Category: Antiwork

Does anyone have any tips and tricks they’d be willing to share regarding Microsoft Teams and appearing online? My company sets all of its computers to sleep after 5 idle minutes.

I wish I could take the time to heal my mind but alas I need to work to maintain my health insurance needed to continue treatment. I began a new job in January, two months after hospitalizing myself because my mental health had declined so much during the pandemic. If I'm being honest, I'm only in it for insurance. My payment is 8 hours/day at a computer. I can't imagine that this is helpful for my recovery or treatment. I'm on the verge of tears because I just want to get better but I feel stuck. I don't even necessarily hate the work I'm doing. It is mentally engaging and the company is a benefit to my community. I simply wish that I lived in a society that allowed me to take time to heal from a disorder that has affected me to varying degrees since childhood. I feel like…

This may boil down to a rant, so take with a grain of salt if you don't care. For context, I am 24 years old, working in rural Michigan in a town of blue-collar factory workers and retirees. My job is retail auto parts sale and delivery, meaning when I am not at the counter, I am often on the road. The only vehicles we are provided for delivery are FWD hatchback Ford Focuses or Fiestas. I make 15$/hr, which isn't bad for the area, but not amazing pay when all my living conditions are still college town prices. Average workweek is 5 10-hour days, plus 5 hours every other weekend. Currently, we are getting hit with a winter storm. The news said 9-10 inches by the end of tomorrow, but the way things are going, it might be by the end of tonight. There are also 25mph winds. Schools…