Category: Antiwork

I was rejected and told that what I was receiving was fair compensation. If it were fair, I wouldn’t have had to apply for a second job that pays me more to do pretty much the same thing. There are people in my department who are new hires that worked a different area and kept their higher pay coming to us. I’m happy for them, but I’m mad that I’m making $2/hr less to train them. I was hoping they would at least raise my pay by $1 to be comparable to my second job, but they told me no. So… I’ve been applying for jobs on and off now counting on being an internal hire to help me out a little, but it hasn’t. How can I make my resume beat the AI for jobs I qualify for or at least go to the next stage?

Got fired from my last job which was sort of casual entertainment but had a pretty severe health hazard. Fired. For bringing up the hazard too much and refusing to basically just grin and bear it. Current job is basically secretarial work for an insane entrepreneur who moooost of the time is really nice, pays me well, lenient, easy work… But every now and then likes to take out their own personal frustrations on me, hurl personal insults at me, start arguments over nothing, and generally verbally and emotionally abuse me simply to re-assert their status. It actually 100% mirrors abuse I endured before in non business relationship and it’s really freaky. Normally I would have quit by now but the pay:workload ratio is fantastic and, I don’t think I could get another job right now if I wanted to. I know because I’ve been trying. After the rage episodes,…

What excuses are coming up? On one side, companies like apple have said, “our offices are awesome, we’ve invested a lot into them. you must enjoy them”. Which is fair enough. But the excuse, “I didn’t hire you for remote work”, or “because I’m the boss and I say so” just don’t sit right with me. So I want to know, what excuses are being thrown around? For context, I was listening to a podcast by 99% invisible on the future of office design and tons of people are leaving companies that are forcing people back to the office.

Pay is way above the cost of living in my town, we get catered lunches 3 days a week (MWF that we order ahead of time and individual meals are labeled with our names to ensure we each get what we wanted), the break areas are always full of free snacks/drinks, we are encouraged to take care of our physical and mental health as well as our financial wellbeing with free resources provided for us, the company pays for 80% of our insurance (health/vision/dental with eligibility for enrollment starting on day 1), and we have 14 paid holidays (aside from our personal PTO/sick days) every year. In addition to all these perks, I really love my new boss. She treats me with respect, asks for my input, and listens when I talk. She sincerely asks me how I’m doing/adjusting everyday (I moved over 1,000 miles for this job), and asks…