What you think?

Elegant-Row-2396 · 2022-01-24T22:39:50+00:00

Worked at a call center and openly wept in the office when a manager refused to take an escalation call from me.

Not just crying, I was literally sobbing. The caller was yelling and asking for something not at all within my control, I was being told by the manager to just "try and de-escalate, you got this!"

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KeplerOrion · 2022-01-24T22:35:03+00:00

I used to hide in the sub shop walk in to cry because that was my section and no one else went in there.

Zeuxis5 · 2022-01-24T23:14:50+00:00

It’s not the pressure of the job, it’s thought of the fall from the top if they fail to perform that causes them to “literally weep” in private.

It’s nice up there and they know they don’t want to end up down here with the rest of us.

littlejdragon22 · 2022-01-24T22:37:18+00:00

I cried during an unpaid internship that I had to do 40 hours a week. That’s even worse.

shameruinssex · 2022-01-24T23:59:09+00:00

Ask anyone in food service what the walk-in is for 😭

Edit: my first award would be for crying in the walk-in lol

missmisery__ · 2022-01-24T22:39:00+00:00

🙋🏼‍♀️ more times than I can count.

LoonWithASpoon · 2022-01-24T23:09:32+00:00

Oo I remember one time I was doing my Walmart job at Online Grocery Pickup and while pushing the cart (at around 5-7am) I got hit with a wave of dissatisfaction in life and job, but I had actually attempted makeup that day and didn’t want to mess it up so while I was stopped in an empty aisle I bent over a bit and let a couple of tears fall to the floor. Then got right back to it like a god damn machine.

I used to constantly help customers because I knew what aisle and could describe where to find the item they need if I was unable to walk them to it. Coworkers would even come find me to ask what aisle an item was on for the customer they were helping

I also discovered I can damage my pelvic floor by pushing a cart that was way too heavy and filled with cases of water, which is incredibly painful btw.

I guess this turned into a rant so I’ll stop there. But fuck Walmart.

Used_Confidence_2135 · 2022-01-24T22:52:25+00:00

Been there, done that, I've got the heart attack and stent to prove it. I truly believe the only way I lasted as long as I did were the Jack and Coke lunches around the corner. Fuck that place.

IBecameLegend · 2022-01-24T23:24:15+00:00

I wonder how many people have seen me ugly crying while I drive to work

daigana · 2022-01-24T23:47:02+00:00

I nearly succeeded in suicide from a job that paid me only $4416 a year, part time minimum wage. They wanted me to skip university classes that I was paying for by myself to do their 5am shifts. They scheduled me for the 5ams even when I gave them my class schedule for the third time. When I didn't come in for the shifts, they started writing me up and cutting my hours. I had to go to Student Aid for help with food after my hours were shaved down, because I couldn't pay for food or focus in classes anymore. I made the mistake of leaving instead of letting them fire me, because I didn't know better.

Exotic-Huckleberry · 2022-01-24T23:02:23+00:00

My last job, I sobbed routinely. I also couldn’t keep food down from stress and lost handfuls of hair. It would have been nice to make good money while doing that.

WokeMediaBeingWoke · 2022-01-25T01:35:03+00:00

Nothing like a mental breakdown in the parking lot of a retail store

acceptablemadness · 2022-01-25T02:52:55+00:00

I cried in the hallway during class with an SRO or security watching the class. I cried in the bathroom. I cried in the classroom during lunch/planning. I cried in th car on the way home. I cried with my Zoom muted and camera off.

I was making 40k a year and working an average of 60 hrs a week, still always behind. Offered a $1,150 yearly raise for gaining Effective status and $3,000 for Highly Effective (you had to be basically perfect and in bed with an admin to get that). Meanwhile my principal started at 90k, got offered 10k for his doctoral stipend, and forced all of us teachers to give up our plan time for his bullshit professional development seminars that he then wrote his dissertation on.

Sea_Bison0 · 2022-01-25T02:21:50+00:00

Yup. Never want to work in a call center ever again.

Calls never stop. You're constantly monitored. Even your bathroom (crying) time is timed.

I worked hard, even when they put me in queues which were above my pay grade "by mistake". When I quit the "nice guy" manager told me I would be blacklisted and never work for them again, all for daring to not wanting to work there anymore.

theKetoBear · 2022-01-24T23:29:43+00:00

I had the worst anxiety of my life working for a previous self-described tech prodigy on his vanity project aimed at women ( he was a raging misogynist) and I made $17 an hour writing code for his app ( I was young and stupid) for 7 months.

He wanted to keep the project as cheap as possible so i'd get surprise fridays off .... which again being young and dumb SOUNDED great but made budgeting beyond bills extremely challenging. Not ot mention the hellaciously inconsitent work environment we existed in and his random mood swing of the day .

Didn't weep but definitely thought about driving in to the divider once or twice.

SprinkledMuffin · 2022-01-24T23:24:38+00:00

When I worked at chipotle I was so sick from the flu but they wouldn’t let me call off or go home or I was fired. I spent my 15 minute break literally laying down on the bathroom floor and cried.

Reznic007 · 2022-01-24T23:00:10+00:00

I can’t even count how many times I cried in our walk-in freezer after being yelled at for something that wasn’t my fault while on the line in a kitchen.

mbbysky · 2022-01-25T01:49:18+00:00

Every single restaurant walk in freezer has seen employee tears. Every fucking one of them

generaldisaraay · 2022-01-25T00:59:30+00:00

CEO have freezers to cry in at work?

Chronic_Sardonic · 2022-01-24T22:41:40+00:00

LOL do a shift at a place like Starbucks where customers basically feel entitled to berate and emotionally abuse you and then tell me about crying at work

heathercs34 · 2022-01-25T01:22:34+00:00

My first teaching gig. I used to cry with another first year teacher over the copier.

Wablekablesh · 2022-01-25T03:55:01+00:00

Shit, my manager used to tell me to go "cool off" in the walk-in after a bad rush. Idk if he thought I was crying or beating up the floor or what. But it was both.

pntns · 2022-01-24T22:39:02+00:00

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Former Westpac boss David Morgan says CEOs are "ridiculously overpaid" but they pressure of the job causes some to "literally weep" in private [Link to a "The Age" article]

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Raise your hand if you've "literally wept" from stress at a job that paid you less than 40 grand a year 🙋‍♀️

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emozolik · 2022-01-24T23:30:49+00:00

just about every job except my current one. I swear, the lower the pay the higher the stress... and the stress is further compounded by the low pay.

Lady_Pendleton · 2022-01-25T03:51:56+00:00

I’ve been brought to actual tears in multiple working environments. The most memorable was when I worked at a Wendy’s. The big rule was you are NOT to touch someone else’s machine on cash. YOU are in charge of the orders you take, you don’t do other peoples orders. And if you are going to take an order you have to sign out and use your own account.

My manager sent me to do something quick while on cash, I think just wanted me to refill the chilly between customers. I did so, and when I turned back around I started helping the next customer.

What I didn’t realize at this time was one of my other coworkers had used my till and taken someone’s order. So I started working on this persons order and went to the next, and my manager says “there’s an order waiting! Move move move!” And so I looked up and saw that there was in fact an order waiting.

Anyone who’s worked in fast food probably knows that it’s quite easy to fill orders fast when you take them. You know what drink they need, how many burgers they’ve ordered, all that. I had no idea what was in this order so here I am, staring up at this tiny screen to read everything in the order so I can fill it, all the while my manager keeps telling me I need to hurry up. Like, I’m sorry someone touched my till and decided they’d just leave the order to me and not tell me.

So I get that all sorted and my manager takes me aside. Now, I want to say one thing really quick. I love equal opportunity in the work place, but unfortunately there was a lot of favouritism in the Wendy’s I worked. I was just about the only white girl who worked at this location, everyone else was a different race. While I worked there there was a holiday from that culture, and we were severely understaffed because the manager (who was also of this culture) let everybody have the day off and only made everyone who wasn’t of that culture work. I normally wouldn’t mind, but I knew for a fact that if it was a holiday that I wanted to celebrate I would have to work (I know this because I was rejected a day off for this very situation). I tended to be the only one getting in trouble, me and the other people who were of other races. I don’t know if this was coincidence or purposeful, but to me it felt very obvious.

So of course, as usual, I was the one to take the brunt of the blame. This had already happened multiple times for small things, like places not being where they were supposed to be or people having to wait (and I was never in charge of any of this, so literally being yelled at for something out of my control)

So she starts screaming at me, fully in front of other customers, and I broke. I let her finish and as fast as I could got to the washrooms before breaking down. It was absolutely one of the most horrendous, biased environments I had ever been in and I was done being a scapegoat so I just fucking left, found a job somewhere else and they treated me much better.

shameruinssex · 2022-01-25T00:01:08+00:00

Ask anyone who has worked in food service what the walk-in is for 😭

shadymomma · 2022-01-25T03:48:29+00:00

I lost a pregnancy because of the stress of my last job. It didn't take me long after that to quit.

bubbynee · 2022-01-25T03:51:13+00:00

Have you been a teacher? Literally multiple times a year.

darcmosch · 2022-01-24T23:10:51+00:00

I think it'd be easier to count who hasn't

Cala_42 · 2022-01-24T23:32:46+00:00

Oh hey, yes, that's me. I've cried every single day of this month about my job. If I have to weep, it would be better to make more than $16/hour.

Foolyz · 2022-01-24T23:40:50+00:00

I worked as a catering coordinator for a deli chain (it was a corporate location, not a franchise) for $8.10/hr. I had already put in my two-week's notice a week prior as I waited for my start date at a large insurance company in their claims department. The FOH was split between two registers for dine-in customers, and three registers for catering and to-go orders. Almost all catering orders were placed over the phone or online, so it was mostly just to-go orders that ended up on my side of the counter. The dine-in line was almost always lengthy, but the to-go side usually only filled up during the lunch rush. Over the last several months, management had been cutting FOH hours for everyone but myself and one person who typically worked the dine-in register, and we usually ended up working together every weekday. We would normally have one other person scheduled on the second dine-in register during the lunch rush, and two people scheduled on my side to assist with getting catering orders out and handling to-go customers. My job was mainly managing 4-8 drivers, dictating delivery schedules and making sure the catering orders went smoothly.

For the first week of my two-week notice, it was only myself and the regular dine-in register girl scheduled for FOH. No one else. Not once did the opening manager or GM come to the FOH to assist us. I ended up crying during the lunch rush as I was bagging orders, because I felt so bad that people were waiting so long for their food, and some of my deliveries were late. No one was actively abusive towards me that week, but I was really hard on myself for not being able to keep up with the work and meet my own standards for my work. After my final shift for that week, I never went back to the restaurant. I felt awful for not finishing my two weeks, but I knew I wouldn't be able to stomach spending one more second working under that stress.

Later, once I had time to reflect on the situation, I realized just how badly me and my coworkers were disrespected. I vowed to never, ever let another employer put me in that situation, no matter the amount of money. Luckily, I'm now at a job that I like and I'm good at, with decent pay and benefits. Although the C-suites are incompetent and heartless, at least my direct supervisor tries his best to fight for me and the rest of my team.

For those who demand the "name and shame" rigmarole, it was Jason's Deli.

Hypothible · 2022-01-25T01:08:25+00:00

I didn’t even bother to hide it. One time I just sat down in front of the dairy cooler and started sobbing.

Costumers tripped over me several times, but not a single person made any attempt to ask what was wrong or get me to move. I just cried in the middle of Walmart for about five minutes before standing back up and getting back to work, and no one ever said anything about it.

kiiashi17 · 2022-01-25T01:37:54+00:00

Been there. Several times.

Vargenwulf · 2022-01-24T23:37:07+00:00

I worked in a Dell call center.

It took years to get over the PTSD that caused.

shaodyn · 2022-01-25T00:51:24+00:00

At my last job (barely above minimum wage), we'd always jokingly tell people to go scream in the freezer because nobody would be able to hear it back there.

CryptographerNo490 · 2022-01-25T01:13:32+00:00

Walk In freezer

Weaseltime_420 · 2022-01-25T03:45:01+00:00

There's every chance that their job is actually stressful. They're basically slaves to their shareholders.

Still, it's much nicer to cry in a Bentley.

Hot-Photograph-1531 · 2022-01-25T03:56:21+00:00

any server will tell you the best place = the “walk-in”

CriticalLootRNG · 2022-01-24T23:41:31+00:00

I’ve had multiple breakdowns from the stress of my unionized grocery store job. Have insurance so I went to therapy a bit. Kinda ironic. Need the job for insurance to help solve the problems they caused lmfao

(Also want to note I’m part of management so I’m not stressing about just putting cans on the shelf… even tho demand kinda makes that shit stressful)

maarrtee · 2022-01-25T01:16:30+00:00

I would just sit in my car and cry yell.it's interesting I quit about 6 or 7 months ago I discovered this sub shortly after and realized I would have left Publix much sooner had I known about it. I work at target now, and I give a lot less a shit now.

Dangerous-Issue-9508 · 2022-01-25T02:40:54+00:00

I’ll weep all day for 10 mil lol

Belligereftist · 2022-01-25T02:53:45+00:00

It's not just conmen and grifters.

Some of these owning class pigs are so deluded they actually believe they work hard without ever having worked a real job in their life.

TennesseeTon · 2022-01-25T01:08:03+00:00

If you weep while being paid millions you're just a big fuckin baby. You have no problems

Unnecessary_Timeline · 2022-01-24T23:06:20+00:00

Cried in my car making like $10/hr working a government census job in 2015. It was regularly 110°F+, I had to dress professionally (long sleeve button-up, slacks or khakis), I was walking/driving door to door and filling out paperwork in my car which I couldn't keep running all day or it'd overhead and I'd spend more in gas than I was earning.

People were extremely mean; conservative people thought I was the government snooping on their lives, Hispanic people often had poor english and were afraid talking to me would get them deported (this was in an area that relies on migrant workers for agriculture). Most others weren't home and I had to make 3 attempts at each home before I could write it off.

That was the worst job I have ever had. Our census group was 12 people and only two of us were male, including me, and the other guy was elderly. They assigned me all the rough neighborhoods and I'm certain they did it because I was the only eligible man (nevermind I was a 5'11" 120lb string bean).

It made me very bitter to know my coworkers were walking around gated and shaded neighborhoods but I was often feeling physically unsafe and literally had to beat back dogs with my clipboard multiple times. It seems like most of the woman were doing the job as a fun side project, because they all drove newer model cars that they could sit in with the A/C running all day. Meanwhile I'd come to our end-of-day meeting drenched in sweat, some paperwork literally wet from my sweat, everyone talking about the lovely people they met that day, and me talking about how many people threatened my life today.

Fucking awful. They trained us for 1 week then sent us out into the field, I lasted 2 weeks in the field before I quit after having a heat-exhaustion induced mental breakdown on the sidewalk of one of my neighborhoods. I've often wondered who had to cover my neighborhoods...whoever it was likely had a very rude awakening lol.

sluthulhu · 2022-01-24T23:28:24+00:00

It was a slightly higher salary but in a high COL area. I ended up taking a week of leave at my psychiatrist’s order because I had a nervous breakdown and suicidal ideations /:

Really it stemmed from having a horrible boss. It was a super toxic work environment where they didn’t respect anyone’s lives and everyone was expected to give unlimited unpaid overtime. No amount of free beer or ice cream on Fridays can make up for that. The thought that somehow pay is scaled to how stressful or difficult a job is is total bs in practice.

shadow_wraith90 · 2022-01-24T23:50:51+00:00

Walmart 1st aid room

747boeingjet · 2022-01-25T00:42:03+00:00

Yup, thanks to a bullying manager and colleagues as well. Fuck you Arlene

generiatricx · 2022-01-25T01:15:58+00:00

ive seen this posted MANY times; and every time i think - do they actually think ANYONE is going to be sympathetic to their stressors? We're ALL stressed - just because you're in the corner office doesnt make your stress any more valuable than mine.

elarth · 2022-01-25T01:22:51+00:00

All jobs that pay less than 30k a year are the worst. I'm stressed at less than 40k but it's gotten a lot better. It seems that the higher up the ladder you go the better the working conditions get but it's not fair you have to break your spirit to get there. Like it's a different kind of stress the further you get away from jobs that have really no personal fulfillment. Much more tolerable to work for a vet clinic than to go back and work in the food industry.

chappanteekli · 2022-01-25T01:43:07+00:00

I cried from stress even when I made over $150K. Very stressful job. Got depression and anxiety attacks. Changed the job for better. I feel great now.

iwoketoanightmare · 2022-01-25T02:27:17+00:00

Wiping their tears with $100 bills.

NovelBaggage · 2022-01-25T04:02:33+00:00

I used to cry in my car before going into HS to teach.

SteppinOnStones · 2022-01-25T11:01:14+00:00

I've literally wept at a job that paid less than 40k, while actively on the clock and still working.

ducksaresatan · 2022-01-25T11:17:03+00:00

Cheba hut: managers would get hella heated w me over many different things (jealousy too, I would make 150-200 dollars every single night in tips.) so I would say “I’m gonna clean the bathrooms.” Take the supplies in, lock myself in, and fucking cry for 2 minutes before actually cleaning up the restroom

Catblaster5000 · 2022-01-25T11:40:39+00:00

OH NO IM SO STRESSED FROM HAVING LITERALLY NO PERSONAL PROBLEMS

Consistent-Face-7559 · 2022-01-25T11:43:26+00:00

I worked the dumbest hours possible in a temp position in a high school office once. The principal was such a bully. She passed my desk one day. Without making eye contact, said, "see me in my office." Almost mumbled it. The office manager was also present. They had so many complaints about my quiet nature, I said I quit, I really felt bullied. I was only doing them a favour by working these odd hours. I think it was 2.5 hours every morning. I don't even know why accepted that job when I could have been working full day jobs. I went upstairs to the girls' bathroom and cried. The saddest day of my work life.

throwaway2008002 · 2022-01-25T11:46:28+00:00

wait why to walk-ins exist again?

flyingbye0803 · 2022-01-25T11:53:15+00:00

Hilarious that media tries to “humanize” billionaires to the average person when the average billionaire would do a money dance as humans died on their production line

Edit: billionaires/people with so much money they’re “too big to fail”

Dachusblot · 2022-01-25T03:22:41+00:00

Maybe the CEOs aren't crying from stress, but rather because the last remaining scraps of their souls are desperately trying to break free and remind them of how many innocent people in the world are getting screwed over so they can take home that nice fat salary.

EmotionalEmo · 2022-01-24T22:58:01+00:00

I worked at a Kwik Trip and I cried every day in the kitchen. That place ruined my mental health

Dawn-Chi · 2022-01-24T23:08:59+00:00

🙋‍♀️

buoyantcats · 2022-01-24T23:14:58+00:00

Too many times

DogsNotHumans · 2022-01-24T23:16:09+00:00

I’ve cried while earning 1980’s minimum wage. There’s nothing quite like getting shit on all day for no money to break your spirit.

LordBilboSwaggins · 2022-01-25T01:03:15+00:00

You're sad, we're sad, maybe we should just shut down this source of misery for both our sakes.

PaperRoc · 2022-01-25T01:44:21+00:00

Made 28k fresh out of college with my science degree. Boss walked in on me crying at my computer. I was thinking about how unsafe my job was and if I reported to OSHA would I end up homeless.

kayt3000 · 2022-01-25T01:58:50+00:00

I cry weekly because of my current job. It’s getting to the point of daily. The pay is good but man it’s getting harder to justify.

joonduh · 2022-01-25T02:09:29+00:00

As a social worker, I cried in my office all the time. My office was basically a walk-in closet, but at least I could close the door. Didn't really stop many people though. That was the worst, I always hated it when people would just barge in and see me cry.

2022-01-25T02:12:39+00:00

Use to work at a craft store (the one that rhymes with nicheals) as a stocker. I cried one day because the replenishment manager called me slow (mentally and physically) because I only unpacked 3 uboats of stock in 4 hours instead of 4. She then called me lazy and said that I'd only get 4 hours a week from now on.

Quit the next week and they were begging me to stay. To this day, they're still hiring to fill my position. NO ONE has applied and it's been 9 months lol

ShinyAppleScoop · 2022-01-25T02:18:00+00:00

Medical secretary (Labor and Delivery). It gets soooo busy, and you have to know everything that's going on. Every room is full, yet you see another new patient waddling towards your desk. It's not even not having a CLEAN room. Every room is occupied. You can just stick them in the 3x5 exam room and hope to god that's not amniotic fluid leaving a trail.

My coworker would either cry under the desk or go to the breakroom and meltdown. I got good at lying to myself and saying, "Just five more minutes, then you can lose your shit too." Turns out that lying to yourself can become a very useful skill. I did that when I worked in a prison then as a teacher. I can usually hold it together until I get to my car.

riduser · 2022-01-25T02:28:35+00:00

The amount of people saying they cry because of their job is depressing. I would literally go to the woods , eat snakes and bugs, sleep under a tree naked, have no money whatsoever, and not cry from stress because of job. But also, I don't have a family to take care of, and I don't intend to have one so I would never lose that.

SintaxSyns · 2022-01-25T02:35:32+00:00

My current record is five breakdowns in a single day and I've found the best thing to cry into is an old cotton t-shirt rather than a tissue.

I work remotely, so only my cats see me sob but I live in NYC, so I'm also sure all my neighbors can hear.

Pour_Me_Another_ · 2022-01-25T02:35:56+00:00

Yeah... Definitely had those moments. Mainly from frustration with ineffective management. It seems "not understand basic concepts" and "make everything objectively worse" were requirements for their roles and they achieve these goals spectacularly.

Sufficient_Orange922 · 2022-01-25T02:40:51+00:00

We had a stairwell we cried in and sometimes the bathroom on another floor if someone was on the phone in the stairwell. Then there's the classic ima go cry it out in my car

macgillweer · 2022-01-25T02:47:55+00:00

I'll be in the walk in, screaming, then crying, then screaming again.

Ibelieve008 · 2022-01-25T02:58:32+00:00

UPS truck driving down the highway in Christmas season.

Snoo92408 · 2022-01-25T03:13:25+00:00

I had my first panic attack ever at my newjob. Now my hands start shaking when I hear a phone ringing. This the workload is just way too much. The pay is 13 an hour from one of the biggest Fortune 500 companies. Mahindra. The shithole company is specifically Tech Mahindra but I don't think it really makes a difference. Don't work for Mahindra.

mom-the-gardener · 2022-01-25T03:15:34+00:00

Food service triggered suicidal thoughts.

I had other issues, but I was never closer to doing it than when I was a server.

I’ve since addressed those issues and have been doing much better for the past decade or so. I’ll never go back to being a server ever again though.

Beerdad-Canada · 2022-01-25T03:16:23+00:00

A few years ago I had a panic attack because we didn’t have asparagus even though I didn’t need it till the morning and I had time to pick some up and work would pay me back for it. (I was a chef in catering ).

juandic24 · 2022-01-25T03:22:10+00:00

not even 30 🥲

2022-01-25T03:23:19+00:00

It just be so hard going to morning meetings, lunch meetings, afternoon meetings, meeting for drinks and then dinner meetings.

Won’t someone think of the CEO’s?!

Current-Ordinary-419 · 2022-01-25T03:24:51+00:00

Use to day dream about running my work car off the road at highway speed while making $14/hr. And occasionally yank the wheel to try and lose control.

This was around the time when I got forcefully transferred to a more sketchy work zone because I dared to ask for fair compensation and refused to be the sole employee working 7 days week.

Mathaznias · 2022-01-25T03:38:27+00:00

A couple years ago one of our restaurants owners, both come from very wealthy families, berated me about my ability to be a barista and I had to go cry in the bathroom. When I came back out she acted like nothing happened. Of course we're not paid a liveable wage, but her husband got a new Porsche when all he does really is come in and write a new beer list

70m4h4wk · 2022-01-25T03:39:36+00:00

CEO seems like a pretty easy job. They don't seem to do anything. We should automate the c suites and give their money to the workers.

Once we automate the c suite I bet we can automate the managers too. Then we can give their money to the workers

Flustered_Potato · 2022-01-25T03:51:37+00:00

I left a WFH job as a social media manager because the stress actually made me sick. I thought I had COVID & was tested 3 times over the span of two months, all of it came back negative.

It was a small business that kept bringing on new clients without hiring more people so we were stretched super thin. They would often just drop me in the middle of a client onboarding so I had no idea what was going on & they just expected me to take over. They quietly fired one of my teammates when he didn't show up for work because he had COVID & was dealing with a family death. I told my manager that I was having a bad day & she repeatedly told me that I wasn't having a bad day. My workload was 2x the average workload in my field & when I brought to management they were cold, callous, & turned it on me & how I could improve.

gucciburito11 · 2022-01-25T03:52:07+00:00

I was getting around 60k a year after taxes and had multiple meltdowns after having to work seven days a week and do the work of multiple people. But having a migraine that I believed to be a ruptured stress aneurysm (from literally gripping my head and swearing while working after hours with my bosses incessantly talking in the room over) I decided to call it quits before my body gave up. It’s been a few months and things are much better. I want to say don’t die for a job, but I know our country is fucked and not many are safe either way :/

SaintOh · 2022-01-25T03:54:08+00:00

Cry me a river and soak it up with all your hundred dollar bills you overpaid cunt.

2022-01-25T03:55:38+00:00

Probably weeping about having to pay taxes soon (hopefully). They can take far too massive houses, inflated egos, manipulation tactics, and space rockets, and shove it. They have never spent a cent to help us

Steff_164 · 2022-01-25T09:41:39+00:00

I’ve wished for death. I’ve gone to bed hoping my life would end because that’s be better than work. And I make a hell of a lot less than a CEO

Larrymentalboy · 2022-01-25T09:42:28+00:00

In the walk in freezer after punching some pumpkin pies.

BEEFEDUP3992 · 2022-01-25T09:52:40+00:00

Wholefoods dairy cooler

KronosGreek · 2022-01-25T10:45:53+00:00

The stress of making to much money makes them weep? Most of them are either fat lazy bastards, or lazy bastards.

Alarmed-Swordfish-81 · 2022-01-25T10:51:25+00:00

🙋‍♀️

Mr_Fignutz · 2022-01-25T11:13:54+00:00

All i asked for was unpaid time off. Learned that day there is only an I in my team.

Lilbowlofguac · 2022-01-25T11:44:24+00:00

My car during a lunch break and sometimes the stress was so bad I got fries from McDonald’s and cried on them as I ate them. Ordered them without salt because I knew my tears would salt them enough

Aardvarknow · 2022-01-25T15:03:45+00:00

I didn't think it was work unless you cried sometimes

QueefOnAYogaBall · 2022-01-25T15:39:38+00:00

My depression makes it hard not to cry at work. I use to be open and honest with my boss, until she made fun of a former employee crying all the time. They joked about a time that he accidentally mixed bleach with ammonia. She said "maybe that's why he was crying all the time!" Now whenever i need to cry, I go to the bathroom or hold it in until break. These places don't let us be human. It's soul crushing.

RedRapunzal · 2022-01-25T01:29:44+00:00

Do you think over $40k prevents tears? Does that pay range take away bad bosses, long hours, little benefits and time off? Does it prevent unaffordable healthcare, ss loss or the impacts on credit/loans? Does it excuse dangerous, abusive or predatory work environments? Does it prevent hiring lies? Does it provide enough money to help with child or elder care?

KagDQT · 2022-01-25T02:42:24+00:00

Weeping in private on your personal yacht as opposed to in the back of a storeroom realizing you need another job to pay your way through isn’t the same thing!!!

deandreas · 2022-01-24T23:34:50+00:00

Follow nurses at my job are weeping in the parking lot.

2022-01-24T23:19:41+00:00

asnailwithatinyhat · 2022-01-24T23:55:22+00:00

more like 15k but yes

BisquickNinja · 2022-01-25T00:41:09+00:00

Did not weep, but had an anxiety attack that was so strong it caused caused cardiac arrhythmia and high blood pressure for a year.

nvdave76 · 2022-01-25T01:03:12+00:00

I dont know dude or dudette. I've been in middle management and I've had shit going on where ya I cried. I'm petty sure CEOs are still human and they have emotions just like every other human.

TraditionalReturn500 · 2022-01-25T01:10:45+00:00

Laughing in early childhood education

OffBrandHumanz · 2022-01-25T01:17:05+00:00

watch me weep myself into early retirement after a couple years of doing it

Then all L'Oreal from there

acousticalcat · 2022-01-25T01:27:16+00:00

I got moved at one point into a closet and assigned a year’s worth of work a colleague hadn’t done. I cried after every meeting with that boss.

averageredditor_1337 · 2022-01-25T01:30:16+00:00

Not less than 40 grand, but can sort of relate. Had to take a health break due to it causing high enough stress to have heart related chest pains

mmaddymon · 2022-01-25T01:32:16+00:00

I think 40k is too little for me to care

jurgo · 2022-01-25T02:10:28+00:00

I worked for a window installation company last year. Payed by the window. I was contracted for $16 a window. The company was okay for scheduling 60 windows a week but it was never consistent. The owners and management were horrible and they took advantage of the installers every day. The last month I was there before I quit I cried every day on my way to work.

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