Category: Antiwork

I'm not a native English speaker, so it could be hard to get my ideas across very precisely. I wanted to start by giving you all a little introduction of myself: I always loved learning at school, I would even give up on going out with my friends, thus I am a bit awkward socially. It's not that I have no friends at all, I do and they're great, but they're also all (or most of them at least) talking about starting a summer job to earn some money. We're all 18/19 (Born in 2004) and we all did some “work” before (either help somebody or take part in some competitions with money prizes). Thanks to my love to learn maths and sciences (particularly physics) I want to go to uni and study applied maths. They're also trying to motivate me, which is great, but they will almost never study…

TL;DR: multinational company, 8 year tenure, I'm working in US office where the team is just me and my manger. Asked to relocate to another state, team manager denied because “it would be unfair to others in the global team”, without actually hearing my case or even looking into possible options or compromises. At my job, we have multiple offices around the world. The team I am working in has over a dozen people in Europe HQ, 2 people in Asia and here in USA state X it's just me and my direct manager, let's call him John. While it's just the two of us in the team, the office has hundreds of people working in other departments, but there is no interaction with them whatsoever. I have been working in this position for 8 years now. Team manager (the boss, let's call him Dave) is located in European office.…

Probably my favourite thing to do. I smile and nod and totally zone out on zoom meetings. The amount of meetings that I am in is ridiculous. Meetings to talk about the last meeting…action apathy…why is it that VC funded tech companies and start ups have such hard ons for continual, incessant meetings. All I can do is glaze over and go to my happy place in my mind and try to ignore the fact they've f—d the whole company over with our acquisition….

Hey all, this is the sub for this. Not a rant but a concerted and directed breakdown of this I've used Fiverr for a long time, as a buyer longer than a seller. I've never noticed how fucked it really is. I post orders for $50. now the buyer pays $52.75 and expects that much in work, while we are only receiving $40 after it's all said and done. I never knew they charge both parties until recently. my complaint isn't the amount but the buyer expects more work, and they did pay for it, but we're getting far less. Say I'm imagining myself at 20 / hr, this is the difference between 2 hours and 2 and a half hours. It creates a weird space because they want and expect more from us, but we aren't getting that much ​ and man, I've been one to ask for revisions,…

My employers just let go of their whole team at a neighboring branch. That team used to be who they had on reserve to fill in at my branch when I can’t make it to work. Now that this company has no backup employees to replace me if I leave, I’m using this as an opportunity to give them an ultimatum. Wish me luck

My wife will jokingly/seriously tell people she is a workaholic. She has done this for years, but I just attributed it to her meaning she has good work ethic and loves to work. Recently though, I had a realization that she hasn’t taken real time off in over a year. She’ll take time off, but still bring her laptop or phone along with whatever activity we’re doing. Road trip, cruise, weekend getaway, she has always worked on something or at the very least, answered questions from coworkers. She has been screwed over by bad employers in the past so I’m pretty surprised she’s this devout. I asked her this morning if she even realizes that she seems to over prioritize work (sometimes more than family time) and she got defensive saying she just wants our family to be comfortable. While I love that, it’s just so odd to me that…