Category: Antiwork

So I recently got my dream job. A work from home construction management job after working 10 years climbing cell towers for a living. I moved to a new area and bought my first house as well since I got a nice juicy raise. This move was directly for my job so that I could be closer to the market that I manage. After only one year of working here, a capital investment firm took control of the company and they are letting almost everyone go and switching to contractors for everything. We already sometimes have 2-5 layers of subcontractors for almost everything and it makes getting anything done a huge pain. One of our contractors also recently fell to their death unfortunately (not my market). But they’re saying they want to keep me on as a 1099 contractor and pay me via “milestones”. Which is when I reach certain…

I genuinely do enjoy my job in healthcare. But honestly it is prone to some despicable personalities. I’ve come to the realization you can do everything right, find the perfect job, and it will still get fucking destroyed by a new egotistical manager or some shit. You can fight it but in the end upper management will back them and leave you high and dry, they still don’t give a flying fuck about you or the fact that you actually do your job and save lives. Let’s just say that happened recently to me and honestly it’s just come to me in the grand scheme of things, at least hospital-wise, it will always be about money. If you’re not on that board of executives and upper management on salary, whatever specialty/department you are, nurse, sterile processing, EVS, reception, etc. None of their decisions will have those workers in mind. They…

I can't help the feeling of guilt, even though I'm genuinely sick. Like, it's ingrained into my brain when I really shouldn't give a shit. They laid off so many of us and I'm supposed to just continue working with a smile on my face? But no instead I feel bad for not coming into work, as if I've ever enjoyed being there. Damned if I do and damned if I don't.

I'm reposting this because I didn't know your only allowed to post text message screenshot on certain days

This happened a little over a year ago. This is a long story with a proper conclusion. The tl:dr is the title. I worked in a medical office and had a pretty big role. I was the only person in the office who knew how to do the paperwork for patients and who understood the idiosyncracies that made paperwork acceptable to the corporate machine that is medical insurance in the United States. (If anyone out there has had to fill out Prior Authorizations, Pre Authorizations, FMLA paperwork and write doctor's notes, etc. They know exactly what I'm talking about.) In addition to this I had a very good understanding of every aspect of the office and as a result I would always be the one to cover in each department when someone else called in or was on break or busied with another task. The issues started when we hired…

i've been toying with the idea of being self-employed and maybe if i make enough money to leave my current job, but everyone around me constantly says how horrible it is (and they've never been self-employed) and it does have a small effect on me. but all the people that tell me that don't see anything wrong with capitalism so i'm not very convinced. i am more inclined to believe someone who is/was self-employed and/or that understands how exploitative employers are. but you know what IS horrible? working minimum wage for someone that constantly complains how much money HE is “losing” to me, when i am literally one of the reasons why our department is making way more now. i do at least 50% of the work there and don't even get 10%. my employer and coworkers praise me but apparently that's all he's gonna do. we don't even have…

For the last six months I have been working for a small religious private school. They hired me on part-time as their Admissions/Enrollment Director. When I applied for the position back in November it was a full time job with the additional responsibilities of Development Director. At that time I had every intention of quitting my job if I got this new one. Well, they hired me on and told me they split the job in two (because “it was a lot of work”) and were only going to pay me half the salary ($20k). I told them upfront I wouldn’t be able to quit my regular job for only 20k but I was happy to work both my 3rd shift job and then this job after. They were thrilled. The first red flag was the first week. They had no one to train me on this job- not a…