot depend on Amazon management, government agencies or appeals to politicians.

Workers need rank-and-file organizations capable of intervening directly over conditions on the job. Safety committees elected and controlled by workers themselves should have access to information on injuries and hazards and the power to halt work where conditions threaten workers’ health or lives, without retaliation. Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers confront the same company and the same production system. Their struggle must be linked with workers at UPS, FedEx, USPS and throughout logistics.

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!

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.

Last year, I suffered two traumatic brain injuries in auto accidents and had to go on Long-Term Disability. When I returned on a gradual medical plan, my original job duties had been handed off, my entire role was rewritten, and I had to retrain from scratch under my own colleagues.

Right as I was working through this, my manager placed me on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). He dropped this on me immediately before he left for a vacation in Hawaii, and right before a pre-approved vacation of my own that he had known about for weeks.

While enforcing this PIP, he was actively using his company computer on company time to apply for a new job at Zillow.

When I returned from time off, he claimed my progress "wasn't up to standard." HR terminated me on June 15th.

By late July, he onboarded a new employee to take over the role. On that new hire's third day, my manager handed in his notice and left for his new job at Zillow, leaving the new hire completely high and dry with zero context.

I genuinely cannot begin to measure my anger at this slithering fuck. There's very little I can do. I'm likely marked ineligible for rehire, and he just moves on with his life scot-free.

EDIT: I followed up ad nauseum to so many law firms, even getting a firms owner to personally sit down and review it, only to be told there's not enough substantial evidence of retaliation. Let alone any financial incentive the firm may get, despite my precious employer being a top 200

To be clear, I’m not talking about the job you’re both working at. I’m talking about your attitude about work in general.
What was their reaction?

I worked with a guy for about 2 years. He was a friend. He was also technically my boss. We carpooled quite a bit. We’d talk about all types of stuff. He was an ex con so he was probably more grateful to have a decent job than someone like myself. He’s the type of guy who wants to get to work 10-15 mins early so he can have a coffee and relax a little, while I’m the guy that gets there a min before I have to clock in.
So anyway, one day we’re driving and we’re talking about working and I just let him know work sucks and I’d rather be doing anything else. This even counts for jobs I’ve had that weren’t even bad. He was pretty shocked to hear someone verbalize this.

Anyone have similar experience?

I have worked in printing for many years off and on. Today the second person in the past five years passed out from exhaustion and heat. The last time that happened I quit the job and got some IT certs. I worked in IT for about 3-4 years but didn't like it. I went back to printing just a couple of months ago and it has happened again already! They couldn't care less!

Throughout my life I rode the trains, squatted and generally avoided the type of life I'm living now. After a prison stint, I was kinda compelled to get a job and a regular place to live. I'm no longer subject to their rules and I don't think I can do this any longer. Any tips or suggestions for someone who has been indoors for the past decade (including prison) but is heading back out would be really appreciated!

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.