Category: Antiwork

I know that houses can be VERY expensive in America, don't take me wrong. In fact, the real estate market has been incredibly unfair to a lot of people the last 5 years, but I do have a question: Why, comparatively, are houses in America twice as big as houses in Europe for the same price, in a lot of cases? Seems to me that there's a lot of 300-400-500 sqm houses in America, while 300+ sqm houses literally are a rarity where I live (France). In fact, for most of us, 200+ “habitable” sqm (where you can live, sorf of, so not including the garage, the cave…) is 100% considered as a big house, and you'll very frequently find them at prices comprised between 500k – 5 million euros depending on where you live if they're nice houses. Why the difference? nb: I obviously need to mention that I'm…

A company wants to hire me but they want to do training during a shadowing program that I am the only candidate that has to complete. There is no official offer until I complete training and the work they want me to do. “PERSON’S NAME still has her own tasks to complete so I envision the day being comprised of some training on a topic, followed by time for you to continue working on a task within the topic that you were training on.” Um. No. Cute idea but I’m not an official employee, I’m not training or working until I get an offer.

So I applied to work from 6pm to 6am because my gfs dad has to get ready to go to work at 6:30am me and my gf applied and told the hiring manager why we needed those times and she said it wouldn't be a problem so we worked two weeks and I made a friend an older guy nicknamed “T” so we work for about 2-3 weeks then we are told there is a new manager above the whole night shift and he seemed alright until a week in me and my gf were leaving but as we were exiting the door the new manager asked us where we were going we said “home” he said “um I don't think so everyone leaves at seven” I explained we have talked to the hiring manager as well as the other managers and he said “that doesn't matter im the manager…

I need to temporarily (1-2 years max) find a job that will take me 24 or max 28 hours per week due to personal reasons. My skills are in cloud/platform engineering, kubernetes, linux, bash, ansible, python, golang, etc… I refuse to touch DBA positions or anything where I have to myself write C, C++, C#, or Java. I have a resume with half a decades experience on it. Any ideas what are some opportunities that can leave me with a job on my resume and pay appropriate to my experience (not a place that wants to milk me because they think they can get away with it), while being a smaller commitment through the week? For note, this is regarding Europe, not US, but I expect the advice might be applicable all around. I hope this question helps others consider this as an option too 🙂

Maybe some hard truths. I will only talk to my own experience, which is big corporate. People are often the largest cost, or at least a major one. Broadly speaking, people are either a cost or a producer. If you are cost, you are just part of the cost of doing business. Your pay will be repressed as much as possible and your output extraction maximised. You are disposable and ultimately have no value. Brad is a floor worker at a big box store. He’s great at his job and well liked by all. He serves customers with a smile and often drives extra sales. Everyone like Brad and he’s never taken a sick day. Brad is a cost and ultimately has no value to the corporation. To be used and abused as needs be. Then there are producers, people who make money either directly through sales activities or some…