Month: April 2022

Hi everyone, I'm a long time lurker, first time poster, but I need this today. First things first. I'm a R&D Mechanical Engineer in an Electronics company. I'm the ONLY Mechanical Engineer in this company and because of that almost every project comes to my hands at some point. Despite my official job being R&D Mechanical Engineer, I am also a Product Owner, and the guy which does all quality control protocols for production despite the company having a quality department (headed by the CEO's wife), and I produce critical products for big clients personally because the CEO says he sleeps better with that. In terms of jobs related to my job title, I've made projects from scratch ranging from smart cow boluses for lifestock datarecording, to telecomunication equipments and ventilators during covid. And I love my job, if I didn't I think I would have gone crazy with the…

Rant incoming I’m 18 and work full time as a checkout operator our store is in a small town and people keep quitting unsurprisingly because management hates their staff. I started 10 weeks ago in those 10 weeks I have taken on extra shifts offered to cover people been asked to lie to someone by my company to help the company and done three peoples jobs at once for the pay of one. I have “called in sick” once where I was vomiting from food poisoning the only other day off I had was a medical appointment that I had warned them of weeks prior. The other day a customer called my boss to complain about me and my boss berated me in front of my coworker and a customer which made me cry and my lovely supervisor had to send me to the bathroom to calm down because I…

Been working in information technology for almost 12 years now, systems engineering, implementation engineering, cloud engineering, whatever the fuck was asked of me I've killed myself to learn and implement. ​ I relocated over covid because I've been working remotely for over 4 years now and I couldn't stand living in a HCOL area, so I moved to a LCOL area with the idea that I will always be able to find work, companies need talent and I can do the work. I apply myself, I certify, I do whatever is asked of me. Fucking 24/7/365 for no extra pay, no bonuses, no whatever the fuck. ​ Go on the LinkedIn to look for jobs, jobs state fully remote, looking for mid-senior level systems engineers. I apply, they get back to me telling me I have to comfortable with hybrid or I have to live in a specific area (always…

I’m a big proponent of this sub, universal basic income, nationalized healthcare… but I keep finding myself struggling with talking about it in real life. Several times lately, other people have shared their struggles with me and I just didn’t know wtf to do. For example, at a beauty store, some clerks were talking about how they only make $11/hr. They didn’t say this to me directly, but they were talking somewhat loudly with each other about how they will have to work until they die. One was working even with a severe health issue. I wanted to write down the address for r/antiwork and also give them my email address so we could talk more about it, but I kind of froze. It’s not like I can personally pay them a living wage, so what’s the point? What can I do that isn’t just talk? What do I even…