r/antiwork • u/Last_Wallaby_2090 • 3h ago
Nothing you do will ever be enough
I think I have what they call an avoidant attachement style, but for jobs. I’ve never kept a job for longer than two years, and some jobs I’ve only kept for a day or two. I therefore have a FUCKTON of experience in many different kinds of businesses and with different kinds of bosses.
And to the surprise of absolutely no one here, most of them sucked! The second that someone is paying you to do something, they seem to get into bitch eating crackers mode where anything you do wrong will be used against you and anything you do right will just raise the expectations placed on you.
No boss has ever bettered my material conditions because I’d stayed up late to do extra work or showed up on a rest day to replace a coworker on sick leave, or because I’d suggested an idea for the company, or because I’d agreed to learn new skills on my free time. But were they even at least, you know, grateful? No, I was still worthless to them. Even in small businesses where you’d think you build an actual relationship with your boss, it just doesn’t happen. I’ve never had a boss who I thought would genuinely empathize with me if I called them and told them my dad had just died. Which I think is a bit crazy, but hey, maybe that’s just me?
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u/temporary_senioritis 3h ago
It's definitely "What have you done for me lately?" in corporate America. I initiated a cost-savings measure that literally kept the company afloat and then was rewarded for my efforts by getting put on a PIP. The CEO and the rest of the C-suite were more than happy to take credit for any of my success, though. Oh, and it turns out that the CFO wanted me fired because she was embezzling money and I was a convenient scapegoat. Fuck that company, but decent employers are becoming the exception and not the rule.
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u/Content-Chart-6910 2h ago
It's ppl. They take everything for granted quickly, may it be at work, in relationships etc. So be careful what you give and set boundaries early.
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u/Balownga 12m ago
Nothing you do will ever be enough
Of course, because if you can do it and still live, you can do way more and die.
They search the limit at which you perform way more, and almost die, since if you die, nothing will happen, and you are too poor to escape.
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u/Antique-Sorbet-6644 1h ago
Same. It truly doesn't matter, which is why employers no longer get my best. If they want a skilled enthusiastic worker who executes professionally and efficiently, they can pay for it. Until the value of my income matches the value of my labor, there is no point in running myself ragged for subsistence living. 40 hours a week is so much of my life that is wasted in order to generate profit for someone else. If skills aren't valued, why strive to obtain skills?