Category: Antiwork

I had no choice but to withdraw my application. It's really frustrating that employers/organizations have not reviewed their old-fashioned hiring processes. Even though, there is a labor shortage in the market with the Great Resignation going on, still corporations insist to follow a very long and stressful procedures to choose their candidates. I am a Sales Executive with more than 10 years in Inside Sales & Accounts Management. Recently I have been applying for some positions in reputable US IT organisations. I joined the Great Resignation from the last year and I thought that the HR attitude towards experienced employees will change with the difficulties in finding the right talents this period….Yet, the same “B*****t” of a long hiring process with at least three interviews, each session with a decision maker. A very complex and tiring hiring process…I found my self under the obligation to withdraw my own application when…

A day or two ago someone (I believe a Swede) posted a question, basically asking why we in the US don’t revolt more aggressively against working conditions. At one point in the post, OP mentioned passingly something to the effect of “life SUCKS here for other reasons”, referring to their home country of Sweden. Would love to get some perspectives from this community. Wondering if people can share what sucks about living in countries like Sweden. I’ve heard taxes make buying things like cars prohibitively expensive, for example. i presume working conditions are better? I wonder what exactly that person was referring to… OP if you see this, would love to get your thoughts!! What other things have people experienced? in what ways is life/work better or particularly worse than in the US? note: I’m not sure if I use the term democratic socialist exactly correctly, hoping my point/question is…

Hey all, I don’t normally ever post at all but this particular incident has just fueled me enough to rant about it somewhere. A little context, my place of work is a novelty store mixed smoke shop and is quite popular in my area, there’s a lot of other locations in my state and it’s only getting bigger. The CEO, and the managers all love telling their employees that they should treat this job as a career and the usual capitalistic BS that all retail pushes on their employees, even though we make $10 per hour. There is technically commission, which they call our “bonus”, which, I asked what the rate was to which my boss literally said “it’s a percentage”. Which I figured out is about 1.5% sales, for employees only, bosses make way higher. They even limit us, sales don’t go under our name unless it’s about less…

Just had to sit through a 3 hour mandatory training night after a full shift to hear about how great my company is, there amazing values and there pledge for a sustainable future…. I get paid minimum wage.

So I'm hopefully going into the trades soon, I have many friends in skilled trades who smoke weed or used to, weed is 100 percent legal for recreational use in canada and I have never run into any issues with testing myself, I had an interview today and the interviewer said that she spoke to someone who worked 7 days on 7 days off, on his off days he smokes weed as is his right, he came back after his 7 days off and they tested him randomly, he tested positive for weed of course because it can stay in ur system for weeks. Of course he wasn't actually high at work or anything, but he still was suspended until he tests negative, took him 9 weeks without pay to test negative and he was finally allowed back. Has anyone else in canada or anywhere where weed is legal for…