Month: April 2022

Seriously, WHY DO WE EVEN WORK? It can't be the damn health benefits of a health care system since that would be only a tiny part. So why does society make it so difficult to just disengage from the grid and… Live like a monkey or something? Heck! Hunter gatherers spent much less time working than we did! It feels like most tribes in the world got absolutely screwed over by colonialism and capitalism taking advantage of them. So why do we, as humans, have to work? What is it on this god forsaken planet that tells me I have to keep working? I'm not even poor, I'm fairly upper middle class and I still feel all this is working and money slaving is… NONSENSE. Sorry, I just had to get this rant out.

I work in the design department at a big fancy global firm, and it's safe to say that we get treated like a bunch of low rats. I was just scrolling through my LinkedIn when I came across a picture of most of the people in my workplace at a big fancy event receiving awards on stage and the only person who went from my department was the head of design. And there were a bunch of people who didn't need to be there if I wasn't there, I finished my probation last week and I would say oh okay so maybe I'm just too new to be considered a part of the team but no, there's people in my department who's worked here for almost a decade and they weren't there either and it's just put a huge dent to my ego. We put in way more work and…

Posting to anti-work bc this is the philosophy I share. I got a job offer, 25k above my salary now. I might have extended the truth on my resume, saying I worked at my last job and not putting my current job. My last job was terrible but I got good experience, but I worked there for like 5 months but I put it as my current job on my resume. Now that I have an offer, they wanna do a background check. Idk if they will do previous employers or not. Any anti-work people had an issue like this?

I cannot find a quantity surveyor a remote position (site is in Atlanta Georgia) for $170k/year right now… I blame all of you! Of course I'm just kidding about the blame thing, but this really does go deep, it's more than just the jobs people don't want to do, there's pockets of skills demand out there like I've never seen!

To be 100% honest living this way sucks. Living to pay rent and no place wanting to give you A decent pay/full time/40hours a week. Going to job interviews and hearing “we’ll contact you within 48 hours” and never hearing from that company again. Doing 30 minute long assessments just feel like another name in a file. Getting told that you’re gonna be a shift manager but then on first day hearing from everyone that they only work about 15 hours a week. I’m so tired of living every single day not knowing where my next meal is coming from or even how I’m gonna pay rent this month because a company decided to randomly cut my hours. Honestly it’s caused me to be in a really deep depression because everyone else seems to be traveling and doing really really well and I can’t even pay my rent on time…

Hi! I’ve been lurking on this page for a while. I have been hesitant to post because I’ve read about backlash from employers who read this and I have no way of knowing if my current one does, but I am fairly easily identifiable by my profile. I decided in January that I am going to move from the Northeast US to the Midwest. My company has fully remote teams and those teams have members in other states, I am partly remote in the office 3 days and home 2. I reached out to my manager and asked if I could stay on. He wanted me to, and his superior also approved this decision but told him he had to kick it up to HR. This was in January. He emailed HR right away. A few weeks later he had followed up twice and finally gotten a response that they…

I work for a FAANG company and this week we’re getting our annual performance / comp info I was told I apparently negotiated well to come in on the very top of my pay band and because of that there’s 0 bump up this year and I’ll have to go for promotion to see any change. Okay fine I also asked what my company was going to do to fight inflation or how it factors into compensation Apparently it doesn’t and it bases what it pays people based on what other similar companies pay similar roles Sounds like to me all these companies could just get together and price fix these roles to avoid paying more and that this is quite bold for them to admit. Maybe I am ignorant? Just sounds like complete bullshit to me

So I worked minimum wage for a bit. The place I worked for was a coffee shop. There was a Christmas party that you had to pay to go to (I forget how much it costed) either way it was enough I didn't sign up. I was scheduled to work the day of the party because I didn't pay to go to it. Well only one other employee (he was 16 and new) was working with me. We had to take care of the the front and the drive-thru window by ourselves. We were still being timed for our service despite it only being us making all the drinks, food, serving, and running the register. We got so many angry customers complaining about how long it took. The worst part about it all? My manager sat in her office not helping at all watching stuff on her phone. Another thing,…