Work depression. Working 12hr shifts on a rotational schedule days & nights 7a-7p or 7p-7a. It is mentally hard but not the worst part. The worst part is beyond my regular set schedule of working 14 days a month, every Thursday a mandatory overtime sheet comes out & you have to work it & you always get hit to work but you never know which day. You cant make plans outside of work on your off days bc you NEVER know if you have to work.
So I have an interview I guess with a talent manager from overseas, using a shitty third party online meeting site. why can’t they just use Facetime or Webex or a regular call to interview? why is the talent managers always overseas? I doubt they pay them worth anything, so fed up with this bullshit 2022 company workplace toxicity, two interviews in half a year and they gotta be super third party and jumping through hoops just to land an interview -,-
For the vast majority of us, work is intolerable that is made tolerable via various coping mechanisms. To a fortunate minority, it is tolerable. To an elect few, a minority within a minority, it is enjoyable. How did work, a key marker that once defined identity, become the bane of modern existence? In my view, work has to meet 3 criteria in order for it be fulfilling. Criteria 1: The work must be useful In his book “Bullshit Jobs” David Graeber argues that as many of 30% of all jobs within the economy were completely pointless and could be done away with. The pandemic demonstrated to us that this number was much higher. What makes work useful? When the worker can readily see how his labor benefits others in his immediate vicinity. The neighborhood tailor feels pride when he sees someone wearing that new shirt that he produced yesterday. The…
Whats the best fake symptom to call in sick for if you only want to take one day off and you don’t want them asking any questions? Im mainly worried about covid related questions but also still concerned about believability Edit: i went with digestive issues
I work in an IT field for a F500 company. I've bounced around companies every 5-10 years my whole career, and always doing something a bit different. I first learned to code in 6800 assembly language, and now I know how to hire programmers. Anyway two years ago I took a chance. We were coming up on that great fantasy called annual goal setting. The corporate mantra was certification. I wrote a lengthy email to my boss and their boss explaining that instead of getting another cert that I had no interest in, and would probably never use, that I would rather spend my time trying to share/mentor our gen z cohort in some of the skills like systems/critical thinking, and work on process improvement issues. Oh and I mentioned that is be retiring next year. I've also made it pretty clear that I'm not interested in working 50-60 hour…
I was a kid. I saw an ad for Johnny Appleseed and told him about it, to my everlasting shame. Johnny Appleseed was an exploitative company that would deliver to you dozens of printed ads and plastic bags to put them in. We would spend an evening organizing the ads, and inserting them into the bags. The next day, we'd go to the assigned neighborhood, take a few hundred each, and promise to meet back at lunch. We would go up to each door without a rabid dog and leave the hanger on the doorknob. We got one penny for each doorknob hanger. After a full day, we had 1200 houses, equaling $12.00. And we needed that money. $12.00 was a fucking godsend in those days. Hard times in Denver in 1977.