Hello, I’m 23 and I’ve currently been unemployed for 10 months.
I applied for a secretary position at a law firm. They interviewed me two days ago along with another girl, which I found a little weird. It seemed like they didn’t really like me because they were asking the other girl more questions.
However, today they called me and asked if I could come in, so I went. They had me type a whole text in Word to see if I could type quickly and if my spelling was good.
They seemed really weird, and honestly, I didn’t like the vibe at all. They were asking me things like, “If we sometimes shout at you, don’t be too sensitive. That’s just how this job is.”
That made me freeze and feel really sad because my previous jobs had somewhat toxic environments too. They also mentioned many demanding responsibilities that I don’t have much experience with.
The salary was €630/month, 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday.
I feel really sad about rejecting the job, but they scared me, and I also know that I’m not a very independent person yet. I even lied to my mom about it and didn’t tell her that I rejected the job because I know she’ll be disappointed. :( And no, I don’t ask her for money. I’ve been living off my savings for these past 10 months.
Thank you if you read all of this

I recently joined what is objectively a great company—one that I worked really hard to get into. But I am struggling to adjust in a way that feels extreme and honestly scary.

I wake up with intense dread almost every day. My heart sinks at the thought of opening my laptop, my chest feels heavy, and I sometimes start crying before work has even begun. I cry almost every day now. Even on WFH days, just knowing I have to log in makes me anxious.

The workplace itself is stressful and can be toxic in some ways. Other people feel the pressure too, but they seem able to cope and continue functioning. I feel completely consumed by it.

This isn't my first job. My previous job wasn't toxic—it had stressful and bad days, but I could manage and recover. This feels completely different.

I also moved far away from home for this job and don't have much of a support system here yet. I find myself constantly waiting for my parents to visit or for the next time I can go back home.

I'm already in therapy and seeking other support, but I feel like this job is sucking the life and zest out of me. The strange part is that once I actually start working, I can sometimes enjoy the work. It's the anticipation, emails, expectations, and constant pressure that seem unbearable.

I've decided I probably cannot continue. I was nervous about how a roughly six-month stint would look on my resume, but I don't have financial responsibilities that would trap me here, and I have enough family support to go back home if needed. At this point, staying feels like it's taking away too much from me.

But what is actually happening? Is this burnout? Anxiety? Have I become conditioned to fear work itself? And the question that scares me most: are all workplaces eventually like this, or is this particular situation just not sustainable for me?

Has anyone experienced something similar—where you feel intense dread and physical anxiety before anything at work has even happened?

TL;DR: I moved to Bangalore for a great job I worked hard to get, but within a few months I've developed extreme dread around work—I cry almost every day, feel anxious and physically unwell before even opening my laptop, and feel like the job is sucking the life out of me. I'm already in therapy, but I'm considering quitting despite worrying about how a six-month stint will look on my resume. Is this extreme burnout/anxiety, or do all jobs eventually feel this unbearable?

I've been working at a factory that produces truck parts for about a month now, I live in Dallas, TX. Not going to name the company, but things have gone downhill as of recently.

I work in the better bit, the accessories department, my job is to put stickers on glued parts and pass them along. Almost everyone else works in much more physically, hotter, and health demaning areas (floating welding dust and chemical burns). Standing for 10 hours doing the same motions wouldn't be so difficult if our only safe space wasn't only in our minds. It's regularly hot enough that my coworkers' health is at risk (I mostly live with older ladies that aren't legal). Access to water is sometimes not worth the interruptions to the assembly lines. But we used to have earbuds to at least pass the time away and anybody trained enough to do another's job can take over so that production isn't stalled while someone is away.

Apparently we've been behind production needs so now an Improvements Manager has been called to get us back to speed. First of all, the earbuds are gone (reasonable). The other production lines are gutted (leaving certain workers having to do the jobs of two). No improvements on ventilation or water availability. Constant managing (strict quotas). Beverages must be bottled and put away (reasonable).

The pressure has led to a surge of new faces, destruction of cohesion, and a notable burn out of my coworkers and myself included. I'd be alright with this lean manufacturing stuff if we were given a compromise on earbuds and quotas. Some of us have resorted to malicious compliance i.e. doing the bare minimum to keep our jobs.

Am I being a baby or do I have a point in some of these complaints? I understand some of these things are legal matters so I'd like better explanation on them if possible.

If you’re on a PIP (at a job you know you’re going to quit because they treat you badly), and you take sick leave for stomach issues - how would you answer if your manager straight up asks you ‘is work causing you anxiety?’ knowing you are lowkey stressed because of the PIP and their behaviour?

Is it better they know these things are causing you stress and anxiety?

I feel a bit embarrassed to admit this to my friends in real life, but I’ve been job hunting for four months straight with zero luck, and it is absolutely crushing me.

I’ve traditionally been a deeply confident person with a very strong sense of self-worth. Logically, I know the global job market is a mess right now. Combine that with fucking AI making companies think they can just slash human roles overnight, and it’s obvious this isn't purely an individual failure.

But emotionally? When I bomb an interview or send my resume to a dream company only to get completely ghosted, it is so incredibly hard to stay positive.

I think I got spoiled because landing my first job out of college was surprisingly easy. I had this delusion that I’d just do some interviews and have my pick of multiple offers. So this constant, brutal rejection is hitting me like a freight train.

I honestly don't know how to adjust my mindset so I stop internalizing a macroeconomic problem. Deep down I know the market is shrinking, but after throwing resumes into the void over and over, my brain subconsciously defaults to: "You're not getting offers because you're genuinely just not as good as you thought you were."

Has anyone else been through this recently? I really don't want to spiral into this dark, negative place. How do you stop taking this awful job market so personally and keep your sanity?

Honestly, trying to vent/ obtain guidance. I've been placed on a PIP and while surprised I can see why now. Long story short I've been with the company for 4 years and my yearly reviews have always been great. However recently a mistake I admit that was done by me resulted in a PIP.

At this point it feels like im living with anticipatory anxiety given that no clear measurable metrics were given to me and it honestly seems like they're phasing me out. The company has cycled through CEOs and this recent one has been doing mass layoffs. Given the nature of things, I do believe that they needed a head to roll since there's been a lot more weighted errors occurring where I work by other colleagues.

I'm taking this as a learning experience but can't shake to feel disappointed and feel like I'm just waiting for them to fire the bullet. It's seriously been causing me so much stress that I get mini anxiety attacks. My PIP says its 60days.

Should I quit or wait and get unemployment?

Hi everyone, I really need an outsider’s perspective on my workplace. I posted a couple of days ago regarding some of the issues i’ve been facing, but today I truly feel like I’m going mad.

Im at a new job, and still less than half way through my probation. I’m being trained by a temporary employee who is senior and was hired to bridge the gap between me (a very junior employee) and the previous employee. My manager is a separate person, who is looking to get promoted soon, and who I do not speak to much.

The person training me went on leave a week or so ago. I was told my manager would be stepping in to cover most of the tasks and I would continue to be supported by them instead. Instead, I ended up in the deep end. I was holding down the whole department and had 0 context for what I was doing. I reached out to my manager on 5 separate occasions, just to ask questions on things that needed to be done. Each time I was given a blunt, unhelpful answer, instead telling me what I was doing was wrong- but with no real solution. It was extremely stressful, I was incredibly apologetic, and spend the weekend in dread for the following week. The temporary employee returned, and didn’t say much to me about the previous week.

Today I got pulled into an in-person meeting with the temporary employee. This was uncommon, as they much prefer to wfh. I was essentially told what a disaster the week was and how they had higher expectations for me, but the reason they gave left me feeling… wronged? I was told I had bothered my manager too much. Never before have I heard this complaint, usually my feedback is that I spend too much time trying to solve issues myself rather than asking. I felt dumbfounded. I asked them to elaborate, and was told how my manager is incredibly busy and I should have known this, and that they had reported me to the VP of my department because I had bothered them too much.

I actually proceeded to stand up for myself, saying that I was told I would get support from my manager, and than asking questions is the only way I could get answers for things I hadn’t been taught. If I didn’t ask, I couldn’t do the work. The response was that I “should have known” to ask other people instead of my manager. I was told that this person is “my manager on paper, but not so much in real life”. I asked if it related to the promotion my manager was expecting, and was told yes. I asked who my new manager is, and was told that they didn’t know. They suggested it could either be someone in the international team, or a more general team (both have never had any involvement in the role).

Am I going mad? This doesn’t feel normal. How am I supposed to progress at a company where I don’t have a manager to support my training? Is this normal, this is my first role after being in a graduate role for a couple of years, so maybe this is just a wake up call for me. How would I know who to go to? I really don’t want to get in trouble again, but the temporary employee isn’t going to be here for much longer. What do I do?

People are leaving my job due to word load and just feeling like management doesn’t care, we had 2 full timers leave another store, while they are bigger then us, we are also busy in our own right, where we need our employees, especially for work/life balance.

We had both employees pulled over to another store since they were unable to hire for one position and the other position they needed someone more experienced. But this has left us short at my office, where it’s my branch manager, myself and 3 employees, one which is only able to work 2 days out of the week.

I’m really pissed because it’s stretching is thin and no one seems to care, my manger is working close to 50-60hr weeks, I’m working 50, our 2 staff members are also checked out wanting to demote and also quit. Idk what to do,

Worse of all my regional manger and partially branch doesn’t care, I make them aware some things are difficult to get done due to the work load, all I hear is” we just have to find a way to get it done” & “ we need it prioritize tasks” and it’s annoying because it’s always “ you. Need to be solution oriented but never when it comes to finding a solution for the team to not be stretched thin.

EDIT: Thank you all for your insights, I’ll be talking it over with spousey and will update the thread once we’ve planned out our next steps
And really thank you the advice has calmed a lot of uncertainty that I have had!

My current company is relocating to Chicago and is laying off the entire staff they’ve offered severance for the employees affected and offered me a role in this big city making 1k less a year and with a change of title
For context I make 70k and the role they offered is capped at 69k
Really unsure on my next steps and have a newborn around
For added bonus of craziness before they laid us off I made an offer in a house and close within the next few weeks.
Job would start sometime next month.

So I got called into my managers office this afternoon and he looked absolutely livid. He had a printout of a 1 star Glassdoor review that was posted earlier this week and he basically slammed it on the desk. The review mentions "toxic micromanagement" and "outdated tech stack" and my boss is 100% convinced it was me because I'm the newest hire on the dev team. He kept saying that the timing is too suspicious and that he knows I've been "quiet" lately. I told him over and over that I didnt write it and I dont even have a Glassdoor account but he just wouldnt listen. He told me I have until tomorrow morning to "fix my mistake" and delete the post or he will be forced to terminate my employment for being a bad culture fit.

The thing is i literally cannot delete a post I didn't write. I have no idea who wrote it though honestly most of what it says is true. I've only been here for 4 months and I actually like my coworkers but the management is a mess. I tried to explain that anyone could have written it but he just kept cutting me off and saying "we both know the truth." I feel like I'm in some crazy fever dream. How can you be fired for something you didnt do and have no control over? Its not like I can call Glassdoor and ask them to take down a random review just to save my job.

I'm realy panicking right now because I need this paycheck to pay my rent but I also feel like I cant stay here if this is how they treat people. Should I go to HR first thing in the morning or is that just going to make things worse? I doubt they'll take my side since the CEO and my manager are pretty close. Has anyone else dealt with this kind of insanity? I feel like if I get fired for this it has to be some kind of wrongful termination but I'm in an at-will state so maby I'm just screwed. Any advice would be realy appreciated because I'm honestly lost.

I’ve never quite found my thing. I’m unemployed and over the last couple of years only one thing stood out to me. It feels like something I could be passionate about, and something that genuinely excites me. But what is the reality of working in real estate. I’d love to hear from people who actually work in the industry

One is an office job 8 hrs working with data and records. Pay is 59k I get 1 hr break the other is parking enforcement at 67k a year only work about 4 hours a day but clearly dealing with griefing people and being looked at menacingly. Is the pay worth the hrs and negative viewpoint?

So this is embarrassing for me to admit but, I'm currently twenty five and have never had a job and no it wasn't because of school or anything, I just thought I wasn't ready when I was still a teenager and now here I am 25 struggling to find my very first job an unable to drive which adds a whole other issue. I've been to several job interviews and have obviously not gotten any hits and it's driving me nuts does anyone have tips or advice I could really use it.

I Feel like I’m getting taken advantage of at my Job and I want advice.
Some info on my scenario
I work at a Production Plant. But my jobs not in production. Recently Production had 3 people leave and while searching for new people they asked if I would help for 3 hours of my shift a day. This has since changed to 4 and a half. Said it would last probably 2-4 weeks. I said yes, and this is the start of week 6. My work for my main job was not at all cut and I’ve been rushing my main job to try and help production. I had a verbal agreement with my shift manager that I would do the whole job for those hours a day, EXCEPT 1 part I didn’t feel comfortable with, and he would have to come over and do it if required. He agreed. Today the shift manager was on break and the main plant manager covered his shift. I went up to him and told him, (paraphrased don’t remember exact convo)
“Hey this happened, I need you to take care of it”
He said “Why do I have to, just get it done quick”
“I’m not comfortable doing it, I’ve been having shift manager do it when it comes up”
“Well that’s not gonna work, anyone doing “job I’m filling in for” needs to be able to do it”
“I get that, but I’m just filling the role as you know, I made an agreement with shift manager, that I’d help, except this part”
“Well that’s not gonna work, your gonna have to do it”
At the end of it all he asked me if I think I’m better then everyone else who has to do it. Since I don’t want to do it. And I just was befuddled. Like what? This is something not in my job description, I’m basically doing 1.5 people’s jobs, not getting payed any more for it. And you’re telling me because my base job pays more than the people who work in production, I should be willing to do all they do and more?

I sent a message to my roles Manager and told him i have to be done with this 2 job thing by the end of the week. He’s asleep rn so I won’t know what’ll come of it tell he wakes up.

I didn’t talk much to the plant manager cause I didn’t want to say anything that could get taken the wrong way.

Sorry for this being very scatterbrained, I’m writing this pissed off on my lunch break.
Any advice on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Whether it be legal or just job advice.

I just....I can't get hired and I have no skills, my annual income is under $9,200 a year

How I'm surviving? Living with family, paying bills with their help or online donations, and SNAP pays for cheap food. I also have Medicaid.

As the title states, what was the strategy/strategies that helped you print money for your company/ business? Apart from cold outreach x

I’m really nervous because I need to give me two weeks tomorrow. I’m a swim instructor at a very short staffed swim school, I’ve only been working there about two months, a month in I tried to quit and they asked me to stay and I didn’t know how to put my foot down. Now another job is lining up and I really do need to quit. Any advice, I’m so nervous.

- Applied on April 10th of the Direct Hire bid
- Deemed eligible on April 13th
- Interview on June 9th
- Received TOL on July 7th
- Received/Submitted EODS on July 8th
- Approved EODS on July 13th
- Received CIL on July 13th:
• Fingerprints on July 14th
• Drug Test on July 16th
- Received eAPP invite August 21st
- Submitted SF85P form on August 21st
- Received and signed FOL on September 2nd
- EOD October 18th

This position is for 2101 in the FAA. Thank you everyone who has guided me and helped me put my foot in the door. Feel free to ask me about my background or other information!

Please let me know if this is the wrong subreddit or that my post violates the guidelines.

I hope this is the right sub for this. If not sorry please lead me in the right direction.

I’m currently working a warehouse job 5pm-3:30am. I’m only off sun, mon and wed. And live about 30 minutes away from my job. I’m making just enough like covering bills but barely and slightly late. A second job is looking like the only way to get out of this hole I’m currently in.

My question is when would I work a second job? What hours would you guys recommend.

I've been trying to find a job for over a year now. I used to believe my resume was pretty strong and my experience valuable but after applying to hundreds of jobs for over a year and getting rejected, I start loosing confidence. Can anyone tell me if my CV is the problem?

My boss is very wishy washy. He is also hyper sensitive about things that (in my opinion) are not a big deal.

The pros: he calls me in when other people call out. That means he knows I am reliable.

He is social and confident.

The cons:

He gets offended if i forget to say "hi" to him when i walk into the store. Even though he did not say "hi" either. I guess ge expects me to say it first. If i dont say "hi" as soon as I walk into the store he says "You didn't say "hi" to me this morning." And he seems genuinely offended by it. I even told one of our coworkers "He is so sensitive" after she heard what he said to me. Then she agreed with me.

He is very nosey about my personal life. He once had a time where he snuck up behind me and bent down low enough to where his nose almost touched my phone screen while i was texting. When he did that I said "You are so nosey!" Then he laughed and said "Yes I am." I was already clocked out when that happened. I don't understand why he was being nosey about my phone like that. It seemed very unprofessional.

He seems to criticize how i communicate. He says that he gets frustrated if I am too quiet at work and that he needs me to speak up more after he tells me directions at work so that he knows that i heard him.

He gets upset if he sees me texting on my phone even though I have seen him and my coworkers use their phones a lot more often than me. I usually only use my phone in the back. I dont use it in front of the customers. I dont understand why its okay when everyone else uses their phone at work but when I use my phone he doesnt like it.

He tells me to speed up a lot.

He changes which station he wants me to work at a lot and sometimes tells me to work multiple stations a lot.

He use to make "jokes" about wanting to make me a manager but I couldnt tell if he was joking or not. When I asked him later if he was serious he said "We can have a conversation" but that conversation never happened.

He had one time where he asked me "are you lonely?" Out of nowhere. I don't know why he asked me that.

He seemed surprised when I told him I have a kid. All of my bosses seemed surprised about that. I did not tell them that I have a kid until much later cause I did not want to be discriminated against.

He changes my schedule last minute a lot. The schedule is made very last minute all the time and even after the schedule is made they still either tell me to either stay later or work a double or to clock out early even if it doesn't match what the schedule says.

He seems genuinely upset if he finds out I have a day off.

A few days ago when someone called out he kept calling me a lot until i finally answered and then he called me in.

He had one time where he rubbed one of my shoulders randomly. I couldnt tell if he did it as flirting or as being socially awkward or to be reassuring or what.

Almost everytime he works the same day as me he always finds more stuff to criticize. Its making me feel like I suck at my job.

I am a woman in my 30's. He is a man who is in his 50's.

She thinks with my brain fog and fatigue, the more straightforward nature of rad tech would be better for me. As a burnt out special education teacher who lost his career over basically a false accusation (and this was after surviving 6 years of parent/admin/student drama), I want to avoid the public as much as possible. I want good pay and job stability, so that's what's leading me to healthcare (very little boom/bust economics in healthcare, demand is steady), but I genuinely see the general public as violent, ignorant, unpredictable, and generally unpleasant to work with. I can imagine a delirious 300-pounder coming in I have to wrangle who wants to throw punches at me. I dealt with similar as a teacher, and as a retail pharmacy tech before that. Also, I have very slow reaction times and have to take a minute to remember what I was doing any time I get interrupted. I'm also a guy but kind of weak and clumsy for a guy, so I'd prefer to avoid heavy lifting or anything relying too heavily on gross motor coordination. Still, I should at least give her consideration here: she is very adamant I'm making a mistake if I choose lab over rad tech. I believe rad pays slightly more than lab based on a cursory search of job listings. Regardless of if I go lab or rad, I'd eventually want to move into the informatics equivalent of either, but I have seen most informatics jobs want hands on experience in whatever field the informatics is related to. Truth be told, I like people a lot better in the abstract than I like them in practice.

There is also that mental health masters I was going to do before I became a teacher, but I'm kind of lukewarm about that since my main draw is the telehealth angle and the prospect of MAYBE having some autonomy over who I have as clients. I'm thinking career/financial counseling would be my niche if I went that route because my favorite part of working with the more mildly disabled special ed teens was the career transition assessment, and I also think career/finance as a niche would be a lower acuity focus than other mental health specialties. I'm very burnt out on working with the moderate/severe intellectually disabled population, but I had some good experiences with the more mildly disabled.