Category: Antiwork

I'm not a native speaker, so bear with me here. Just wanted to share something that is happening right now at my company. If you have any advice, feel free to comment. Started at the company after uni (MSC in technical engineering) in October 2019 as executive assistant. In August 2021 they promoted me and made me project manager (funny side story: at first they didnt want to give me a raise right in August, as i already got one in January. They wanted me to work as project manager, but i wouldnt get my “full” pay until January 2022). I insisted and got the raise right away. Also, we agreed that i would still do some old assistant stuff until October 2021 when my replacement/successor would have started. Long story short, they first postponed the start to April 2022, and last week i got notified that the replacement wouldnt…

I have become increasingly left-leaning of late and was reflecting on some of the jobs I've held in the past, when I saw that a current “work-study” at a pole dance studio I used to workstudy at filed a class action lawsuit with 3 other workstudies. It was a 12 month agreement where we worked 2 8-hr shifts a week in exchange for unlimited free classes (nobody in my cohort took nearly as many classes as I did, and I had a fulltime job worked 42 hrs a week). The owner of the studio was the worst manager I've ever seen. I have a very fulfilling and well-paying job now, but it just feels very nice to know that she has this to deal with now. We probably won't see any money out of it, but I don't care.

Let's face it. Most of the work we do could easily be done in 20-25 hours a week or less. We spend to much of our lives working. A lot of it is wasted time.

The title really says it all. I was told he’d get me something for all the hard work I had done and now he’s not returning my emails.