Month: March 2022

Friday afternoon during the school run, I had a call from a recruiter who saw my profile on Seek, liked it, and wanted my CV for a position they want to fill. They were upfront about the pay rate, and I’m not going to lie – it’s amazing! I said to them to email the details, and I’ll have a think about it. I spent the weekend entertaining my kiddo, as it was pouring rain and I’m a single parent. So when the daughter is with me, I have to do everything myself. I’m not complaining, just setting the scene as a “I wasn’t thinking about a job I didn’t seek out” kind of thing. 10:18am Monday, I have a call from the recruiter asking why I haven’t responded to their email. I said something about still getting stuff together, and ended the call. Today (Tuesday) at 12:13pm I received…

I have quite a few assets and investments, but I decided to take a job after being at home for 3 years and doing my own projects. My wife thought it would improve my mental health, get me energised and back into things in a larger way and whilst its WFH, feel I've totally lost my sense of purpose and mission. I thought that picking up some extra cash flow that I can put to work on my own projects would be an additive process, and stop me “spending” my own capital. But I feel rather dispassionate about the role/team and mission. It is a large traditional business where I am working in digital, but there is alot of detail. Previously I feel I had a more stressful role in start-ups but I felt I was “doing something”. Now I'm stuck in a very process oriented huge business performing a…

It's not just about big developers and renting office space. It has just as much to do with your commute and the tank+ of gas getting there.

I personally don’t care wether or not office workers have to go back or not but I do care about how there is now all the sudden talk about how ppl should be paid for commuting.. as If service workers haven’t been commuting and risking their safety this whole time. It just pushes the narrative that office workers and people who make more money are more important than lower wage employees doing service jobs.

So, I’ve been thinking of this, and I’m starting to formulate a theory. Hear me out here: Starting during the Clinton Administration, you began to see what I would call the Era of Deregulation. It began with things that didn’t seem like such a big deal, like media or banks. Starting roughly around 1999-2000, you saw that come to manufacturing. Since 2000, more than 50,000 factories have moved overseas. Not 50,000 jobs, 50,000 FACTORIES. Now, stay with me here, because this is the part I think is important: In his State Of The Union address last week, Joe Biden Insisted that people needed to start going back to working in buildings, that ….. what was it? We needed to return to “our beautiful downtowns”, or whatever the shit? I think that’s because work from home has exposed the dirty little secret of our economy: that most of what we do…

I’ve been a longtime fan of this subreddit as it aligns a lot with my personal beliefs (especially that folks deserve a living wage even if they’re just cleaning streets). I need advice from y’all though, as I’m not exactly the most assertive person. I just started this job at a bank and I hate it. I thought it was what I wanted; it very much is not. I’m under a 6mo probation period. How do I get terminated while under this probation period because frankly this bank was so boring and disorganized that I won’t be stepping foot in there again. Any suggestions would be helpful! I love seeing other people tell their crap bosses to stick it, but I’ve never done that myself. Any help is appreciated! TL;DR I want out of my boring bank job after a single day of being bored to tears there. I’m under…