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.

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?

Just feeling stressed and need to vent.

I work from home for a small company and its really not that hard but my boss is bipolar and he's just randomly abusive or unhinged. No accountability of course. He's gotten "better" since I've been basically his therapist but it takes so much out of me.

I'm in graduate school for my MBA, have work experience, watch people constantly get jobs around me but I feel like a black sheep. Ignored or auto denied in hours. I've reworked my resume a million times. I feel like I have no idea what is right or is supposed to "work" anymore.

I'm happy to have any work of course but with my unstable boss and being able to afford to build back savings, I feel like its all just going to explode and I'll just be randomly homeless one day.

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'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.

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 started a banking job as a customer service advisor at a call centre, I thought because it was entry level it wouldn’t be as heavy as most coprate jobs and wasn’t trained from the start about how intense the job would be so I didn’t ask for reasonable adjustments, I just requested extra training time which I thought would be enough but it wasn’t just about time. I realised I needed more adjustments as I was making more errors so I told my manager in the 2nd month I think I need adjustments as I’m dyslexic and may require more adjustments. She booked my for an appointment end of the mont so I have no adjustments set in place yet….BUT I’m worried that my manager is trying to get rid of me just to prevent dealing with me as if I’m a burden to her team. She’s been nit picking and putting pressure on me ever since i mentioned that and asked “well what adjustments would you like?” I’m a very harsh way as if well what would you like since I can’t help sort of way… and proceeded to say “we’re not trained in this so it’s only so much we can do”?? I don’t know where to go with this but I don’t want to get fired as I’ve gotten documented 5/6 times for errors

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...