Category: Antiwork

I am a software engineer currently interviewing with a few different companies and I am expecting to receive an offer for more than $140k. I don't say this as a brag, but it is relevant to the point I am about to make. I am super excited for this offer to come in because it will allow me to do the following things: Buy a house Retire before 60 Save for my kids future Afford healthcare Take a vacation every once in a while Invest in my hobbies and interests I have just been thinking about how amazing all of these different things are and how much this is going to positively impact my life and then I realized… WTF? Shouldn't these things just be baseline factors of life for anyone who works? I am a high earner and all of the sudden I can finally afford to do basic…

My bfs job is at a union company that makes vaccines and they suspect someone took two weeks when they lied and said they had Covid symptoms. This might’ve not been the first time. His job paid the workers for a few days without them having to use much pto time while they were out with Covid. So now there’s a possibility due to incidents like the above that anyone who catches Covid and has to stay home for a bit won’t get paid by the company, they are only able to use pto time which doesn’t accrue for them. They also didn’t screen anyone before they came in or have them get tested and the workers have been caught surprised when they learn of people being out with Covid as they don’t learn until later. Now due to the potential hooky incidents and not for anyones safety it seems,…

My coworker is upset I was injured because I was doing something I wasn't trained to do. I didn't get injured because of lack of training or anything I just tripped. I hate the guilt you get when getting hurt. How dare I report a significant injury (just fell wrong) obtained while doing a dangerous chemical charge. Don't even want to go back to work and deal with the guilt and talk behind my back.

So I stopped doing the jobs and they didn't get done so the manager dragged us all into the staff room, shouted a lot and said if they didn't get done we'd all get a write up. Lol what.