Category: Antiwork

I've done on average 55-hour-weeks in a demanging desktop job since December. I worked all day and all night on wednesday, did not sleep a minute yet did full eight hours the day after. I've sacrificed my social life, my hobbies, my sex life with my bf, and my physical fitness to do good in this job. I've not even reported all my hours to payroll, because I felt some tasks took me too much time to complete and it was my fault for not being fast enough, but I wanted to do them well and carefully anyway. And today I got told I've worked too slow and my managers suspect I'm being lazy and stealing company time. Is this worth suffering for 1 – 1,5 more years to get the CV points? It's a respected company and an alright position, which will be regarded well once i'll apply for…

Preparing mine, and I’m inbetween what to send. Professional, laying it all out there or subject : sorry – body : sorry for your loss, it’s me I quit.

Thoughts? I am a single man in his mid 20s.

I build some of the world best audio transducers. Today we had a company meeting. We were told the last month was the busiest ever in company history. We were told we all deserve a big thank you. I’ve been told by multiple people that my hard work is going noticed and people/engineers are coming to me and telling me they’ve heard how diligent I am. This is an extremely detailed job with tons of memorization. The highest quality is checked every step of the way. I get paid same as a fast food worker during record company profits. I have multiple degrees. I love this job except for the pay. But I’m definitely leaving soon if they don’t pay more.

I’m also assuming that the workers who leave are mostly in the upper half of the second tax bracket, or lower half of the third. I’m not really asking about the plausibility of the situation or about the fate of ex-pat workers. I’m interested in exploring what would happen to the US if it lost a sizable portion of these workers.