Same. I had to stop because of them.

I won’t be forced to work 6 days again and actually a good 3 days off so I can recharge for once.

At the end of the day, as long as there’s two people left on the planet, someones gonna want someone dead.

-Sniper, Team Fortress 2

Came here to say something similar. Currently hating life and fantasizing how I’d quit my job and burn this bridge

At one of my old jobs I remember getting a 9.2 out of 10 on a performance report. When they called me in for a meeting I was thinking I was getting a pat on the back. Nope. It was “you could’ve done better”. That was the day I learned to stop trying and just say fuck it at any job since then.

They. Do. Not. Care. So if I’m going to be treated the same regardless if I put in 110% or 50%, then why bother?

Yes. I once was using an old laptop for travel and didn’t care if it got lost. It hadn’t been updated years but I got a nasty virus from visiting Spotify once that embedded itself into the tcp/ip stack. Not that I cared much for the laptop but it was a wakeup call that ads contain viruses. I’ve ran adblockers before that incident on my main computers but since it was old I didn’t I have everything up to date. Since then I’ve made sure to install ublock origin on any computer I touch. Even friends and family with their permission.

I could write an essay on why I block ads but the other comments sum it up pretty well.