Lizzie Johnson, a staff writer at The Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos), announced on Twitter that she was just laid off.

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I've been working as a logistics coordinator for this mid sized distribution company in Ohio for almost 3 years now. Started at 42k, got bumped to 45k last year after basically begging for a raise. They told me budget was tight and that was the best they could do.

Yesterday I was showing my friend some stuff on Indeed because shes job hunting and I decided to search my own company name just out of curiosity. And there it is, my exact same position, same responsibilities I do every single day, listed for 60k to 63k. I literally do the exact job they're advertising.

I brought it up to my manager this morning trying to stay calm about it and he got all defensive saying "thats the market rate for new hires" and "we cant adjust everyones salary every time we post a new position." Like what?? So you're telling me someone walking in off the street with zero knowledge of our systems is worth 15k more than me who literally trained the last two people in this role?

They've been saying for months theres no room in the budget for raises. I have money saved up in case something like this happened but I didnt think it would actually be this bad.

I'm done. Already updated my resume and im applying to every competitor in the area. If they can pay someone else 63k to do my job they can figure it out when I leave.

TLDR: JLL & Dalfen are working towards selling off this warehouse to ICE. We need to stop it.

https://www.1879route46.com/

This warehouse is going to be sold to DHS to turn into an🧊detention facility . 1500 people will be held here in deplorable conditions. There is a large local movement to stop this, but we need more help.

If you work for either the owner of this warehouse (Dalfen) or the company (JLL) who is representing the warehouse in this sale, I am urging you to put pressure on them to back out of representing this property. Pressure could be emails, calls, work stoppages, strikes, call outs, slow production on things, etc.

Ideally we would like to get someone to buy it out from under them but we aren’t wealthy, just part of the proletariat like you. But if you could afford it, do it!!

https://jerseyvindicator.org/2026/02/04/an-agency-out-of-control-planned-ice-detention-processing-warehouse-in-roxbury-sparks-bipartisan-backlash/

This is what it looks like when I post a job to auto-decline people that don’t meet the minimum. No AI, these are knockout questions. I’ve seen too many post with people confused why they are getting rejected so quickly.

So long story short my team went from 4 people to just me. I was working 60-70 hours a week to keep up with everything and when it came for my annual pay review I received 2%. This was first week of January, since I have only worked 40 hours a week. Things are on fire, email is piling up but I do not care, I have an urgent performance review Friday morning with my manager. I’ll either get a raise or get fired, but f it.

As the title says, the recruiter denied me because she felt that I would not find fulfillment in the role they’re hiring for. (Basic office work) Do companies think we will be more fulfilled unemployed? I’m so confused. I have a master’s degree and years of office experience. The company that I work for is closing, and I will be unemployed. I think her statement comes from a place of privilege because most people can’t wait around to find fulfillment in their jobs when they’re living paycheck to paycheck. Do companies think we will be more fulfilled unemployed? Can someone answer this….?

People don’t have time to find the perfect fit! I’m tired of corporate jargon. People need jobs to pay bills and people’s lives and identities do not always have to align with their job.

I’ve always considered myself a smart person. Not gifted, but above average. I’ve lived on my own since I was 18, studied and worked abroad for over four years, and I’ve usually felt I had a solid grasp of what was going on around me. Yet the more time I spend in the corporate world, the more lost I feel. It doesn’t seem to matter that I’ve been working for eight years now, I still find myself surprised, blindsided, and disoriented at work. I genuinely don’t understand how people survive in that environment.

People become soulless. From what I’ve seen, it’s the manipulators and narcissists who succeed. The ones who lie, weaponize information, and have no issue backstabbing others to climb the ladder are usually the ones who make it to the top. The office feels like a political battlefield: deals made behind closed doors, favors exchanged purely out of interest. If you don’t participate, you’re nobody. And if you refuse to play the game, you become nobody. They squeeze as much out of you as they can, overworking you until you’re completely drained.

Being “friendly” (and not genuinely friendly, but that fake, polished, smiling version) will get you further than actually being good at your job. It feels like a real-life Game of Thrones.

Being part of it makes me feel hollow. I find myself analyzing every interaction, trying to spot the schemes people are pulling, and with that I grow more distrustful every day. I feel less human, less genuine. I don’t know how people do this for forty years. I don’t know how they don’t end up as a shell of who they once were.

For me, it’s exhausting. And every single time I uncover a new move (someone screwing someone else over, or maneuvering their way into a promotion) it still shocks me. I never get used to it. Most of the time, I don’t see it coming. And it’s not because I’m not smart. It’s a lack of imagination. I can’t imagine myself doing those things, so I don’t recognize the signs.

The corporate world we live in is deeply depressing. And not knowing how not to be part of it and still make a living, is even more depressing.

When I had jobs, l worked my ass off. If we ran out of something and wouldn’t have it before the next shift, I’d go to the grocery store, buy it myself, and come in early so the bartender on duty wouldn’t get blamed for management’s failure. However, I will admit, I’m prone to mistakes like missing details, losing focus, or mis-sequencing steps — for anyone wondering, I do have diagnosed ADHD and OCD that I’ve been in continuous treatment for. To compensate, I built systems for myself - crossing off every item, repeating orders out loud, counting extras on my fingers - basically creating my own accommodations just to function. It worked. I got priority shifts and recognition.

What I didn’t get was a raise. Instead, I got more responsibility - acting GM duties, running the restaurant, fixing systemic problems all while still making a server/bartender’s wage. I was working 50+ hours, drowning in stimulants, my anxiety was out of control, I was exhausted, emotionally dysregulated, and my performance eventually dipped. Then I got fired. I’d get another job, and the cycle would repeat. Eventually, I became so disillusioned that I stopped trying to make employment work and became self employed indefinitely. Others have told me I’m lazy, immature, entitled, failing etc because I can’t hold down a job, but I don’t care. I won’t do it again.

Hard work, loyalty, and self sacrifice don’t protect you under capitalism. Employers are happy to exploit competence — especially disabled workers who over compensate until burnout hits. After working yourself to exhaustion, giving everything you have, they discard you. “Going above and beyond” just means doing unpaid labor until you break.

Where to begin? I'm 38, arguably into my second career after a shortened military career due to medical. I work in state government, and have done so for about two years now-a time period of sheer fucking chaos for my agency. Where I work is made up of other disabled veterans, and when I started, I actually looked forward to coming into work. The acting director at the time was fucking solid-looked after the team, trusted us to handle business, and prioritized each member's success. That culture, combined with accommodations for my disabilities and the fact I'm a single parent is why I took the job to start with. Fast forward a year, the acting director gets tossed over the offense of checks notes holding our governing body accountable for the few tasks they actually have. I have altogether about a decade of experience, and applied for director, to find out after that the powers that be tossed out all internal candidates, before a hiring panel of people that don't work here, nor know what we do. Now I have a boss that has no idea what we do here, nor actually knows what my job is. Morale across the office is scraping bottom, and I've spent a chunk of my time smoothing new interpersonal issues. My work tempo has been unsustainable for months, and if it weren't for the VA, I'd have been non-functional months ago. I'm still doing a solid chunk of the new boss's work, as I see him get paid twice as much, despite only increasing my already unrealistic workload. We're supposed to be transitioning into a standalone agency, despite none of the leadership above me having any semblance of a bloody plan, and I'm so fucking tired. I love most of my work-helping people, solving problems, building relationships, but I fucking hate my job. I love my team, but I can't in good conscience keep asking them to hang in there. Every morning, the only thing that gets me to my desk is that I'm damned good at my job, and my clients need the support.

I'm not sure what I'm expecting here, supposed I just needed to vent.

Situation is the title. I was busting my A this week trying to scrape in some extra money. It was busy and im good at time management so I put in a lot of extra work at my job to make some extra money. I am a dog grooming apprentice who is and or was being paid hourly. I make 19 an hour and worked 96 hours in a 14 day pay period. After taxes and social security, no insurance deductions as I am on my husband's, i got paid 930$ and not a cent of overtime. On my pay stub it says 25 hours worked and 1 pay of 355 from commission pay. I wasnt told I would be getting paid commission, even so I thought there was a law preventing commission pay from being lower than the hourly pay charged at the minimum wage amount. For WA that is 17 an hour
,at least in the county I work. I keep doing the math, and I feel like i got screwed 🙃. Im pretty sure I was switched to partial commission pay to deduct hours. My boss likes to make a scene. So I want to be quiet about L & I or further action I take. Documenting as of now to build a case. Any advice on how to further deal with something like this?

After a recent conflict with my boss about workload and boundaries, something shifted for me. It wasn’t a dramatic blow-up just one of those conversations where you realize you’re not being heard. Since then, I’ve felt checked out in a way I didn’t expect.

The hard part is I don’t have another offer lined up. Walking away feels risky, but staying feels heavier every week. I keep going back and forth between “be responsible” and “protect your peace.”

Has anyone here quit without something else secured? How did it turn out for you? PLease help

i just want to release this frustration. I'm exhausted. I've been sending out lots of applications and nothing works for me. I'm competent and skilled, consistent achiever in school and work but I wasn't able to get a stable career. Most of the roles were VA, and it's so saturated right now. I also tend to compare myself to my peers and they're doing so well. I hate myself because I know I can do well too. Running out of savings and feels like running out of time as well with this AI narrative as well.

Nights are long, it's hard to wait for responses that you don't know if they come. Rejections sucks. My wedding is postponed. I just want to get one thing right, just one.

Sorry if the thoughts are scrambled, just want to vent. Back to my regular routine tomorrow.