Category: Antiwork

I read a lot of the posts you all put up and it shocks the hell out of me. Keep quitting and know your worth. Stay sexy and don’t get underpaid for the time you’re giving up out of your life.️

So to make a long story short, I start a new job very soon, it's a job that I haven't applied for but have simply been offered it through various contacts, and it is only a 6 month contract. Supposedly, the manager who hired me has received my resume and cover letter, we've spoken over the phone too, along with my soon-to-be direct in line managers. Everyone seems on board with things, it's more of a technical role than I'm used to (I'm trade based and now going into an office supporting field staff + other activities), I was told the pay would be good, everything is sweet. Well I got an official letter of offer yesterday, completed all the necessary paperwork online and sent it off, then got super surprised at the larger than expected pay (no complaints, but it did send off alarm bells). I decided to look…

My department's old boss left in December. He was the best, but he couldn't handle the CEO and I never understood why, he just always complained about him. Anyways, we started looking for a new boss and told the CEO what we were looking for. Someone with experience in creating new business branches, because we had a concept for a new business branch that was pretty lucrative. We were motivated to put the work in, if we had the right person (aka someone with expertise). The CEO let us write the job announcement and had us invite people for interviews. Had them hand in assignments. One candidate looked particularly fitting. She had it all, everything we wanted. After interviewing the last candidate, my CEO who was there for the interviews told us that he had already decided on a different person. Somebody from a different department who he described as…

Just to clarify, I don't detest my job. However, this really angers me. I work in a corporate job. All my calls are video calls because we have offices all over. If I go back to the office, I am being asked to do video calls, from the office. I'm already starting to update my resume, because this is bonkers. Anyone else hate this?

Fuck that I say. The genie is out the bottle..people are fed up with traditional work culture. Even with the pandemic largely cooling down I get the sense that people don't want to go back to office work. Why? To have some middle management dickhead constantly breathing down your neck looking for reasons to be a dickhead, shitty/abusive coworkers, the commute to and from, etc. people's attitudes towards work is shifting and frankly most people would rather be at home if they can get the job done either way, so there really shouldn't be an issue. Fuck these elites just wanting to control every aspect of our lives.