Category: Antiwork

So after I was hired by my company a month ago, they told me that they would start interviewing people and that anyone currently within our circle who can find a viable candidate would be rewarded a $3,000 bonus. My first thought would be to help poach some former coworkers that I had a good relationship with from a previous job with a toxic boss. But recently our receptionist told me that even though the company was still open to interviews, they're not currently looking to hire more people. They're simply holding interviews to “test the waters”. I thought to myself this place is really trying to waste other people's time. A part of me is slightly offended because I knew what it was like to struggle after interview after interview, getting rejections and while hearing the trending buzzword “nobody wants to work anymore”. Now that I have a job…

For employee appreciation day my work brought in both breakfast and lunch. Bagels and muffins for breakfast, but the muffins ran out pretty fast. Come lunch time they bring in pizza, 5 boxes for around 100 people. Only half even got one slice, while the rest just came into the break room and left immediately. We were told to expect pizza for lunch so most everyone didn't have anything else prepared. Some of the purchasing people ordered more, so everyone did get fed. Afterwards I overheard a conversation that next time, their main solution is do just tell the pizza place to cut smaller slices. Lots of appreciation today lol.

Seriously, if there was a Regus Pattoff School of Management – sign me up. Followed by Leadership and Interpersonal Behaviour training by Hans Landa. Sign me up.

I don't know why it took me so long to realize it, but the phrase “net worth,” is another tragic, screaming example of what's wrong with our society. Many will correctly point out that it's a descriptive economic term. But think about it. Without the implied idea that it means *economic* worth, these words quite literally describe the value of a human being. And this read of those words is reinforced every day by America's deification of the rich. And interestingly, in contrast to most parts of our system which are designed to extract greater labor for lower cost, this one ends up costing us our self-esteem. To even remotely suggest or imply that our net worth can be expressed in dollars is beyond grotesque, and a vivid example of the horrors of late stage capitalism.