Category: Antiwork

Background: Working at Vermont Information Processing for the past 3-4 years. Software Engineer 3 and great relationships with my coworkers, top performer, etc. This morning around 10AM me and a few coworkers had the idea to create a form that would feed into a spreadsheet so that developers could (if they wanted to – anonymously) post their salaries in order to be transparent in the development department. Within an hour, my gmail account was disabled, and shortly after that my macbook was remotely disabled. Completely in the dark with the only contact being texting a few coworkers who also had no idea what was going on. 30 minutes later, I received a call from the director of development with the following (paraphrased): “We think it's in everyone's best interest that the our relationship ends here. This is due to poor attitude in the past and a misalignment of goals going…

That a truck would hit her. But hey, I prayed for her I guess I just have to keep praying!

I always wanted to post my story, and figured now was a good time. About 8 years ago, 2014, my wife and I (20 years old) had our son in March. Knowing I would need to provide, I went job hunting. I settled on a chip factory that my mother-in-law had been at since the doors opened. I started as a packer, working my way to a cook by years end. I took on every responsibility I could, even going as far as being the trainer, even though I was essentially the newest cook. I would have to rewrite the entire training course and continually ask for my trainers pay, but that's not the main point of this story. Fast forward to 2019. I've put in 5 years at this point, I've given up some of my afternoons (normally a 6:30 AM to 3 PM, but OT went 6:30 AM…