Category: Antiwork

I'm just a guy with a family and I just want to be happy. My wife and I are both looking for new jobs. She had a breakdown at her high level med exec job and refused to continue. She found out that she was being paid 10.5k less than her female counterpart – who is under her and who doesn't do even close to a good job and is basically the golden child of one of the other execs. My wife is Hispanic and really believes that the toxicity she encountered in her role was a result of her ethnicity and her age. She was constantly ignored, placed out of the projects, side stepped, and given everybody else's work. She was working 70+ hours a week doing all of the other executive work and fixing all the issues. The company is filled with only white people and absolutely can't…

I work as a water technician for a small company and do usually and install a day. First let’s start off that I was lied too in my interview(shocker) about a whole bunch of things and told “we are all family here” so fast forward to a month ago I’m going on an install for some training with a guy who said he wasn’t feeling the best and it was flu season so he thought it was bronchitis he says he gets it a lot. All though i didn’t know at the time my the owner/boss knew he was sicker than that and he had been getting covid test and didn’t tell anyone of us since they are buddies. Two days later bam! I get covid and pretty bad and my other boss got it too from him. Both of us were out for a month I though i was…

I’m a certified MA and I can’t even find a job. I make more money delivering pizzas(around 4K a month)than testing people for COVID. I’m tired of people on Reddit and mainstream news saying there’s a shortage of workers but no one is willing to hire or train you.

This week is my last week of my 3-week notice. I like odd numbers and was leaving in the middle of a huge project, so didn’t want to screw over my co-workers. Anyway, today I was on-site at one of the locations the Parent Company owns, and the manager there pulled me aside and said something that just hit different. The reason why it hit is because this specific manager is one of the most beloved by everyone in the parent company, when a new location opens he’s the one they send and trust to get things operational, train the staff, and he gets along with everyone. Like when I say he’s loved its not just because of his skills, but his personality. He has little to no enemies, is a great dude. So this is how the conversation went. “So this is your last week?” “Yeah.” “Good for you…

This mornings first conversation with my store manager lead to him asking me if I was aware that the VP expects us here 15 minutes early every day. That’s what professionals should do. That is what will be expected of me. Sorry bud, I’ll be there with just enough time to spare to make it to the time clock and not be more than four minutes after my schedule punch time… cause disciplinary actions don’t start til minute 5, per the handbook.

I know we shouldn’t have to, but damn. If you politicians can be bought and sold, can we start a go fund me and raise millions of dollars to pay congress to give us universal healthcare and student loan forgiveness? Just humor me for a bit. How much would we theoretically need to raise? We would need enough to buy 218 house of reps and enough for 26 senators. Also, Pelosi and Mitch are gonna need more than rest of congress. I don’t care to hear it will never happen you idiot. I guess I’m asking if we the people could even raise enough to buy congress for particular initiatives? Edit: Let’s start a super pac for the plebs, hire competent people to get it going, get crowd funded lobbyist in Washington, and let see if we can get someone like AOC to help with details.

So I have been applying for jobs since January and two weeks ago I got pretty far with several. One rejected me for “not knowing where I want to move with my career”. Tbh I find this a really weird reason but w/e. So I had two companies left that were serious contenders. One company had a really weird procedure where I negotiated salary before ever having an interview, they offered me €3500 p/m with pretty awesome secondaries (36 days per year vacation paid). I already mentioned to them i was at least expecting €4000 but we decided to talk anyway. In the mean time the other company was also interested in me and when the recruiter asked what I used to earn i lied and said €4000, 4 hours later they offered me €4200 and I accepted this offer. Then I informed the first company that I will not…