Month: May 2022

I have a masters in social work and work as a school social worker and make good money. Sometimes I think to myself that I wish I could do something else because I don’t know if I want to do this for my entire life but I think that I’m stuck and have to because I have bills and a mortgage and soon want children and I can’t give up 100k a year and great insurance and great benefits and a pension, but when I get in trouble at work or have to deal with a ridiculous boss and feel down about myself I realize that I don’t need to stay there. I can work elsewhere and do something different, however it’ll be with a major pay cut. I can get up, find another job and leave. It feels liberating knowing that but it scares the shit out of me…

I think everyone’s had coworkers like that, rather than get their wages up they would prefer to just bring you down. It’s a crab in a barrel mentality it’s a little unnerving

If you ever get called for a meeting, and your boss/HR says “you won't need a union rep”, you need a union rep.

My previous employer put me to move code from one PC to another using a stick. I have done that for a period until he accepted that it is useless and he is an idiot. What was your experience with repetitive, boring tasks?