I encountered a Boomer today that couldn’t get his jaw off the floor when I told him I had WFH for 2+ years and was never going back to an office. What a sad life he must have lived slaving away with people that won’t remember him 6 months after the fact while his home was largely empty all day and just a place to come rest.
Just an observation. I got a job now, they're the second best paying on this business, and my current colleagues that used to work at the best paying place said no amount of money could pay for the abuse you had to endure. Boss is a good guy! . We ask for improvements, he does them. If we get sick, he trusts our judgement, and offers to help, like w/ meds. We've felt overworked, he made a few changes, it got better. He's there working among us every day. But there's no way around this: the pay isn't much, and what he does actually should be the norm. So I'm switching careers, got a better offer, my life will improve tremendously, and I still feel bad for leaving, because my actual boss is decent. Things are so terrible, that one dude being fair gets me all emotional. Is this Stockholm…
I work in a long term care facility and a few of my coworkers have stated that they were told by management that if they do not complete ongoing online trainings by the end of the month, that their pay will be withheld. Isn't this illegal?
I've just gone back to work at a seasonal tourism job (tour guide on a bus). The owner of the company has always been notoriously stingy when it comes to wages (though the tips are good, and he now pays about $3 an hour above the state minimum). I really enjoy the job, so that's why I keep going back. After being shut down for 2 years due to Covid, they've restarted operations. We also need professional drivers to drive the buses, and drivers have been increasingly difficult to find. Rather than offer more money, the owner will simply not run tours on days we don't have drivers. So, instead of paying a few extra dollars an hour, he prefers to shut the operation down completely, leaving the rest of us workers in the lurch. I've actually started looking for other jobs, because instead of the 5 days a week…
For the 2nd time in 3 years. Reduction in Force. It didn't matter that I did a good job. It didn't matter that I was the only Instructional Designer in the whole company. It just doesn't matter what you do, really. I know this, have been around the block a time or two. Nothing matters, you'll be gone the moment someone feels you should be. So after the feeling of wanting to go to sleep and not wake up again passes, I get to start the dehumanizing job hunt again in the HOPES I can get FT (not contract, my preference) at a decent place and WFH because I really don't want to work in an office again. I hate that I feel so horrible. Have been in bed crying all day because I hate this so much.
For a number of years I worked a meaningless job at a community college in the south that was famous for fraud and embezzlement by the higher ups. For a while I honestly enjoyed everything about my job until the college system reorganized and I was moved to a new position where my duties involved sitting at a desk and watching Netflix. That was glorious for a few weeks until the crippling depression over wasting my life a meaningless job kicked in. Be careful what you wish for. I automated most of my job functions so really all I had to do was show up everyday and not jump out the window or hang myself in the supply closet. One day I was looking at my time sheet and noticed that there were two columns. One column showed my total hours work and a different column show my “calculated hours…
Sure, some of what some of the fraggles did could be considered work. I mean, Uncle Traveling Matt was an international journalist, Red was an athlete or an aerobics instructor, Boober liked to cook, and so on. None of it was necessary, though. They could just hang around and do whatever. The act of staying alive and healthy was never jeopardized by not having a “job”. I believe Jim Henson originally meant the show to be for an adult counterculture audience and it seems that antiwork is about as counterculture as we can get these days. The entire world, as far as I can see, is trapped within the culture of constant work to achieve absolutely nothing but allowing the constant work culture to persist. Antiwork is not about being lazy, not about stealing the productivity of others, but living in harmony with eachother and with nature, just like the…
My wife has worked her whole life in the Army Corp of Engineers. A DoD government position. She has been successful and worked her way up in grades over the years. But that's the thing, it's about grades. Everyone knows everyone else's grades and the pay for each is published, common knowledge. Everyone she works with knows exactly what she makes and vice versa. The USACE or DoD haven't collapsed because of it. It's illegal to stifle employees rights to talk about pay.