Category: Antiwork

Lurker here. A while ago I saw a post from a user who had automated their entire WFH job into a few minutes of work a week. I'm sure many of you are also aware of this post or maybe others like them. Now they did the coding for this themselves and are still providing the company they work for with the service they asked for, for the price they agreed. But what about the jobs done by people who don't have the ability to write their own code? I operate a small bespoke software engineering company, so what would the reasons be why I shouldn't take clients asking to automate their WFH jobs for a fee? I see this as fair game but have a feeling there is something I am missing. And I'm fairly confident the internet will tell me if I am.

When I moved to Canada, about 8 years ago, I was given a work permit to work at this IT company. They knew that for the next two years I didn’t had a choice but to work for them, or I would have to leave Canada. When I tell people what kind of work environment I had there, they can’t believe me. Btw the company is alive and kicking until this day. We were told to bring toilet paper from home. They wouldn’t buy it. Same thing for water. Tap or home. Not to mention tea or coffee. No AC in the summer – saving electricity (and there were some hot days there). There was a parking in the building. 50$ a month. They refused to pay it and preferred me running outside every 2 hours to move my car. They would make me come work weekends at least twice…

Edit: They have already reported the issue.

Little backstory, I have 12+ years of experience in software development, business management, and digital marketing. I used to work for a retail equipment distribution company – the business model was very simple, buy from liquidations at pennies on the dollar, refurbish, and sell it back to retailers. My job was to rebuild and expand the e-commerce side of things. My “boss” was a sales guy who had a very close relationship with the CEO. They created my position in order for my “boss” to get additional commissions off someone's hard work (me). This boss was the cheapest mofo i've seen in my life. We'd go to lunch and he'd have me paypal him ridiculous amounts like $5. Even while I increased sales by 600% I was never taken out to lunch on the company dime. I started on a $60k salary with commissions, ended up doing about $80k my…