Category: Antiwork
Why hire when you can exploit?
Unless if you tell them that you have been consistently applying for jobs and you earned from casual gig work pre-pandemic?
What are your thoughts on NEETs?
Neet stands for No experience, education, or trade
No one wants to sell eggs anymore!
For about two decades I've been buying eggs for about $1 per dozen. Now, just in the last couple of years, there's no one selling $1/dozen eggs. I guess no one wants to sell eggs anymore. If we stopped giving farmers all these government handouts, they'd have an incentive to get off their butts and get back to work. /s
What I do: Natural gas compressor field service technician.
Stupid? maybe? scared, yes lmao. I found out they offered me 5-10k lower salary than what was reported for this company usually. Some local jobs for the same title also offered a little over $52k This has been eating away at me, The offer was 40k salary, Which is okay but I can do better. So i emailed them this morning, asking to discuss a salary increase via zoom, or coming into the office. They just hired me a week ago and I start next week. Is this “unprofessional” maybe but I don’t care. Hopefully I don’t get fired. Wish me luck! Edit: spelling, i’m on my phone.
So, I’m back in the job market…
I told you guys how I worked a day that I'd normally be working but didn't have to because I was told it was a training day and no one said otherwise. Here's the thing, last week they told us we'd have to come into the office 3 days out of 5 starting today. I told them that was impossible for me because Covid Is still really, really bad here. I have multiple heart defects, one of which also limits my lung capacity, and I have scarring on my lungs from having regular pneumonia 3 times as a child. Which means I'd be super likely to wind up in the hospital or worse if I got Covid. I didn't explain all the details because frankly it's none of their business, but I do have a letter from my cardiologist explaining basically a cliff notes version of my medical history and…