Category: Antiwork
Today, I handed in my 3 week's notice to the job that made me so stressed I got health problems. I'll be working at a job where they hired me right at the end of my interview, for significantly higher pay and a higher role. Everyone in my life is congratulating me. I've been crying since I got home. The curriculum I developed at my soon-to-be-ex job was something I poured my heart and soul into. I love nature, I loved getting to manage a garden, I love teaching kids about the world around them! I loved getting to play a big role in the community. I loved the kids. My one manager said it was “inevitable that someone as talented as [me]” would want to leave the organization in search of bigger things. But it really wasn't. I could've done this job forever. It's been the stress and disorganization…
After the drama of the last week or so, my wife and I decide to do the little we can to make a point of what the antiwork movement is, at least to us, and explain our reasoning, along with my story as someone who was indoctrinated to think of “the dream job” where I would work well beyond my paid hours in the name of an “ideal”. we go through concepts like UBI and put the foundations down as to what hopefully can be a mission that makes sense, and someone who I suspect didn't look beyond the title decides that this article about workers “entitlements” is the answer to our struggles. cue eye-roll. Employee entitlements are new challenge that employers must deal with https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Employee-entitlements-are-new-challenge-that-16752132.php
https://www.thecolonyvabeach.com/ Select Quotes: ” it is not humanly possible for 3 people to get the building cleaned ” ” nothing seems to motivate people to work in this NEW NORMAL-POST COVID ENVIRONMENT ” ” PLEASE CLEAN UNITS 100% ON DEPARTURE ” also, they are not offering guests any sort of discount for doing all the work for them. LOL, what a joke.
(Long text alert) Before the pandemic, we lived in the age of seeking “professional fulfillment”, with the media selling the idea of “pursuing a career doing what you love”, because then “you won't work a day in your life”. So, we went to great lengths to achieve such a realization, even if it meant sacrificing our health and personal life. In fact, this sacrifice was well accepted by the corporate world, for obvious reasons. It was “cool” to be a workaholic. If the workaholic was getting sicker and sicker, physically and emotionally, it didn't matter. In fact, the aversion to work has always existed. Therefore, employers and the system needed to instill ideas of professional fulfillment in people, as well as the fear of being poor and homeless, so that they would remain tame, working more and more, and generating billions in profits for the system, in the promise of…