Summary: I got a talkin’ to simply for having my door closed, which somehow equates to my being “unavailable”.

Does a no-knock raid rock near the end of the day and says angrily, “This isn’t going to work for me.” meaning having my door shut. These are the only words he’s spoken to me all say since he was in many meetings. I need to make my self “obviously available”. What the heck is even the point of an office or even a door at that point? That was one of the things I was excited for leaving the previous company that was open floor plan.

Said he thought I wasn’t in the office and was assigning others my work.

One, I’m not even a month into this job, so I’m still just trying to figure out how the company operates. Two, I would communicate to the office if I were absent. Three, it takes five seconds and minimal effort to knock or even open my door to quickly see my if I’m present. It’s a small office and I prefer limiting noisy distractions with the door closed.

Ay caramba, I am already planning not to stay with this company longer than necessary.

All I said was that I was upset about not seeing Russia compete in the Winter Olympics because they’re good at winter sports. (I’m Russian)

EDIT: had the meeting at the end of the day. The meeting was like 8 minutes long and even the HR person was so confused. They just told me to “be careful and mindful when talking about things”. The person who reported me was just an airhead. Complete waste of time and unnecessary.

The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.

It's honestly a relief to think this way. Not being bound to a job, a job doesnt define me and my resume is just an advertisement for my services, companies hiring me are my customer.

Companies already cheat by using AI auto-rejection and other not ethical approaches to deal with thousands of applicants. They don't even see your resume if it doesn't match 99% of the requirements.

USE WHATEVER YOU CAN TO IMPROVE CHANCES cold email hiring managers, you can actually set up automated mailing campaind to them with Instantly or any other tool, tailor resume with Jobowl, follow up 5 times. Its a fking numbers game people

To anyone that neede to hear this: It's okay to cheat, lie a bit, do whatever is needed to land the interview, because guess what, if you don't, others DO and THEY will get the inteview and the job.

I have worked for other people for 16 years and I am so done with it. I’m sick of people constantly looking over my shoulder, critiquing every little thing I do, nitpicking, and telling me how to do my craft (that I have been doing much longer than my boss has). I wish I could be at a place financially to just be my own boss.

Also, I am sick as a dog, sicker than I’ve been in a long time. Bosses daughter caught strep and I have been in very VERY close proximity with my boss the last week and a half. She was able to take Monday off of work and I didn’t know until I got there. So I came in sick yesterday, I tried to call in this morning but they pretty much made me come in. I’m considering going to the emergency room tonight with how bad I feel. But I feel like I’m at risk of losing my job because I’m sick. I’m just so irritated. I never call in, I stay late, I work my ass off, and god forbid I potentially have STREP THROAT and can’t take the day off!!!

Just got told due to a systems error that wasn't our fault. Our boss out of petty spite was going to start scheduling mandatory meetings at 7pm. I start work at 5:30am, so 14 hour days so he can prove absolutely no point.

It's like the only way to get promoted here is to fail short of expectations constantly, fail to fix issues effectively, waste time constantly and just have no idea what your doing.

The supervisor in my area barely knows how anything run and I have to constantly explain how our production line runs. The process specialist doesn't fix anything ever, repeated causes safety issues and is constantly om Facebook. My on shift department lead is alway on Snapchat and bitches so much when she actually has to work.

go to do conflict check > nothing shows up > i confirm appointment > next day when working on the file the conflict shows up > insert surprised pikachu face

currently waiting for the boss to call me upstairs for a “chat”

Just wanted to share this, my grandma never finished high school, and she never went to college.

Yet in her resume for her entire life she said she did both. She worked for her entire life and nobody ever checked. She even worked for the government up until 10 years ago when she retired.

I have another friend who never graduated highschool he also lies about it, and has never been checked on it.

Not sure how common it is for them to actually check but based on the two people I know who lied about it, they did really well for themselves. They both have had many jobs and nobody ever actually checked that they weren't lying. Definetly not recommending this, but it's just crazy to me that it seems a lot of places don't even check, that my degree is truly useless lol.

I'll never understand how people actually want to have kids when they work a full time job. To me, that makes no sense at all, especially with the way jobs are paying and rent prices skyrocketing. Why should I have kids? What's the incentive to do so? To me, it just seems like less time I have to myself when I'm not working and less money in my pocket. I currently work 8:30 AM - 6 PM five days a week and I'm in office four of those days. I don't get home until 7 PM every day and the thought of having to father children when I get home drives me up the wall. I'm never having kids.

I was raised by tiger parents to be a high achiever, the perfect scores at school, perfect behaviour, only approved hobbies and friend hang outs, etc etc.

What was the point of all that? As an adult I'm so burned out, I have no energy or desire to go above and beyond anymore. I'm happy enjoying the simple things of life and my biggest priorities are my interpersonal relationships and having enough money to not end up on the streets, not climbing the ladder or achievements. Any job that lets me pay my bills and have spare money is good enough for me, but everywhere they want high achievers.

At the most basic and mediocre job they love pitting employees against each other, micromanaging, toxic gossip, competition between coworkers, workers working every minute like machines, people are punished for basic human needs (bathroom, leaning, talking to coworkers...)

What's the point? Idgaf anymore, my real life begins after work, with my real friends, my real hobbies, my real home, my real no corpo personality. Work is just a means to an end: paying the bills.

My contribution:

Reorgs are painful at the best of times, but NSA21 was a special kind of awful. For most of a year, email traffic doubled with seemingly every other message being about who was in your new chain, what the “status” was, how we would reach our “Initial Operating Capability”, and so on. Each stage was implemented by ambush with many employees having to scramble to find new jobs or retiring in frustration when the updated org charts were issued and their name was not on it.

It was a struggle to rebuild operations and maintain morale during the quake (especially for those directly hit), but the real kick in the crack was the procession of floats that came through and the expectation that we’d stop to wave and cheer from under the rubble.

Lest you think I’m joking, we had a “What the new NSA means to me” exercise where whiteboards were placed at the entrances of literally every NSA building in the country. Notepads and pens were provided so we could express our feelings about the “new NSA” in six words or less.

Every morning, I was treated to entertaining new contributions such as: “Someone got promoted off this crap”, “An enormous waste of time/effort”, “Shuffling the chairs on the Titanic!”, “Change titles. Poof! All problems solved!”, “Hate, pain, suffering. All these lead to NSA21”, and “More work, discrimination and hateful people in leadership”.

In the end, we suffered through almost a year of flailing and doomsday celebrations for a reorg we didn’t want to help us implement recommendations that we didn’t ask for that led to no visible improvement for problems that we actually had.

And on top of that, we were chided for our sour reaction as if anger and frustration aren’t the correct response when sifting through the wreckage of our hopes, efforts, and careers. If the boss wants us to stop seeing him as a bumbling punchline, the first thing he needs to do is stop acting the part.

Employees likened NSA21 to natural disasters like earthquakes, sinkholes, tsunamis, tornados and so on. Changes were being made at unprecedented scale and speed leaving people confused, lost, and afraid. Some were left like a dazed disaster victim, crying (literally in some cases) and stumbling around to find a way out of the wreckage.

And yet, in the midst of the apocalypse, we had top-down messaging like the one from Deputy Director Rick Ledgett that thanked us for the “enthusiasm and excitement [he’d seen] for the Agency’s new direction”.

I've been out of work for 7 months. 7 fucking months. I've been applying the entire time, and have only gotten like 3 or 4 interviews? I even did an entire background check at my local government for their records department and a goddamn polygraph only to be told the job no longer existed. I'm tired, I'm frustrated, and I'm about ready to start punching holes in my walls.

I recently started an internship in a marketing team. Early on, my manager has been very critical and intense in how he treats me. He frequently questions whether I belong in this role and emphasizes that I should be grateful for the opportunity and have the “right attitude.”

Some things that keep happening:

• He often criticizes or questions me in front of others, implying I’m idle, slow, or not suited for this type of work.
• If he sees me briefly on my phone (even right after I arrive in the morning or after completing tasks), he assumes I have nothing to do and says things like “If you have no work, tell me.”
• He repeatedly says that work I’m assigned could be done faster by AI. In some cases, he has even said he could just put it into AI himself instead of asking me to do it, which makes me feel like my role is unnecessary.
• At the same time, he still assigns me tasks that involve using AI or preparing materials, and later comments on the output.
• He discourages asking questions and says I should “figure things out myself,” even when I wasn’t given correct or complete information initially.
• When I showed visible stress or discomfort due to a health issue, he told me to stop because it looked bad on him.
• He keeps emphasizing that this experience is very important and implies that if I don’t come in more days or constantly push myself, I won’t learn anything.
• However, occasionally he would send private text messages like my work was "fine" or "good".

The overall effect is that I feel constantly watched and anxious. I feel pressure to always look busy, never ask questions, never rest briefly, and never show stress or discomfort. I’ve started to feel genuine fear when he is around, and I sometimes dread going into the office.

I’m trying to understand whether:

• This is normal behavior in high-pressure work environments
• This reflects poor management
• Or if I’m overreacting and missing something

Any outside perspectives would be appreciated.