Category: Antiwork

A very expensive software was purchased and dropped in my lap; when I asked what the expectations are for this software, I got this title as an answer. The software is for a very different field than I work in, when we have departments already for this field, but my boss had their sights set on getting it. And yet this “make sure we get our moneys worth, and maybe a published paper out of it ” is all they can tell me they want done with it. I posted about this before and some advised that maybe my boss was looking to expand my skill set, but now I’ve been told to figure out how it’s valuable to us

I am tired of working and it has only been 7 years post college. The first 4 years were spent at several ad agencies in New York where upon being hired I was asked to simply learn something like “Python” or “R” over the course of a week despite having no dev experience and the position only asking for Excel proficiency. After adding these skills to my resumé (as well as the demonstrable working experience), I took another job as a contracted “research analyst” with no benefits at a start up that turned out to be yet another underpaid developer gig. Some 5 months into the position I was the last person on my team left and after another 6 months of 60-70hr weeks later, I single-handedly built the reporting platform and API used by everyone in the company and it wasn’t until I had another job offer that they…

…one of them is the fucking CEOs daughter interning for the summer. Worked there for 6 months. Yesterday morning out of fucking nowhere my boss called me and said “my services were no longer needed”. i’m technically a contract employee so legally they can do it with no notice. Idk what to do now, applied to over 300 jobs before i got this one, feels like no one even looks at the applications. I can’t believe I’m all of a sudden back at stage 1. The worst part is I was finally getting really comfortable there. I am a very anxious person, especially socially, takes me a while to get fully fully comfortable with people. I was finally feeling truly like friends with my coworkers (i was the youngest too so it took a bit to not feel like a clueless kid in the office) Like on one hand, fuck…

This is in Indiana. I couldn’t believe it when I was told this. Two 10 minute breaks with no lunch over 8 hours for $15 an hour. This business has around 10 factories throughout the US, at the one I’m at I’d say around 80% of the people that work there are Latin American and most speak very broken English. I have no issue with that and am only saying because it seems like they do what they do because they know they won’t be reported by the majority of there workers. I believe it’s illegal anyways. I thought you had to have a reasonable amount of time to eat your lunch by law. I’m just looking for suggestions on things I might be able to do to improve the break situation because other than that it’s a decent place to work.

All 48 hours will do is be a minor inconvenience. Take back the power by withholding the labor, and you'll poison the IPO.

Note: although recent news stories caused me to remember this incident, it has nothing to do with the recent news stories and I am not making a political comment. This happened 40 years ago. Years back I worked at a government contractor. Management was poor there, and my group had just lost out on a big contract. Although I was only a junior staffer (and was treated like one) during my yearly review my bosses blamed that contract loss squarely on me – because I had worked on that project for another company previously (and despite they had ignored my suggestions while preparing our bid). So I had given a two week notice. I had several unfinished projects, so I made a folder for each one that contained all of the pertinent information and placed them in my filing cabinet. This included projects that actually were the responsibilities of coworkers,…

Been applying to a bunch of jobs and have not heard anything back. Afraid I’ve been black listed by a former employer since I have it on my resume.