Month: March 2022

I’m a quality engineer for medical devices. I started out on a team of 4 people and now it’s just me. At this point they have had 6 weeks to hire another quality engineer. Because I was the only one, I asked for a title promotion and a plan to undergo training / certification. That was denied because I don’t have experience and they are looking to hire someone with 8+ years of QE experience. This morning I find out they finally found someone! Great, I’m excited to learn from them, have them start on projects and so on. I generally get along with coworkers – it’s management that has failed me. I still keep in touch with all my old coworkers too. I go to HR for a different matter and we start talking about the new person. I get a hold of their resume and….. no engineering degree….…

I have 1 job that is very easy. I honestly do barely any work hard work, it’s just stuff I enjoy and I do it from home so it’s great. I like the job and I like my co-workers. The first job pays $60k annually, which for the major city I live in is just barely enough to get by. I mean I can pay all my bills and have just under $500 left over each month for other expenses, which isn’t great but it is manageable. I got a second job recently that’s also working from home and I’m doing them simultaneously. It’s only been a week but this second job is very different than what I expected. My first job is in marketing and I’m creating a lot of fun creative stuff but this second job is just like a middle man for the marketing team, I’m just…

Hi everyone, I’m currently in a dilemma here. I reneged an offer back a couple months ago for another opportunity. The company that I reneged the offer sent out equipments and I had shipped it back to them the same day I got it. They are letting me know now that they never received the equipments even though it has been 3 months. I had called the shipping company and the package seems to be lost and nowhere to be found. That company threatened to call my current company for my personal information to file a police report. Should I let my boss know about this and what do y’all think I should do next?

I spent a few days applying for a remote working job that sounded pretty good. I fixed my CV, had a cover letter prepared, emailed over a mock role play test, uploaded my Wifi speeds, completed a typing test, had two interviews and then noticed on the job offer that webcams were needed for the training. I queried this to recruitment and they insisted that webcams have to be on so that the trainer can make sure everyone is paying attention. I told them that a microphone and chat function on Teams should surely be enough to ‘prove’ I’m there but they said if I didn’t have a webcam then I wouldn’t allowed to join the training until I did. The job is a basic data entry role paying minimum wage. They also wouldn’t let me finish 15 minutes early to attend the dentist incase I ‘missed too much’. I…

Hey everyone, David Graeber, the late and brilliant Yale anthropologist who helped influence the Occupy Movement, published a book in 2018 called Bullshit Jobs. I want to bring this book to your attention. Although I have only just started, this book has already equipped me with ideas and vocabulary about our current work culture that I had felt before but had failed to conceptually manifest. I believe this book can be a valuable addition to anti-work's marketplace of ideas and extend the arc of our vision. I hope the moderators do not consider this a “low effort” post; for what this post may lack in content to create a constructive dialogue, I believe, it makes up for in earnestness. In the beginning, he points our how easily attainable a 15-hour work week could have been had it not been for our odd dynamics towards labor ethics in addition to corporate…

Remote work is less costly for workers. Remote work is better for the environment. Remote makes work possible for more people. Remote work eliminates urban sprawl. Remote work reinvigorates the communities we live in. Remote work lowers cost of living. Remote work is work-life balance in action. Remote work invests in communication infrastructure. Remote work is here to stay. I will leave any job that tries to force me back. If your job can be effectively performed from wherever you are, I hope you'll hold this line with me. #NoGoingBack

With the current news cycle stuck on stopping WFH and prominent politicians like Biden and NYC Mayor pushing for people to return to the office we need our own narrative. Right now the jest of theirs is based on the economy of Urban Centers. Urban centers have been hurt by the mass exodus and need people to return to help stimulate that economy. Our(ProWFH) narrative needs to be about how what they are proposing will hurt small town America, small business and so on. What they are pushing towards is essentially a redistribution of wealth and spending. Transitioning spending from local city centers to major urban areas. They're focused on jobs and revenue in urban centers but what about the jobs and revenue in surrounding towns. If money is being spent in place A then it isn't being spent in place B. The money is going to be spent. Just…

I went to a very famous art school in the US. Each class had a 4 absence policy – once you had a 5th absence, you either had to drop the class, or automatically failed. There were NO excused absences. I know of people who got hit by a bus on the way to class and still crawled their way there – a friend of mine had to miss her mom's funeral because she couldn't afford to stay in school another quarter. I was hospitalized and missed a few classes, and had to retake an entire quarter. This was to “prepare us for the working world”. What sucks is that we all thought this was totally normal for the longest time!! When I was an RA at the school (I quit after a few months), I remember telling my residents that this was a GOOD thing because it prepared us…