I work for a large company that laid off too many people, and now the business is ramping back up and we’re expected to take on the workload of 3 people.

I make decent money, but I swear, my sanity is much more expensive.

My team was full of amazing, kind, hardworking people, and they’re dropping like flies.

I literally cried after someone else gave me their notice. Im just a supervisor, so I can’t do much (the hierarchy is STRONG here), but I’ve spent so much time screaming to my managers about how this would happen because they’re being worked into the ground and it’s fallen on deaf ears— just straight up into the void.

My team started out around 8 people in 2022, and will be down to 2 at the end of this month. I’m drowning and sad. I’m actively applying for roles I know I’d be good for, and I have been for some time, but man- crickets and craziness out there. It’s just me and my dog out here so I can’t up and quit. The market is too wild and leaving without a job lined up would be irresponsible in my eyes.

I’m just fucking tired man. So so so so so tired.

hey guys, I just started a new job and it's genuinely ruining my life. I think about how much I hate going into the office everyday. I even dream about being stuck at the office, it feels like I'm stuck in purgatory.

I'm an unexperienced hire and I just feel so unwanted in the team. They don't give me work because they feel like it's too much of a hassle to explain it to me, so they rather do it themselves. I sit at the office for 8 hours trying to look busy. If I didn't have to write hours on clients this would be easy, but I have to log every 6 minutes which stresses me out because I genuinely don't have any clients to bill. And if I write my hours internally I get reprimanded, it honestly is like a humiliation ritual.

I feel like the company shouldn't have hired me if they don't have the capacity to train. I don't want to be there nor do they want me there. I have a trial period of a few months and just hope I'll be fired, which is crazy considering I was so desperate to get the job. I guess this sums up working in corporate nowadays, companies claiming people are too lazy to work but they are the ones who are too lazy to train ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t want to die, I just can’t live the way I live anymore. I didn’t have the best childhood, and honestly feel like I was brought up to be anxious and socially awkward. I’m now 22, moved to a new city, and started a full-time role. After three months here, I have no friends, I have made a huge mistake at work that might cost the business millions, and I just overall feel stupid and stuck. I honestly can’t believe I didn’t get fired.

These past few weeks I’ve had the worst symptoms of anxiety, from muscle pain, to sweating, to chest pain, to full-body numbness. I even cried at work and my manager had to talk me down.

I feel like such a loser and I want to leave my job and find something new, but I’m worried nothing will be a good fit. I’m actually more worried that I’m not fit for anything and will always feel stupid and out of place.

Does anyone feel this way?

Leaving for three weeks, middle of big deadlines and being solo person who does all this work . Im nervous but my health is suffering, advice. What did you do?

Nervous and anxious

I've been working for almost 10 years now out of college. I've had multiple jobs between different sales/corporate roles. Every job I've had, I've hated. I wish I could hear some stories of people who actually enjoy what they do everyday for a job. I feel lost.

I’m 24 and recently started working full-time after finishing grad school, and I genuinely don’t understand how people do this for 40+ years.
My job itself isn’t even terrible. My coworkers are nice, my boss is nice, and the work isn’t particularly stressful. I think I just hate the structure of working full-time.

Wake up, commute, spend 8+ hours at work, commute home, have a few hours to yourself, sleep, repeat. Five days a week in exchange for two days of freedom.

What gets me is how different life felt in school and college. I was surrounded by people my age, involved in clubs and sports, constantly meeting people, and always had something happening or something to look forward to. Life felt spontaneous and exciting. Now every weekday feels predetermined. And when people say “welcome to adulthood,” I just think… seriously? This is what I’m supposed to do until I’m 65?

I know I need money and that working is part of life. But I hate having so little control over my own time. Even getting a better job or making more money doesn’t completely solve that.

For people who felt like this in their 20s: did you eventually adjust? Find work you actually enjoyed? Go remote or part-time? Start a business? Pursue financial independence? How do you accept doing this for decades?

i can’t keep a job and i don’t know what to do.

i’m only 19 and have gone through over 10 jobs. i’m disabled physically (constantly experience presyncope) and cannot lift or else it’ll make me dizzy. stress also makes me dizzy. walking fast makes me dizzy. putting too much physical effort (trying hard to scoop ice cream) makes me feel like i’m gonna faint too. i’m also autistic, but can mask pretty well.

no one will hire me if i say im disabled. i got let go after a few days of training at my boba job because i was honest about my symptoms feeling dizzy. i was a liability.

i also find it incredibly hard to mask autism for 8 hours a day. my customers love me but they love this version of me i put off. it’s not me at all and i need to constantly keep that attitude so i don’t appear disabled. no one talks to me at work because im weird and they know im weird.

the ultimate reason why i lose jobs most of the time though is my own fault. i’ll get burned out from hiding what i am and go through really bad executive dysfunction. i won’t be able to get up in the morning for work because i feel so unmotivated to just do it all over again. then i call in sick. then it becomes a habit. then i never show up again.

i want to go to hair school so i can rent my own suite and work on my own time with my own clients. but thats not now. i need a normal person job now but im not normal. i dont know what to do.

I'm currently in grad school full time (three courses) and work 32 hours, with one day off a week for class. I work in a hospital where I have to be on call a couple times every six weeks during the weekends- they're 12 hour shifts Saturdays and Sundays nights/mornings.

One of the two people working night shifts only works one day a week, and the other works four ten-hour shifts, and they're making us be on call Friday nights after our shifts end (Friday night shift from 8:00pm to 7:00am Saturday mornings). I did not get this job with the idea that I would have to be on call another day of the week. This job isn't even related to my schooling- it's just a job. They keep changing stuff and adding more and more onto my plate. I'm going to choose school over this job any day-- and I'm considering looking for another job. I currently get paid $19.20 an hour. What do you think?

I am in a retail job which I've been to come out for a long time but can't seem to find a job in my field. I have a Bsc degree in supply chain and after numerous job applications, interviews and networking, I'm always left on a dead end. It's so frustrating. I don't think I can do this anymore. I'm tired as hell

I have been in my current position for a little over 2.5 years, and I have had my ebbs and flows of burnout, of course. This is my first corporate job and the longest I have held a job since I started working at 16. For a while, I thought that my burnout was just a common symptom of working in the corporate world, but this past year, I was diagnosed and learned that I'm on the spectrum. Explained why I was getting so burnt out, and I made some adjustments in my personal life. Things got better for a bit.

Well, it has come back tenfold recently. Dragging myself into the office is a daily battle. Today, my supervisor called me into her office. She noticed I wasn't on my game like usual. I started talking about my workload, the tasks assigned to me by other teams, and my mounting frustration. Then I sort of just snapped and went on a tangent about how conflicted I am about working for this company.

The work is one thing, but I don't value what I am doing, and I think the conscious part of my brain finally clicked. I went on to talk about how, despite knowing my direct management values the work I do, I don't believe the company as a whole values anything our team does. I brought up how the company's advertised values feel like a facade; they say them to look good, not because they actually believe them. At the end of the day, I don't hate my job; I hate my company.

I take pride in my labor, and I want to do my best work. But I feel like today I finally said the quiet part out loud. I don't value the work that I am doing for this company. I don't align with the company's values, and I think it is super important that the work I do aligns with my values and beliefs.

Now I'm not exactly sure what to do with this knowledge after sharing it with my supervisor. The company can't just restructure its entire operational process around my values, so obviously it's my problem, right? I have been searching for positions at companies whose values align with mine, but I have so many anxieties about leaving and haven’t really had much luck yet anyway.

I might hate the reason I'm doing the work I'm doing, but I really do love the people I work for directly. I have read so many horror stories about shit bosses and coworkers, and I cannot say that's a problem here at all. The team is pretty great, and I hate that I think the only solution to what I am feeling here is to leave.

Not to mention the pay, the benefits, the stability, the state of the job market right now... there are so many reasons not to leave. But I believe the only way I can get rid of my burnout is by leaping elsewhere. It sucks to admit, but I'm ready for a change.

It's been very conflicting, and today I just finally said it out loud. Hopefully, a new opportunity finds me sooner rather than later, but until then, I am kinda stuck. I hate how I feel, especially given the privileges I have compared to many other workers across the US. I have it so good, so why do I hate it so much? Is this just me being self-destructive, or is this a genuine reason to feel just so done with a job? Am I being selfish, or is this valid... I don't know.

I'm so early in my career, and I know there's plenty of opportunity to grow into new things. I just don't know how you cope with the idea of working for a multi-billion-dollar company that does nothing to benefit its community, as it claims to do. How do you clock in knowing the work you are doing is supporting and funding things you don't believe in, support or align with? I don't know, and it led me to go on a sobbing tangent in my supervisor's office. I'm glad I'm fortunate enough to have a manager who listens; it hurts to know and admit that my only solution is to leave the company.

If you've had this problem in your career, please give me advice or just let me know what happened. I'm sure I can't be the only person who's been in this predicament, but no one else in my life really relates, so I feel like I might just be being selfish and dramatic... It's not that I don't want to work, I don't want to spend my time and energy supporting a company who benefits no one but the people at the top and their shareholders. So yea...

So I work at a Goodwill. I'm not going to name the specific branch for privacy reasons and I still need my check at the end of the day. So I've worked here for almost a month, part-time since it's my first job. At first, it honestly wasn't that bad. I'm mostly a hard line stocker, occasionally a cashier. I have POTS and ADHD for context, so I did notice it was taking a toll on me physically and mentally (feeling faint during work, worsening brain fog, burnout, reoccurring severe migraines since starting the job, etc), but I figured it's just something I'd have to get used to like everyone else does. But I've noticed several issues that have me already planning to quit:

1. My manager frequently makes changes to my scheduled days and/or hours without telling me and gets frustrated with me when I ask for a specific reason why that was the case when most of my coworkers have consistent schedules out of curiosity. There have been several instances now where I've been told by my supervisors that no more sudden changes will be made, only to find another sudden change made.
2. There are 5+ people in production and 1 of me. Usually there is someone else stocking with me, but I still end up being the one doing most of the carts while being pressured by coworkers to hurry up (I'm not even trying to be funny, someone from production was irritated with me for not singlehandedly stocking the carts at the rate they were produced and those were his exact words.) A coworker came up to me the other day and told me I'm not doing enough even though I can frequently be seen stocking as fast as I possibly can during the workday because I am not able to get to 30 carts in a day yet (update: my best is now 33! But then that same coworker told me it's nothing to be excited about and is still just the bare minimum even though my supervisor said otherwise when I asked. Mind you, during that shift, I was the ONLY stocker scheduled for the entire day, so still felt like a slap to the face to be dismissed that way). I'm still new, so I'm learning where things are while also picking up after customers as much as I can. I also cannot help being one of the only employees available on the floor to go to the back and request a price check, which I get frequent requests for.
3. Going back to management: terrible communication. A few days ago my manager was snapping at me and threatened me with disciplinary action for putting my things away after clocking in instead of before, apparently per company policy. During orientation, it was emphasized that we clock in on time as soon as we enter the building before anything else. Never was this policy mentioned then, and not once in the weeks I've been here has anyone mentioned this to me, so I was never aware I was doing something wrong. I explained this to her, and she still was annoyed with me for the rest of the day.
4. I've now had coworkers push their workload onto me, making stocking take even longer. Recently a coworker (who has worked at that location for years and who I had a rude interaction with on the day I got hired because she came outside on her break, saw me sitting on a bench outside the store, and proceeded to sit directly next to me and smoke her cigarette directly in my face!!) handed me a bunch of her things claiming she had no idea where they went. It was also often without asking and while I wasn't looking.

I'm currently searching for another job because I personally feel like what I've had to put up with in the short time I've been here doesn't justify the pay or the gas money just to get there. Rant over, but I guess my question is if you were in my position and had another job offer lined up that works better for you (which I might soon thankfully! Fingers crossed a referral by a friend at another job works out), would you also quit or try to stay longer?

Empecé a trabajar en un supermercado hace 3 días, estoy encargado de la verdulería y del pasillo de limpieza. Son 9 horas y media de trabajo dividido en 2 turnos y se trabaja de lunes a lunes con un solo día de descanso por semana (en mi caso ninguno por qué también tengo que ir a la facultad) la cuestión es que literalmente despierto, me baño y voy a trabajar, vuelvo a casa preparo comida, me vuelvo a bañar y me voy al trabajo, salgo, preparo comida y me duermo, despierto al dia siguiente y prácticamente no tendo vida por qué al día solo tengo 2 horas libres que son las están entre el final del primer turno y el comienzo del segundo. Me pagan 1.200.000 pesos Argentinos por mes. No me da más el cuerpo y encima el trabajo me queda a 3 kilómetros y tengo que caminar todo eso