Category: Antiwork

I'm currently looking for a new job because my current one treats me bad. And holy hell, I hate all the pretentious bullshit around applying for a job so much. Just look at my CV to see if I can do the stuff you want to be done. Why do I have to write a whole ass overly formal letter were I tell you how great I am? Why do I have to add a very staged picture of myself? Why do I have to dress up in a way that I normaly wouldn't? I don't even work with customers so why does it matter how I look as long as I'm not straight up unkempt? You full well know that I don't dress and talk like that while doing my daily work so why expect it now?! And why the hell do I have to guess what salary you…

I'm in my third month at the company I joined, which has a three-month probation period allowing either me or the company to terminate the arrangement without cause. It's also when my retirement benefits will become active. I got an email stating my offer letter has been voided. “Offer Letter_MyName.docx has been voided for the following reason: Envelope has been deleted and was therefore automatically voided” Sounds like I’m getting let go? Edit: A close colleague of mine advised me that two of my team members were getting let go and another team member is “on the hot seat.” And I get this message next?

I love world building. I hate work. I want to write some stuff for world building while I'm at work. I also want to minimize my chances of getting caught doing this lol. My biggest issue is, I think, getting the information from my work computer to my personal computer/phone/accounts/whatever it may be. I doubt there's any software tracking what we're typing, as I can see that being a security risk. So I should be free to type my little heart out in a Sticky Note. But if I keep sending emails or messages to myself, someone may get suspicious. Any tips for this? Or just any advice in general for dicking around at work. Edit to add: I use Google Docs to store my world building stuff, if that makes any sort of difference. I also won't be looking anything up on my work computer/using the work WiFi. I…

This story takes place in winter of 2017. I (17M at the time) used to live with my family in the state of Hawaii, until spring of 2017 to move back to the state where most of my extended family was. At the time of the story I'd only ever held one job prior to moving. Since I had graduated high school, I wasn't in a huge rush to get a job. Up until the end of fall came around, and my parents brought up the idea of rent. So I began looking for a job. Eventually, I settled for working at Jack in The box. After about 2 months of working there, I received the schedule for the week, and saw that I had been scheduled for 9:00 to 5:00 on Christmas Day. Of course, I immediately called and said I couldn't make it, since this was my first…

Perhaps life in Iraq isn't as bleak as it may seem. The country provides its 5 million government employees with a total of 108 annual holidays, excluding weekends (Friday and Saturday). It's worth noting that the private sector doesn't adhere to the same holiday regulations.

So I’ve been at my job for almost 5 years, I’ve worked my way up, I worked my ass off, I remember even two years ago working overtime and not getting paid because our unit was under a lot of stress and a lot of transition.(I was doing my boss’s job and the jobs of three employees while also in grad school) I’m in a great position right now, but I just have no motivation. At this point I literally work maybe 7 hrs a week.. if that sometimes. Don’t get me wrong, there are weeks where I do a lot, but recently I’ve been doing the bare minimum, but from the outside looking in, it doesn’t seem like I’m doing the bare minimum, I’ve perfected, the “working hard” but I’m definitely hardly working, I think this also may have to do with how hard I used to work for…

There have been multiple instances at work recently where the bathrooms have been trashed. Someone punched a whole in the wall recently, as well as toilets overflowing, and paper towel all over the floor etc. Our management's response to this was to institute a bathroom pass. I now have to ask a manager for a bathroom pass and they go in and inspect the bathroom afterward. Honestly, i don't know the best solution for this but jesus christ, I wish I could get my dignity back.

Why do we have to be responsible for making sure we don't ruin work relationships? Why is it culturally OK to walk on egg shells to make sure we preserve relationships? Why can't we promote having meaningful relationships with anyone, not just the people who can “pass the vibe check?” Shouldn't we focus more on accountability, acceptance, and inclusion, rather than emotional management and conflict resolution? I feel like it's common and acceptable to judge other's superficially (like when they say “first impressions matter”) and trying to manage the conflicts and emotions caused by this is only trying to work around the fact that's superficial judging is a problem. Like for example, in the case of “gender pronouns” the problem isn't the idea of gender pronouns, or the emotions and conflicts it's causing. The problem is the quick judgements we are allowing ourselves to make about every aspect of the…

Just like the title says. I desperately need to vent about my distaste for my job. My partner absolutely refuses to listen to anything I say regarding anything so I unfortunately do not have the ability to vent anywhere else other than here. It's not necessarily that I dislike the work involved, I just hate how my unit treats me. I am the odd person out and I definitely hate it. I'm sitting here being treated unfairly and expected to just take it. I have a civil service job working for social services. My case load is seemingly double or more than what people in my same unit receive. On top of that, I am assigned all of the priority cases and it seems like nobody else is. And now get this. I am hybrid remote. On my in office days I am also expected to answer the phone, where…