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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/AllenMcnabb on 2025-12-12 19:54:56+00:00.

Been with a company since 2022, got laid off in May due to circumstances out of my control, and returned in august. Come to find my paycheck this morning didn’t have thanksgiving/Black Friday paid for, despite the company being closed for nationals holidays. Curious, I reached out to HR as to why this happened and I received a new PTO/holiday policy enacted in Jan 2025.

The new policy states that they don’t provide holiday/vacation hours until after the employee has worked one continuous year, and because I had a break in between longer than 45 days my previous time here means diddly poo.

This is the fun part, I asked *what* the reasoning for this new policy was and HR slave said she didn’t know, only that it was voted on by the executives. The six of them, in a room, taking away holidays and vacations but will never miss an opportunity pat themselves on the back reiterating what a “great company environment” they’re creating.

You know what?! I would’ve preferred the opposite. At least be honest that you took away a chunk of my paycheck to help fuel your ego. Fucking spineless bastards.

Anyway, thanks for letting me rant, hope everyone has a better holiday than me!

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/maroonwolf24 on 2025-12-12 19:34:27+00:00.

I get that the 40 hours is better than the 120 we were working before or whatever. But when was that? A hundred years ago?? When is the new technology going to finally trickle down to the little people on the front lines. Why is tech used to eliminate jobs instead of eliminating work?!

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/badr3plicant on 2025-12-12 19:04:03+00:00.

We know that remote work is the largest single improvement in quality of life white collar workers have seen over the last few decades, but we never meant for that to happen.

You're burning less fuel, putting fewer miles on your cars, saving thousands of dollars, easing road congestion for everyone else, and getting hundreds of hours of your life back every year. We know you're just as productive; we have the data. But we don't get to look over your shoulder. More importantly, by suffering less for your pay, you're taking advantage of us. The most important thing is that you, working class peon, never, under any circumstances, get to feel like you won anything, especially not at our expense. That's why we'll nitpick every expense report, buy you the cheapest laptop we can, and make sure that you can't have so much as a single houseplant in the office. Honestly it's not even about money, it's about the principle of the thing.

Circumstances beyond our control conspired to give you, you fucking peasant, privileges that are normally reserved for us, and this will not stand.

Who do you think you are anyway? You got a university degree and now you think you're better than anyone? Your job is to run the administrative state for our benefit. We hate you. You and your liberal politics and your whining about "rights" and "work-life balance" and "living wage" and "wealth inequality" and "fascism." Do you know how tiresome it is to listen to you? The whole lot of you make my skin crawl. But don't worry, we're working hard on AI so that we can replace 75% of you and pay the other 25% Walmart wages. We can't wait to watch you claw each others' eyes out for a chance at the few jobs an Nvidia GPU can't do.

So it's time to get back into your car, back into the overstuffed under-capacity subway to stand for 90 minutes, so that you can be in the office at 8am. And smile while you do it, you goddamned ingrate.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/sfgate on 2025-12-12 18:19:48+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/VeterinarianFair4324 on 2025-12-12 18:04:08+00:00.

In my corporation there are a lot of people who are noticeably overweight, especially higher ups. There seems to be a correlation between time spent in the car or at work and lack of fitness. Probably because most corporations expect deadlines to be met regardless of how much time it takes. Between work and other life responsibilities, minimal time is left to get sufficient exercise and cook healthy meals.

People love to knock the fast food industry and Americans’ bad choices, but the reality is that we’re usually at work so we can afford to stay alive, and we don’t have time to do things that would be very good for our health. And it’s only getting worse. I have to wake up at 5am to get a workout in. I do it, but don’t like that I have to get up so early to fit it in. We don’t have enough free time.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Ready_Reading9693 on 2025-12-12 17:29:45+00:00.

My boss had been riding my ass for weeks. He seemed to have to super human expectations from me and would nag at me over things that happened when I wasn't even there. I finally had my fill today and told him to fuck off. And I walked out.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/CarneyVorous on 2025-12-12 17:24:10+00:00.

I have a new boss who openly claims he's not impressed with anyone on the team and doesn't respect a single one of us. He wants to buy an unreasonable amount of new licenses for a tool that the current licensees don't even use.

The vendor emailed a quote this week, and as expected it was exorbitant. He fired back calling them ridiculous and demanding the price be cut in half. In the "spirit of partnership" with the vendor, he offered ME to fly across the planet and deliver a keynote speech at their client event.

Didn't ask me. Didn't consider that I don't do speaking engagements (and I never will). Just offered me and my time against my will. He then went on to BRAG about it in his next meeting, which I wasn't even part of. My colleagues came out of the meeting asking me about my speaking engagement and my boss still hadn't even talked with me about it.

I'm in such disbelief. Maybe I'm overreacting a little, but it felt dehumanizing to be used as a bargaining chip without my knowledge. Not to mention I'm a woman and he'd be sending me, alone, to a very misogynistic country.

I'm a person with a life. He may not have any respect for any of our work, but I deserve respect as a person.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Climberquarterly on 2025-12-12 17:18:32+00:00.

What’s been wearing me down lately isn’t workload or long hours, it’s how everything at my job is treated like an emergency. Emails marked urgent that aren’t. Meetings called last minute that could’ve been a message. Deadlines that suddenly can’t move even though they magically do a week later.

It creates this background anxiety where you’re always bracing for something, even on normal days. You can’t fully relax because you’re waiting for the next ping that’s going to demand immediate attention for no real reason. I’ve noticed it follows me home too I’ll be off the clock but still feel tense, like I forgot something important.

The strange thing is, I recently realized I have some money saved up enough that I’m not in immediate danger if things go sideways and instead of feeling relieved it made me more aware of how unnecessary the stress culture is. The job isn’t saving lives. The urgency is mostly manufactured and yet it takes up so much mental space. I don’t hate working. I just hate working in an environment where panic is treated like productivity. I wish more workplaces understood that constant pressure doesn’t make people perform better it just makes them exhausted.

Does anyone else feel like the fake urgency is more draining than the actual work itself?

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Eltuine on 2025-12-12 17:01:09+00:00.

Our office has a contest every year to pick a photo to use as our holiday card, which gets sent to all of our clients and suppliers. It's been a nice way to see photos submitted by people who work here, and we've had some really beautiful nature photography and Christmas lights be the winners in past years. The winner of the office-wide vote for the card's picture also gets a little gift (a small gift card).

This year, someone submitted an AI image of a fireplace and Christmas decorations, and it's currently in the lead to win the vote, over the pictures of actual Christmas trees, snowy landscapes, pets in holiday outfits, etc. I think it's in terribly poor taste, and also would not be great for our image to have AI as the face of our Christmas card. I'm pretty pissed off, and am currently trying to decide if it's worth raising a stink about if it wins. Should I even bother?

Edited to add: I am the person responsible for designing the card after the photo is chosen, so I can't just forget about it either.

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The original was posted on /r/television by /u/ControlCAD on 2025-12-12 20:52:52+00:00.

Speaking to PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, Muniz said it felt like "not a single day" had gone by when they began filming

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The original was posted on /r/television by /u/aduong on 2025-12-12 17:31:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/television by /u/ThrawnAndOrder on 2025-12-12 17:14:59+00:00.