Month: October 2022

Glassdoor and blunt honesty are your two best friends!

I told my boss I was resigning and that I'd work until the end of the pay period because they refused to assign tasks that challenge me. The day before the end of the pay period boss and boss' boss video call me and boss' boss fires me. I hung up the call as soon as he said I was terminated and was moving to the lecture phase. I had a consulting job and 2 first interviews lined up the following day and 2 job offers with a $20k raise before I was eligible to collect unemployment. I never thought I'd be part of the great resignation, but here I am and it seems to be working out well.

I currently work retail but one of my regulars works at home depot and told me I should apply because they’re offering more hours/pay. TL;DR I have never gone through a more unprofessional onboarding process to the point where I’m no longer interested in working for this company in the slightest. If you want more details keep reading: After my first interview I was told I would be contacted within 1-2 business days but instead they took over 2 weeks to schedule the 2nd interview. Then the 2nd interviewer didn’t show up to the webx call and when he eventually reached out to reschedule he missed the rescheduled one too, then said he was having tech issues and just offered me the job over the phone. After I did some online training I got an email telling me to come to the store for a 5hr training shift. When I…

It's about the amount of work we do as a society and as working-class people compared to the return that we receive back from it, both directly and through infrastructure and social programs. We can talk about how certain jobs deserve higher compensation for the amount of work they do or how much value they contribute to society as a whole – but that's an argument that could be made and is made endlessly. The true focus of antiwork should be to eliminate as much compulsory work as is reasonably possible; this would mean that all the products, services, and infrastructure that are required for modern life should be the primary focus of our labour outputs. But even that would not be enough given our current consumption and production habits; we need to build things to last longer, standardize hardware and software as much as possible, utilize automation to the…