I never thought I'd be on a subrredit like this. I'm not antiwork per say, I'm just against abusing workers and overworking them to the point where they feel stressed out and borderline suicidal. Not saying I'm on that stage yet but I feel like I'm almost there.
A little bit of background:
I'm not from USA. I'm from the Eastern part of Africa, a small country called Seychelles and I'm currently working as a Junior Journalist. I had the appetite the first time I joined, fire within me. After I got a better understanding of the toxic (I hate using this work because I feel like it's being overused) work environment. Eventually the fire died out and I left. Unemployed and not making money, I wanted to upgrade to a PS5 badly, so I went back to the company.
I was semi-honest with them, saying right now it's all about the money, when in fact I planned to make just enough and leave again. The thing is, the workload was reduced significantly when I joined back and I thought that this was finally the job for me.
Little did I know that around 2 weeks later, the workload began to mount up again. Before we had to meet a quota of 3 articles per day with a feature (2500) word article every two-three weeks. The thing is, in my country, it's bloody hard to find a fucking news story every single day. Currently, the quota is 2 articles a day, with a feature every week. And it would be easy if it was the same thing but each feature is a different category.
The office is ran by hypocritical editors who give news to their favorite journalists and create the classic “rules for thee but not for me.”
We have a weekend rotation so that each worker gets the weekend off, however, now there is a new rule that dictates that we have to produce an extra article during the week before you get your weekend off. So what the fuck is the point of having the weekend off than?
Anyways, the fact that I've been driven to posting on here means that I've hit rock bottom. I hate my job. I want to leave but finding another job, especially with my qualifications is bloody difficult. (Finished A-Levels but didn't go University)
I hate the fact that we live in a world were people just shrug their shoulders and say the generic “that's life” or “it is what it is.” No it isn't. Why do you think we've had a record high suicide rate in the country?
If they were paying me around 15k, I wouldn't care. Hell I would be the first out of bed in the morning. But I only get paid 10k. (Seychelles Rupees).
Sorry about the rant.