Month: May 2022

I work in the private sector and had a boss who was always micromanaging me. He kept pushing me to take on more work and I always accepted because I am a hard working person. One day, my boss tried to talk to me about an altercation I had with another employee. I won't go into detail here but basically we got into an argument about politics. My boss told me I was not allowed to talk about stuff like that in the office, let alone attack another employee for their beliefs. I told him to his face that I will say what I want, I work hard every day and have earned the right to express myself. He said he would fire me if I didn't comply. I told him that he doesn't need to fire me, I quit. I got a new job the next week, doubling my…

Last year I graduated with a software engineering degree but it has been hard for me to find a job due to some personal issues. Well I’m back searching for jobs and I’m so sick and tired of all the stupid contractor firms taking advantage of desperate people like me. Recently I have been getting emails and call none stop from JUMP by Cognixia for an entry level position. The want to pay your state minimum wage for training, then $25 and hour for contract work (I think it was for IBM but I’m not 100% sure if I remembered correctly). Then in the emails they told me it would bee $50k salary for a position requiring bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. I got too many offers like that last year as well from other firms such as Tata Consultancy. I despise these firms, they take advantage of…

My coworker and I closed the shop 2 hours early to get drunk by the lake and enjoy the sunset. Management is not happy and I can expect a stern talking to at some point. Perhaps I’ll update! Need antiwork strength

Went to a work party last night. I work in corporate real estate. We spent 50k on this party. I got off the train at Kings Cross and there was a couple sleeping on cardboard outside. It crushed me inside and felt so unfair

I've been looking for a job for 9 months. I quit my first job due too unequal pay and bad management. I was paid less than the other people who worked there for less time than I was and people just started quitting, and I just decided that it would be easier to leave rather than wait to get sacked. I have had 2 interviews after applying to 50 jobs. Are companies standard's so high that they need someone with ACTUAL experience for what is considered by every rich asshat to be a skilless profession. That pays shit anyway. I'm not looking for a management position, I just want something to do. I don't need the money, I live with my mom and I have no ambitions, I'd probably give half my money to her anyway. I am an American looking for something to do.

I was getting a second job working in a lab for 25 hours a week. Pay was was okay. $15 is better than $8. I passed the interview with flying colors. The only issue with them is I'm double vaxxed and not triple vaxxed. I didn't want to get it because to me I believe with never having it and being in good health I didn't need 3. They told me if I didn't get it I'd have to sign a paper that stated if I got covid I wouldn't get covid pay. No problem I'll get the shot. And I did get the third shot. I sent them the new card. They told me the night before I started for 2 weeks I'd need to take covid tests before every shift. I said no problem because I'm not sick. So no worries. When I got there they told me…

During the interview the hiring manager asked what salary I wanted. I replied with the median salary for the job title based on Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data. He said that should be okay. When he made the job offer, it was 20% less than I asked for. He said that HR wouldn’t pay what I asked for because I hadn’t held the job title for the number of years on their pay grid. I turned down the HR offer. He said he might get them to bump up the offer. (I’m guessing less than 5% of their initial offer.) I said no. I didn’t tell him that the day before I had gotten an offer about 50% more than what I had asked for during the interview with him. My new gig not only paid more, it was a fun, no BS team.

We make posts about civil disobedience all the tome, we make these plans to do it, but it seems to never happen. With the internet, we have a bigger platform than ever to organize these events on, much better than our predecessors did. Yet, we can't seem do organize, strike, and do civil disobedience at the same level. What happened? There's over a million of us. We constantly talk a big talk, we bark, yet never bite. I see so many posts about how we need to stand up against the evil coroporations, and our government who's supporting them, even a whole sub based on one strike, but it never happens. The majority of us here are Americans, protest is something we've been good at since the founding of our country. Are we really too beaten down & supressed to even fight for what we believe in?