Month: March 2022
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Calling out pro-work media framing
I just came across this Business Insider thread on Twitter about how workers are starting to just (gasp) work less rather than quitting, which it coins as “coasting culture.” Something about it bothered me, and eventually I realized it's that corporate America is framed as the solution to a nascent antiwork sensibility — rather than its cause. It says: The challenge for corporate America is to find a way to embrace this new professional mindset — the desire to do good work without striving to be a superstar, to prioritize life ahead of work. And: Coasting culture might not end up replacing hustle culture. But perhaps the two can find a way to coexist, even after the red-hot job market begins to cool. So, the problem that workers have very rationally awoken to the inherent indignity and meaninglessness of waged work over the course of the pandemic is presented only…
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Finally resigned
My team should have at least 30 people (as that's what most clients get told) but we had 5. No one wants to work for the firm as they pay very low salaries even for the Non-profit world. Now the team will have 3 people doing 30 people work and I will be joining a start-up early 10x of what I did at the firm. I want to do good for the world but that does not mean I will let my family skip a meal.
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DON’T LET THEM CRUSH YOU
I've been reading this subreddit for about a year and you guys have helped me a lot. Knowing that it wasn't my fault really helped me go through a 3-month anxiety period due to stress. So I was hoping my story can help some people realise their own value. There we go: I'm a Spanish guy from a little town and I arrived in Barcelona following the love of my life. I reached a job at a big American company based in the city, it was great for me because apart from some private lessons I used to give as a teacher I had barely any experience. I stayed there for about 1 year and became the “perfect worker”; took my breaks at the scheduled time, no delays when arriving, overperformed my colleagues… this led to getting offered a raise (nothing too crazy in salary but the responsibilities were different,…
I have been sitting on these thoughts for over a year and am finally ready to post about it. For context, I (thank God) no longer work at this company, but have been too traumatized and trying to get my life back to even contemplate processing everything that happened to me at this place. I worked at a big-name, fancy, trendy tech company you've definitely heard of for almost seven years, until I was let go last year. During that time I made a Big Tech salary of over $180k/year when I left. I say this not to brag, but to prove that while the money was obviously more than enough to live on/save, I would give it back if it meant not going through the mental anguish I suffered, which then turned into multiple physical problems that resulted in hospitalization several times. I also want to preface this story…