Rejection letters at least make me feel respected and acknowledged as a human being. The silence just hammers in how little my need to survive crosses their minds.

I'll correct this, everyone who is affected most by these problems are too busy trying to survive that they don't have money, time, or energy to do anything else. This is my experience from watching those around me

I recently got a raise, after telling my boss i was being offered work else where. He was very adamant that i didnt tell anyone because then everyone would want a raise. So naturally i told every one i work with. 3 other people also got a raise, and he dosent know its my fault.

Thank you for coming in for the interview, but we are going with another candidate.

I work 36 hours - Fri-Sun overnight. Have four days off every week and love it.

Mighty weird comments on this one. Firstly: normally companies like to know why someone is leaving so they get to know if there's an issue that might cost them more employees. Or just an acknowledgement that the message was received is bare minimum. Secondly: The manager shouldn't interrupt her own leave, even if it's a nice gesture. Making sure the person subbing for her knows there's a new employee coming and is ready to welcome them and show them the ropes is more than enough.

Isn't it amazing how many, many people make this mistake? I know I sure did.

Totally true. Knowing you can sleep in tomorrow gives you a better night's sleep tonight.

And give up hope???

Wrong. You don't have to be tired to want to leave work on time. In fact, nobody is entitled to a reason why you want to leave and you don't have to justify it. You have a life outside of work that is important to you. Your choices are as valid as anyone else's.

I'm holding out for "patient zero" but that is a little lofty, I must admit.

I found out 2 weeks ago that I was given bad information by the company that bought us out and my last check of year would not include the 5 days of pto that I didn't utilize and if I didn't use it I'd lose it. (I really wanted the double check as my deductible starts over). Immediately put in for the last week of year off. They tried to tell me it wasn't doable. Ok. They could either do one week without me or accept my 2 week notice. Somehow it was now doable! I will never pile up my days off again, I can feel the stress and hatred towards customers melting away with each midday nap

You know... if you'd read through your Conception Options instead of just checking, "Yes, I agree" without reading it, you'd have noticed there was not just an option to be born a duck but the specific species of duck as well as the location you wanted to be born. It was all in there.

"Something like this happens only once in a lifetime" is a sentence I heard more than I would like. It is in the news every month. Record inflation, war in Europe, pandemic(s), floods, fires,... can we have a break finally?

Yes, and apply this to people too - even if they are relatives!

When I call off I don't give a reason. Ever. I just say I'm not coming in. Manager: "Thanks, Paul. I'll take you off the schedule." It's that simple. If your boss makes it harder than that you have a bad boss.

Not to be a humourless person who works with semantics for a living, but you prefer discussing the TOPIC of exploitation rather than burnout. Burnout is to exploitation as broken bones are to assault, with the same partial overlap in a Venn diagram (burnout/broken bones are not always caused by exploitation/assault, and are not the only possible outcome of exploitation/assault) and it is not wrong for the term itself to exist. The problem is the refusal to acknowledge when exploitation IS causing it.

Belly danced at a golf tournament

Part of the problem is current democracy. When everybody can vote for some dumbass, who just said "I will fix this" without telling how, for how much or anything else. Or for some big mouth that shouts "everyone else is a [pick slur], we have to stop this" and offers nothing than shouting. In our country three biggest political parties are led by those populistic bastards, that care about no one but themselves.

I asked my manager if I could go home because my cat called and was lonely. She laughed and let me.

I have 1 grey hair. It surfaces every year with a certain work project and disappears half a year later. I dropped the client a month ago. Fingers crossed next August it will stay gone.

I’m happy with my country’s progressive party’s stance, which is effectively “everyone gets a plate before anyone gets seconds” but for time off work. It’s not that reducing the hours of people on 40 hours a week isn’t good; it’s just that helping people who have to work more than that in order to make ends meet is a more pressing issue.

Yes. And I still quiver when I think about it.

Was a few minutes late and the boss was standing by the time clock. He says "If this was a plane to Hawaii I bet you'd be on time". I said " Yeah, but I'd WANT to go to Hawaii" Even he had to laugh.

In my country (not US) most jobs ask for university degree for basic jobs with minimum wage.

I don't know, but watching the news makes it worse, so don't try that.

Snakes (or a companion of your choice, I have a snake a bird and a dog) , weed, and anything to keep your mind busy

Cat Meemes

Crystals. You'll need to charge them in the light of a full moon. I like quartz, personally. Just be sure to throw them hard enough at the people causing your problem.

Have you tried THC?

Rubbing you face in the belly fluff of your cat while they purr.

Did you make sure the apple cider vinegar had the mother in it? If not, this is most definitely where you went wrong

Chocolate chip cookies. Works every time.

Have you tried hemlock?

Help us raise Cthulhu to destroy the earth. He promised the cultists they'll die first quickly and won't get slowly tortured to death like the rest! Oh and added bonus: you'll get litterally insane long before he rises so it won't hurt at all, when he comes, you'll already be dead inside. Oh what? You wanted to find your will to continue living? Sorry. Can't help with that.

Swallow a light bulb...

Vinegar works well, just don't eat the mother FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

Smoke a joint and put on some Greatful Dead. Problem solved

Even worse when you're forced into these meetings that shouldn't involve you in the first place..

For thousands of years, normal was working a field from sunrise to sunset (70-90 hours) just to feed and house yourself, and hoping blight or drought doesn't kill your crops so you won't starve during the winter. (No air conditioning, electricity, running water, television, phone, padded furniture...….). Yeah, being stressed out all the time at an unfulfilling job sucks. Working for pretentious pricks that are taking advantage of you sucks. But get some perspective. Working 40 hours a week for living conditions that a medieval monarch would envy (during one of the most peaceful eras in human history) is abnormal. Just not in the way you meant.

Act your wage!

For years I've had to get up at 4:30am to get to work at 6am. I have cats. Cats do not understand days off or weekends. If you want to wake up at the same time every day without an alarm, I recommend cats. They are very schedule oriented, and no on can sleep through having an eyebrow gently bitten or a cheek repeatedly tapped.

Yes, and… that’s why the question is asked. Folks to make sure you weren’t fired 30 times, too. 🤣

At least it wasn't a phone call.

lol. I had one we had to donate to a charity to be entitled to wear jeans on Friday.

A picture of a print-out of a picture of a blackboard.

Literally anything to replace the previous mean comment.

In most countries a positive "credit score" is achieved by avoiding them. The US is, to my knowledge, the only one which demands getting into debt and then deciding on the score on basis of the discipline of paying it off. And without a credit score it is impossible to get a lot of important things in daily life done.

Yep, very little time for gaming while earning a paycheck. Bummer but now I can afford the expensive ones! Irony.

F**k LinkedIn. It's where people who can't separate their job from their personal identity go to circle-jerk

I can actually do this at my job. The only problem is I have to take thirty 6 year olds on the playground with me.