Category: Antiwork

Dumb question, I know, but I need some solace. I have an MS in my field and have about 6 years OTJ experience in a wide range from my field. While I'm human and make mistakes, I feel like in my recent endeavors I've had much less focus because of micromanagement from the last few jobs I've been hired for. In the last year I've had a few jobs and have had trouble staying at one place because I refuse to be treated like shit. In your experience does micromanagement cause you to make more errors while doing your job? Or am I the problem?

The French have HIT THE STREETS! If they get away with pushing 2 more years into the retirement age, they’ll get away with more. I love to see the pushback. London has followed by protesting the cost of living in mass quantities. I live in the United States and feel hopeless a lot of the time. But I can’t help but feel inspired and hopeful. It feels like a worldly revolution is upon us. I wish we’d follow their lead. But man, does that feel like a glitter of some kind of hope. The world is fed up with the 1%.

I want to vent about the violence teachers experience at work. Earlier this week there were several simultaneous fights at my school and adults were hurt. A student brought a weapon to the middle school with the intent of murdering another student. I've never witnessed anything like it and am just dead inside. Today, two teachers were shot at a high school where many of my former students attend. It was their third lockdown this year. School is cancelled for the rest of the week. It pisses me off that my school has provided no relief for teachers or students after an attempted murder. They should have cancelled school for a day so the adults could process. The student with the weapon will be gone from school for less than two weeks. Everything is just fucked up right now. We all know that gun and school violence is here to…

I found out my last day will be in a couple months. The response was prompted through questions about the companies ability to provide future work. Apparently they don’t have any work lined up after my current project wraps. What’s my best way to protect myself? I have two concerns: they’ll manufacture a way to fire me before then or they’ll try to avoid paying unemployment after my last day. What can I do to protect myself? Is it worth sending an email documenting the conversation?

And you're forced to kind of defend it, but on the inside you wanna go “dude, fuck this place too but I can't because I'm underpaid n shit”