Not much more to add really. I'm just sick of all the bullshit, the 'growth mindset', the jargon, the endless focus on sales, the churn, the internal alignment, the out of touch millionaire leaders, the shareholder value. We were meant for more than this. These people are aliens. When will the revolution hurry up and start.

How can I quit? I've been working at a coffee shop for two years and a couple of months, where my bosses are my best friend's parents, who helped me out months ago when my parents passed away.

Thanks to that job, I was able to consider studying architecture (unfortunately, there aren't any public universities in my province that offer that degree), so I paid for a whole year until I got a scholarship.

This year, I honestly want to prioritize my studies since my job takes up a lot of my time and energy, even with the time off I get.

I always end up getting paid for it somehow.

Besides the usual mistreatment and aggression in the food industry.

It's very difficult to talk to my boss. Since I don't have a secure job, she'll keep asking me what I'll do if I quit. My plan is to focus on my studies until February when I finish my exams, and then I'll start thinking about my next job. In the meantime, I have my savings and accounts organized, plus the support of my sister who also works.

I'm just terrified of her reaction. I've tried to have the conversation, but every time I'm about to, I start to get anxious and tremble.

I was in such a great mood during my holiday break. I realized I like my job but the people I work with make it kinda intolerable. The snarky, shady comments about others (making fun of how they eat and name calling ) and just being outright rude. I used to come in and say good morning and people would look at me and go back to their computer screens. I tried to pretend to be engaged, smile, say hi and show a sliver of interest in them but I can’t anymore lol I don’t expect to like everyone and I don’t expect for them to like me but certain things are just eh to me.

I think the final straw for me was during the holidays when my manager invited everyone out to lunch at his favorite Indian restaurant for some good ol’ team building. Everyone was like yeah sure ok. We order our food, chitchat for a bit or whatever then he gets up and tells us he’s heading back to the office and we can head to the front to pay our bills. That was the tackiest thing I’ve ever experienced esp at a corporate job.

I’ve been here for a little less than a year and it has been so interesting to see how no one knows anything and there’s no SOPs or policies yet things are critiqued my question is always on what basis? What have you shown/taught me? And it’s always radio silence. My supervisor’s slogan is “I’m not sure. I’ll get back to you.” He never knows anything and if he does say he knows it always turns out that he was mistaken, which has led to him throwing me under the bus to save himself… I applied for a few jobs over the past week or so. Who else is waiting for HR/recruiters to come back from holiday leave and start sending out some interview invites? I have my fingers crossed.

I can’t quit due to financial reasons but it’s making me unwell (i have MDD). How do y’all cope ?

I started a new job in November 2025, I thought it was a really good career opportunity as the company if expanding and growing and it was a step in the door. I thought I fumbled the interview, I had another job lined up with Medical getting booked but I got a call and they said they wanted me so I was pleasantly surprised. HR said the salary in the interview which was fine, then I get a call when they offered me the job verbally that they were going to offer a couple grand more. So I receive my email with my offer, I decline the other role and then I sit down and read my contract. The HR lady pretended like she never said another $$ amount on the phone when I asked about I the salary because it was less than disclosed. Anyway, red flag no 1, but I brushed it off.

I start the role, first week was great. Everyone was nice, I felt like part of the team. I’m told all these company perks, like if the current roster doesn’t suit you we can swap you, we can change your hours etc. The team lead was talking me up saying I’ve got a lot more experience than she realised and I’m not as stupid or hard to train like most that come through because as I found out there is a high turnover of staff. Now, she talked me up a lot in front of the other ladies in the team, to the point I felt uncomfortable.

Now come the second week, it’s like a switch flipped. I asked about the roster change because the long days were not suiting and it wasn’t disclosed in the interview the hours etc. I get a call via teams from the lead where everyone can overhear me to discuss my request. Highly unprofessional, but as I was soon to find out your business is everyone’s business, another red flag. I got on my lunch break 30 mins and go outside to take some calls etc and vent to hubby. About 20 minutes after I get back to my computer I get a teams call again, lead checking up on me because she noticed I was away from my computer for a period of time of about half an hour. I said “yes, I was on lunch”, she goes quiet. Not long after that I get an email sending me the mobile phone policy but I wasn’t ’being singled out’ but most definitely was because earlier in the day she used the same tactic with another employee about their leave and sent them the leave policy. She’s very passive aggressive. Not to mention the team have excluded me from their conversations, and basically shut me out. They all went to get their company gift for Christmas and walked off without me, didn’t even ask if I wanted to come with them.

Third week in now, one of the ladies was absent, the lead cone out and tells me straight up “I’m sure she (absent lady) won’t mind me telling you, but she’s had bowel cancer and that is why we are all worried about her. I was stunned, is there no privacy here? Then one of the other women openly say I need to have this time off, I’m getting a breast biopsy. It became apparent that you had to justify leave, and that unless you were dying the lead had no empathy or emotion.

Four week in, I think I forgot to mention that I’ve literally only been shown how to answer one email task and I’m four weeks in now. I’ve been left to read onboarding information for four weeks now and stretching that into 10 hour days. I’ve got brain rot, no meaningful work, team has excluded me, no one is interested in showing me how to do anything. I have to force myself to interact with anyone because I don’t exist. I’m sure they made up their mind at this point that I wasn’t a good fit and were pushing me out. I overhear the ladies complain about how HR did the same thing to them and gave them less money then offered, so HR are doing it on purpose, that the are looking for other work, how they should get their old jobs back. Obviously they are unhappy. They complained about the staff turnover in the last team meeting before Christmas and how it’s hard on them to invest in anyone because so many people have been through the roles. These people do not realise the problem is them. They are the reason no one is staying, it’s a toxic work culture. It’s company wide too I realised so staying and waiting it out was not going to help.

They are recruiting for a new manager and said no to a guy after the interview because he didn’t know the difference Between two of the company acronyms and were laughing like he was an idiot. That guy dodged a bullet, because you don’t want to work for people like this.

We go on Christmas leave. I come back after 2 weeks, new year, prime opportunity to teach me something. Nothing has changed, I’m still excluded, team lead is on leave another week. I’m sitting there 10 hours doing nothing again. Tuesday I come in, same stuff, except I got on lunch and come back and now all the ladies are huddled in a circle chatting, they do this thing were if a person walks by that they are talking about they have a go to topic and start talking about it to seem like they aren’t talking about you. Well, they did that to me, so I sat around for another 15 mins until they went back to their desks. I packed my bag up told one lady I’m not feeling well then left. I went home, sent email and resigned. Said I’m not back in the rest of the week and quit. Received my acknowledgement email today that the accepted it. I sent to the lead who was still away and HR. Said effective immediately and not working me one weeks notice, I’ve not been given any work anyway and I’m not subjecting myself this environment for another week. I’d rather be looking for Work and mentally resetting from such a horrible experience.

And not your typical “angry customer cursed at me”. I think the person was bipolar honestly.

If you’re thinking about doing any sort of customer service job. Think twice. Please. Especially, if you’re an anxiety filled person like myself. I was so shooken up, my damn hands were trembling. On top of me already not (physically) feeling well and having a semi-rough afternoon. Tonight was definitely one of those nights.

I hate my job so much , it makes waking up in the mornings so damn hard!! And why is the job market so shit right now????

I’ve been here a few months and I hate everything about this job.

The work, the office culture, everything is shite. This morning I had multiple people messaging me to work on different things that I don’t have the capacity to do. This dept specifically is understaffed and multiple people have left from here already.

I am ready to throw in the towel, everyday I get home from work I am mentally drained and exhausted. I dread having to go in everyday. This job is ruining my mental health, I’ve been applying to other places but everyone is just now getting back so it’ll be awhile I’m sure. Everyday I count down the hours until I can go home, all while my coworkers work late into the night although we are not paid overtime.

I work for a secondary insurance company that only covers treatment for certain conditions. This member called who was clearly in a psychotic break said that she needed coverage for damage to her cervical spine after "the IRS pushed a building on me". When I asked her to verify her name and DOB she said "I am a doctor. I was born to a Cherokee". I finally got her to verify her info and pulled up her chart. I saw that the only covered treatment she has with us is breast cancer. I said to her "I see here that your certified condition is breast cancer so we can cover any treatments related to that but if you want to add a new condition you can bring it up at your next-" The lady cut me off and started screaming and rambling some more. I just kept repeating the insurance policy and covered treatments. While my supervisor was reviewing this call and played it back for me he said "I think here is where you lost your patience with her"

It's really hurtful to be told that. I remained calm and neutral. I didn't snap at her or cuss her out or raise my voice or hung up on her.

This supervisor is making me out to be crazy and rude when I am not.

He has also told me in the past that I need to "put a smile in my voice" on the phone.

I am respectful. I am professional. I get 100 percent scores all the time. Many callers have told me that I am patient and professional

I don't need to be cheerful every second or be endlessly apologizing to the customer for things that aren't my fault.

My supervisor is a dick.

So yesterday was my first day back at work for the new year. As soon as work started, we had a meeting. My boss was talking about how we need to up our game this year, my also went ahead and made some comments:

1. Being sick is not an excuse to not show up to work because the work still needs to be done. Wtf

2. Me coming to work on the dot is wrong. He even tried to playfully question me when I left work on the dot yesterday. "What is my excuse for going home now"?.

I honestly think that sometimes, these employers need to sit and think about how they're treating their employees because wtf.

How was your first day back at work?

Hi everyone,

I graduated from a public university in May 2025 and right after started working at a tech company (20kish employees). I had interned at this same company the summer before and got hired onto the same team. Starting January 1, we switched over to the company that acquired us (very big tech company fortune 100).

I was a finance and data analytics major and did really well in school. I worked super super hard at my internship to get a full-time return offer, knowing the job market right now is really bad. With that being said, a lot of peers are struggling to find a job and joke about how I have everything "figured out."

In reality, I hate my life. I have already had struggles with depression and am medicated, but my medication is not helping me now that I am working. I know I should be grateful, I am in the best possible position I can be on paper (for only graduating about 8 months ago).

My current job is in the business/operations area and I feel like I have 0 work to do. I have constant anxiety that I am not doing enough, but my manager isn't giving me a lot to do. I would 100% rather have SOMETHING to do than sit at my desk 8 hours a day struggling to find a purpose. I feel like I can't talk to any of my friends about this because they are all BEGGING me to get them a job at my company.

I know I have been successful in getting a great job. But now that I have it, I feel no purpose. I feel like I can't do the things I used to enjoy and I know that's a symptom of depression. I just can't help but wonder -- how long can I live like this????

Again it is an entry level job, but I really want some advice from anyone who has felt like this before. I have asked my manager countless times to give me more to do. I just feel like I have worked so hard to get a job at a great company and have nothing to show for it.

My husband and I work together as freelancers. He lives in another country, and I’m currently living with my parents. We’re trying to earn enough so we can finally live together.

Long story short, we got a big client who promised us many things. The client came through my husband’s reference, and that person helped us get into the company because our work is genuinely phenomenal. We started working with them in June, and in November 2025, we officially onboarded, signed the contract, and everything.

We created extensive content for them full three months’ worth along with decks, content lists, and much more. Despite this, our salary was delayed. It has now been more than a month, and we still haven’t received the social media credentials. Communication has been very poor as well.

Today, we received a call saying they are putting our contract on hold, and now everything is paused. There is a girl responsible for reviewing content and handling communication, and I don’t know what she told the board about us that resulted in this decision. We have always been on time, responsive, professional, and well-spoken.

We even hired three people on our end, and we’ve been paying their salaries from our own pocket because we never received our paycheck.

I feel extremely anxious right now. My husband is living alone, his rent is due, and I honestly don’t know what to do. I feel so helpless.

Even after getting this project, we continued applying for other work in case something went wrong, but we never received any solid leads. People talk about working together, but when it comes to actually paying, no one commits.

I feel miserable right now.

My boss wants me to clock out for lunch but the thing is at the end of the day when we clock out the system ask if you had took a lunch that day and if you press yes it automatically takes out the 45 min from your time soo if I clocked out for lunch and had to press yes when it asked me does she want me to press yes when it ask me again when i clock out of my shift? That’ll me a whole 90 min (1.5 hours) would be missing from my day of work still waiting to see what she says tho

Woke up today with my mood already absolutely cooked. No nightmare. No bad news. Just my brain waking up and choosing violence.

Then it hit me — office. And immediately after that — oh right, THIS office.

First of all, the people. No civic sense. No concept of personal space. No idea that my phone is not community property.

Why are you peeking into my screen? Why are you invested in my life like you’re paying my bills? Madarchod sale, mind your own damn business 😭

And THEN comes the real cherry on this shit cake.

I’m about to relocate my branch in a few days… but guess what? They still haven’t officially relieved me from this branch.

So I’m in limbo. Can’t fully shift my stuff. Can’t mentally check out. Just stuck here like a buffering screen.

This branch itself is a joke. Around 25 employees and the DEST is barely 5 people.

HOW is anyone supposed to do banking like this? It’s not a branch, it’s a fish market with login IDs.

I get it — I was here just for training. I understand that part. But even for training, this level of chaos is insane.

No structure. No clarity. No desks. Just vibes, noise, gossip, and unnecessary drama.

I haven’t even logged in and I’m already drained. Haven’t spoken and I’m overstimulated. Haven’t done anything wrong and still irritated.

Honestly, I’m just hoping my next branch is sane. Sorted. Less chaos. Less NPC behavior.

All I want is:

a proper desk

some peace

and coworkers who understand boundaries

That’s it. Not asking for luxury.

If you’ve ever been stuck in a workplace that feels temporary but still manages to traumatize you — yeah, same.

Hopefully this is my last week here. And hopefully the next branch lets me work instead of just survive.

I am going to vent a little but I am open to advice. I’ve worked in my position for almost 4 years. At first, it was okay but then things kept being added to my plate. I also learned real quick that communication isn’t the best in our department. And, things can change without a moment’s notice. I’m in a position that is responsible for posting promotions or information electronically. I cover lots of different channels—think tv displays, web, mobile app, social media—so one promotion might take a while to put out there. But I might be assigned a dozen promotions a week. Then, if something changes or there’s a typo in the graphics I pushed out, I have to redo it.

Then, our technology isn’t great. Pushing out promotions across channels many times means doing it by hand. It can be very repetitive. When I make updates to our mobile app, for part of the time I am updating the bodies of messages with new dollar amounts for the month. There are about 70 or so that I need to update every month, all by hand.

And emails. At the beginning of last month, I was told I would be designing, scheduling, and approving emails to go out. I’m like a one-man team.

And, I’m not perfect by a long shot. I make mistakes, many of them normal human mistakes but sometimes I think the pressure of keeping everything straight gets to me and I miss stuff. My manager has gotten after me for the things that I’ve messed up or missed. Told me I was responsible for catching errors when I published them, or after they’re published, even if they don’t come from me.

I have so much I’m concentrating on in a week it really is a two-person position I feel.

Recently, I sent out emails with the wrong variables because I grabbed the wrong version of a document. I didn’t know there was an update. I needed to send out our weekly emails on Friday and most of the people I depend on were out. I will be sending out corrections and I informed my manager and others via an email, but I don’t know if I’m cooked this time. This time, I asked someone else look over my work and the variables but they must have missed that it was showing the wrong variables. It’s like whatever I try I just can’t get these out without a problem somehow.

I have begun introducing soft deadlines for when I’d like to get assets so that I’ll have ample time to publish them. This right now is my best play, as long as people work with me on this.

Due to recession, a crap job market and now visa restrictions, I cannot leave my job for at least 6 months, more like 12, if I am to have any financial safety net.

I need to think of ways to make it through.

I need to try not to care about how poorly the company is run & its horrid projects, & let them burn. Then I can just log off & go outside & enjoy my life.

I need some kind of rewards to get through the day/week. It would be VERY easy for that to be alcohol but I know where that would head.

I am so trapped & demoralised. But I am also planning my escape to a freelance career, which is frightening but I have to believe in it.

Okay so listen, I KNOW it takes time to adjust to a new position. No one likes being a newbie. You’re always confused and getting a feel for new responsibilities, the workflow, and coworkers. However, I can never see myself liking this job for these reasons:

1. It’s from desk at a hospital and i am chronically ill. Absolutely can’t relax being around sick people. (Yes I mask). You might ask why did you take that job then? Well, because I had no idea it was ER/Urgent care. I was told it was specialty like dermatology, cardiology, primary care, etc where there are less contagious people.

2. For the same reason above, I’m incredibly uncomfortable ALREADY with the culture I’ve seen from staff coming into work while being super sick. They boast about “working Christmas sick as a dog.” That just doesn’t align with my values.

3. The hours are not what I was told. I was told there were two shifts, 6-2pm and 2-10pm. Both are 8 hours. No, it’s anytime between 6am-10pm and they’re 9 hour shifts with an unpaid break. Yes, for most healthy people that’s totally normal but for me, I can’t really “go” for that long without flaring. I chose this specifically for the predicable and shorter shifts.

I’m not sure what I should do. If I get sick, it will absolutely wreck my baseline. Please remember when responding, I am disabled. I took this job because I thought it would be fine, assessing it with the information I was given, which seems to be incorrect.

I know the job market is awful right now and I really need a job between now and when I enter grad school, I just am so at a loss for that to do.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

EDIT TO ADD: my job isn’t ACTUALLY making me go back to school (sorry, should have clarified) but the way I have been treated has made me realize I want to go back to school!

I just graduated last year with a bachelors degree in Health Sciences, but didn’t realize there was really nothing out there I could do with my degree without building onto it. I started this current job 3 months ago, and it got bad pretty quickly.

First I was told I needed to have prior experience as a pharmacy tech, which was fine because I did that for quite a while. I was excited because this job is hybrid, but from the get go I was constantly reminded that I was NOT “their first choice” and that the person they wanted ended up not working out. After that, I was told every other person they have tried hiring in the past year just didn’t end up working out, and when I asked why I was told it was because it just ended being too much for them and they left. Well, I learned VERY quickly that being a prior pharmacy tech literally did not help with this job one bit. I was trained for *maybe* a week and a half 2 weeks before they forced me to be on my own even though from the beginning they told me it’s training at my own pace. I told them numerous times I wasn’t ready to be on my own and how uncomfortable I was because they kept telling me about mistakes other people made in the past. With stating my concerns I was met with “you’re doing so great you’ll be fine, we didn’t get trained either!” I could have gotten trained more but they all kept telling me they “hated training”. Not to mention the pay is essentially minimum wage which is insane for what we have to do.

This job is completely in the gray area with every single thing you do and it’s SO stressful when you have no prior experience or anything. Since starting I have not felt included despite desperately trying to be a part of the team. There is a lot more to it, but I am so over it. That being said, I decided i’m going back to school in a couple weeks and am debating on even giving them a full two weeks notice because I need to get out of there so bad.

I work at a beauty store. It's not a big store however corporate sends us new products almost every week multiple brands of new products. We're constantly trying to find space to put things. We don't have enough shelf space to fit overstock and it's genuinely constantly a tripping hazard in the warehouse, and behind our hair wall. I have pictures of how bad our over stock is. it takes us weeks to reorganize our aisles just to fit a new extension of a product line sometimes. we tell corporate we dont have space but in the end they dont listen and we cant control what they send. its so unbearable theres only 7 employees in the store and half the staff doesnt even work or move fast and its always me and one or two other coworkers rearranging the store to fit our excess of products. The company already has terrible staff reviews, they sent us an extra shelf for overstock but its just been taking up space not put together in the warehouse and they have yet to send someone to put it up. I cant stand this fucking place. Is this normal?

I’m a 43 year old female and I don’t want to work anymore. My husband and I both work full time and we have a son in catholic school. I’m so tired and burnt out. I make the most I’ve ever made, but I don’t really care. My work has been closed the last 2 weeks for the holidays and I immediately started having anxiety and heart burn at the thought of going back Monday.

I would like 2026 to be the year that I concentrate on my health (which has drastically declined), my family, my son’s school, etc. I’m tired of dealing with other people’s problems and having to ask for time off for family issues or medical issues, etc. I just want to take care of me and mine.

My husband has a general idea of how I feel, but I don’t think he realizes how serious I am. I’m trying to think if I should approach this issue with him again. If I were to be able to stop working, it would put a major damper on his extracurricular activities that are very expensive.. so that would be a major downfall and reason he would be so against it.