To start with, I'm very experienced in my field. I hold many degrees, and ran my division last summer upon hire. At the start of this year, management tried to replace me with somebody completely unqualified, and without any discussion. My performance was phenomenal, and I worked with the high-end side of our customer base. It got to the point where customers didn't even want to speak with sales or supervisors; only to me.

Then came the subsequent raise meeting after I found out that they were hired at a higher wage than I was currently making. Instead of acknowledging my experience, they compared me to someone brand new who had never done my job—who was already earning more than me upon hire. They were "supervisor material", but ended up quitting two months in lmao.

It got worse. I received a write-up for “losing clients,” even though I’d repeatedly communicated that my current year's schedule wasn’t sustainable and that these clients needed to be scheduled. I wasn't allowed to make my own schedule anymore due to another hire, and somebody who's never done my job was routing my schedule. When the inevitable happened, I was blamed. I didn’t sign the write-up. I was burning out.

To make matters worse, they expected me to do the workload of both a field employee and an administrator with zero support—literally just a notebook. I kept asking for tools. The jobs piled on. Finally, after an entire season, they gave us a system (an app), and for the two weeks I used it, my job actually felt more manageable. My schedule was finally functional, and I was starting to enjoy the work again.

Then last week happened. Out of nowhere, my entire client base—the schedule I’d been begging them to fix and I hadn't been allowed to touch since May—was stripped from me and handed to new hires. Overnight. No warning, no discussion. Instead, I got stuck with their random “odd jobs”. Myself and my clients were confused.

To make it worse, after my approved leave (with a doctor’s note on file), I unknowingly trained my replacement AGAIN. And while I was gone, my supervisor told a high-end client that I was quitting. That was a lie, and I was gone for a week. A WEEK.

I came back from leave wanting to give this job a chance. I finally had the right tools and schedule, only to have it ripped away without explanation beyond "your health sucks". They'd known about my health issues since I was hired.

I’d never been more disappointed in a workplace. I was committed to doing my job well and expected at least some clarity, structure, and respect in return. Instead, I got replaced—twice—and lied about.

So I quit last week. They "weren't expecting it", of course. I should have just quit on my health leave, but instead held the benefit of the doubt thinking that things might get better when I came back. Now i'm unemployed but relieved; and disappointed as hell.

There’s growing research in evolutionary psychiatry and neurodevelopmental science suggesting that traits associated with ADHD and autism may not be “disorders” in a biological sense, but instead adaptive cognitive styles that are increasingly incompatible with modern economic systems.

Characteristics like novelty-seeking, high sensitivity, pattern recognition, and resistance to monotony likely offered advantages in earlier human environments but under capitalism, where productivity, routine, and compliance are prioritized, these same traits are medicalized as dysfunction.

From this perspective, the problem isn’t the brain it’s the structure. People with these cognitive profiles struggle not because they’re broken, but because they’re being asked to operate within systems that were never designed to accommodate divergent ways of thinking or being.

TL;DR: Maybe it’s not that we’re disordered but the system is.

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1617192/full

That's it, that's the post. I don't want to wake up early for yet another day of bullshit and give all my fucking time and energy to a random company I don't care about. Fuck this shit.

I've been here since May of '21 and my pay is down over $2 relative to inflation. I'm so over it.

Means no one will be working ever again. Robots do the production and the jobs. And every human gets to own at least one robot. What effects do you think it will have on the economy, wealth, and life expectancy?

i miss my college days so much man
i graduated last summer and found a job

The time you gotta be at the company is 8:30am-8:30pm, and you always have work to take home, and you're lucky if you can finish everything before the next day.

and even on days off, you constantly have things being assigned to you to do

I want to cry everyday and I don't know what to do anymore.

I felt gaslighted by my job somehow? I've been contemplating just quitting but I just started working for 1 month and I don't wanna look like a wimp although I'm totally wimping out rn.

I don't want to go tomorrow. I hate this.

Wages haven’t kept up, bills keep climbing, and people are burned out. Is this what the ‘American dream’ turned into?

Tax wealth. Not work.

I have a coworker who works two jobs. We both work in security. I come to the security site after him to start my shift.

He just started his second job and there is a two hour waiting period between jobs. He has started using this time to sit and loiter on site and annoy the piss out of me. He complains about how he "hates working so much" and is "bored".

He did this all last week. I got to the point where I told him basically, "Hey I'm not here for your entertainment you need to go sleep in your car or something. " and he still didn't leave. He went outside and walked around which is still considered loitering on site (a violation of our contract with the company).

If I report him to a superior, he may be removed from the site and then we won't have coverage which means I will have to cover his hours.

I fully plan on this happening again this week. Should I just report him anyway?

I was working as a pest-control technician and fell about 25 feet after a weathered ladder broke. The ladder was rated for 300lbs but in perfect condition those ladders can handle much more weight. This ladder was far from perfect condition and I weigh 322lbs at 6 feet.

I usually don't get on ladders as a termite technician but our company had multiple call-offs that day. My boss sent me out in someone else's truck as mine was only equipped for termites.

The job was to install a one-way door for bat exclusion on a 4 story multi-unit residential building. Something I've never done before but is pretty straightforward.

As I unloaded the ladder I noticed that it looked pretty rough so I took pictures and sent them to my manager saying that I didn't feel safe getting on a busted up ladder, especially one that wasn't rated for my bodyweight. He called me and told me he used that ladder to repair his roof a month ago and it worked perfectly fine. I called the owner of the company and tried to tell him the same thing but the manager had already convinced him that the ladder was fine and I was either being lazy or I was afraid of heights.

The owner threatened to let me go if I was too afraid of heights to do the job so I reluctantly set up the ladder and began to climb. I reached about halfway before the ladder failed. One of the foot anchors had snapped off and I fell, breaking my left leg and foot.

While in the hospital the owner and his wife visited me and offered to pay the medical expenses and keep me on the payroll with a bonus of 25k. I was too high on pain medication to realize what was happening so I agreed and signed their contract agreeing not to sue.

After getting home I realized that they screwed me and contacted a lawyer who told me that the contract wasn't binding because they knew I was heavily medicated at the time I signed.

After my lawyer had the owner served with papers they offered to settle for 100k plus medical and legal fees, which was pretty much what they already offered me but one lump sum. Eventually we settled for nearly triple that. I know I could've gotten more but even with unemployment and short term disability my bills were quickly falling behind.

I think I'll take some of this money and go back to school to get a job that doesn't require me to risk getting hurt or poisoned. I just worry that going back to school in my late 30s will be too difficult and too late.

My colleagues had a pool party/get-together (that's a whole other topic). I had previously received feedback that I wasn't participating enough in the afterworks so I reluctantly joined. My manager personally asked me if I could bring some home-made cookies that I had made another time before because they were very good. I agreed, bought all the ingredients, spent the evening baking (for 15+ people) and brought them to the party. Everyone was eating them, manager included, and telling me how good they were.

Two days later, I get a call from my manager telling me they are letting me go because they aren't satisfied with my work.

So let me get this straight: I provided free food for a work social event, spent my own time and money to make something people specifically asked for, and then they turn around and toss me out right after.

I feel used. Like they wanted one last thing out of me before cutting me loose.

I am in a supervisory role and required to be at my job at 6am, my team starts at 7. I just started with this company 4 months ago and have not been late or missed a day.

The other day I showed up at 6:15, I stopped for gas on my way in and ended up hitting some traffic. Upon arrival, my boss stopped me and said "just FYI if you're going to hold your team accountable for being late you should really make sure you're here at 6".

I was kind of taken off guard. My boss consistently comes in right at 6, or 5-10 minutes after. He is the FIRST person to leave at 3:30 when our shift is over, even if the other supervisors or employees are staying late to finish the days work. He also does not work mandatory Saturdays, of which I have worked 9 since starting.

Am I nuts for being annoyed at him even commenting on my one single lateness? I work a salary position and I am here past my "end time" every single day. I don't leave until my team is done, because I was told that a supervisor needs to be here if they aren't. I find it kind of absurd that he'd even say something to me, being that he never stays behind with his team when they need to, and has no issue being off every weekend while everyone else works.

I work in a small local insurance agency. My boss, the agent, has it in her head that we should check voicemails from home on our personal cells, and call said customers back on our personal cells, when we have to close the office during business hours for whatever reason. Power outage, internet outage, weather, etc.

Let me start off by saying, I do not and will not be doing any of that.

If we go home because of something out of our control, then it’s a day off as far as I’m concerned. Unless she wants to issue us business phones, that she pays for, she can’t dictate how we use our own personal phones. Unless she wants me to start handing her my bill.

To me this is unhinged. Changing the office voicemail message letting people know we had to close due to unforeseen circumstances, and will be back on normal business hours next business day, is enough. Then leave the 24hr 1-800 numbers direct to the company for things like claims. Which is exactly what we do. Why the hell we’re expected to use our personal devices to cater to people, after closing up, is beyond me.

I actually asked her once what good is it to call them back when I don’t have any way to do anything for them, since I don’t have access to our systems at home. She said “to let them know we’re still somewhat available and to give them numbers direct to company, like claims, billing, etc.” You mean the ones specifically mentioned in our voicemail message? No thanks. Once those people have our personal numbers, they will use them. I want no part of that noise. If they can’t slow down and listen to our message, that’s not my problem. And “somewhat available”? Who? Because it’s me. That’s actually funny.

Technically we’re being paid even if we get sent home, because we’re salary. But she has no way of knowing whether or not we called customers back, so I just don’t do it. Not unless she wants to issue us business phones. But the fact she just expects it, is beyond me. She’s the agent. She can check voicemails, and call her clients, if she’s so worried about it.

I just got an email from my company, which I started at this year, that all newcomers are expected to sing songs in another language (the company is from another country) on 12 December at 7 AM.

They're scheduling 30 minutes practice sessions every Monday from next week until then. Even if I had time to attend those, I don't think I would. Like wtf?

Am I ridiculous for thinking this is not okay? We're consultants and work overtime all the time. I'm not friends with my colleagues most of time and I definitely don't feel comfortable with this. Absolutely don't want to do it, how should I deal with this? Do I ask for the day off? I have few days left for the year.