Category: Antiwork

I have been dealing with many issues relating to work as of late. For starters, any time I have to wake up for work, I get out of bed and have to coach myself into even going, and half the time I don’t go due to this overwhelming feeling of anxiety and dread about having to go in the first place. I am at a loss with what I can do to fix my problem, like many of you I just don’t believe in work as a construct, at least in the way that we have let it become. I find no enjoyment in what I can produce and no enjoyment in making money doing something I abhor. I keep telling myself that all I need is a change in attitude but no matter what, it always feels useless. While this is more or less a rant, I’d like to…

I rejoined my current employer around 18 months ago. There were a number of pressing problems that I have resolved single-handedly (we literally got to experience being able to tell a consultant we weren't going to pay their invoice because they did not solve the problem they were engaged to remedy; I did) and, on top of that, I have been doing two employees worth of work whilst getting paid like the junior guy. I can deal with the workload, I just refuse to allow the current situation, where my work pays me a single, junior level salary whilst getting exceptional outcomes, to continue. I set my linkedin to “open to work” yesterday and have an interview tomorrow. The bad thing is, my direct manager wants me to stay and is fighting to get me a payrise. He's been fighting for half a year though, he just doesnt understand that…

My boss is a nice person but she is one of those people who values her career very highly. To her credit, she works very hard and is very enthusiastic. But she is often disappointed by the low work ethic of people she hires. And she just “doesn't get” why workers don't care anymore. I understand her frustration, maybe, if this was still 1985. But the thing is… we have nothing. We don't have hope for owning a home or retiring or even at this point for living in an apartment alone. Why should someone we hire for 17$ an hour even care? What is the point? To work hard at a job that can only maybe afford you a crappy apartment with 3 other roommates and no hope of a future? We are surviving, not thriving. Living through the collapse of this empire and hyper-capitalism is emotionally devastating tbh.

A few years ago, I worked for a hyper-toxic finance director. She forced us to work evenings by sending us Outlook invitations to “book our evenings” without asking us if it was convenient or paying us overtime, she was always making nasty comments about everyone and she was always telling us that we were not grateful to her. In short, at one point we went to report the situation to human resources. The girl from human resources told us that we shouldn't expect the situation to change just for us, that the company maybe was not made for us. We were very angry with this indifferent answer from this girl from human resources who left at 4pm every night, so we expressed to the VP of finance directly that he was going to lose a part of his finance team. The VP of Finance had the HR girl come into…

Go through high school and learn about things that are irrelevant to the grand scheme of life, become conditioned and programmed to take on debt at an early age through college loans, sit on that debt and watch it pile up and multiply as you try to find a job that gets you out of the paycheck to paycheck cycle, pay your taxes and get little to nothing in return, but don't you dare question anything. After all, this is the American dream.

Sorry for the weird title as there’s a rule that doesn’t allow the world “title” in the title but I think that applies to a different context. Just looking for some advice on things to say to my boss today regarding this topic. This is my first job out of college and first non restaurant job. Some context is that my current job title is data entry specialist and I was hired in June last year but I’ve been doing the job of a data analyst for months. I work for a supplement manufacturer. I’ve taken time to learn the a lot of the skills a data analysts has and have self taught everything while on the job through YouTube. I’ve completely changed the way my company reports their production numbers with an interactive report using PowerBI that my boss, area supervisors and the ceo look at. I’ve setup a…