Author: Olivia

Not sure if this is truly anti-work but I’m going to share here regardless. Let me set the stage. My dad has been in the hospital due to a sudden, onset, scary medical condition. Thankfully he should make a full recovery, but I was at the hospital until 8pm last night. For work, I’m based on the west coast of the United States at a large engineering company. I was working with a colleague in Dubai on an issue literally 3 full months ago, and I thought nothing would come of it. Yesterday (Tuesday) my colleague emails me back saying the customer wants to talk more, and asks if Thursday morning at 6am would be okay to chat. I agreed, I knew it had to be early because of the time difference. At 8pm last night when I was exhausted leaving the hospital, he apparently set up the call for…

Constantly in my office computer tasks are pawned off by the leadership team to the lowest paid young guys. Apparently “not growing up with technology” is a valid excuse to be wholly incompetent at your job. Just today (my day off) I was asked by the administrative assistant to remove the password from a protected PDF. This type of work isn’t my job, I am hired to do construction labor. I kindly sent her a link to a tutorial on how to remove a password from a document. Minutes later she calls me insisting that I take the password off and calling me insubordinate. Handling PDFs / administration is not in my job description. I still haven’t done it. It shouldn’t take 5 emails to take a password off of a PDF. There are super computers capable of this task in front of you and in your pocket, but you…

just a small rant over my insignificant problems It has been the longest 3 hours and I still have almost 6 to go. My head is killing me, I can't keep my eyes open, my body is so sore – I have an assignment I need to finish but it hurts to concentrate. I started a new medication yesterday and would just really like to be at home coping with this extreme first day fatigue. But I can't since I only have just under 15 hours of PTO currently accrued. No sick time. Just PTO. And I can't use those 14.98 hours since I'm saving them for a trip next month. A concert. But my college friends live in that city so I wanted to take a couple days and spend a long weekend there. So even though I feel like death and am getting nothing accomplished, I'll continue to…

…because I'm relatively new to this job. Because I have already missed too many days because this cold/flu season has been an absolute bitch. Because I want my boss to not hate me (I know she'll never like me). Because I need this job to survive. Because I'm scared. At least I know I can come here and pretend to be an anti-work radical. But I'm really just part of the problem. Sigh.