Antiwork

This happened many years ago but still a testament to a lot of similar firms. I work in the world of Staffing/Recruiting and my first job in the industry was with a very large, well-known firm that a lot of people in this business have likely started at or a firm similar to this one. I had already spent many years within B2B and relationship sales before having worked as a Capital Markets Broker so the transition to this role as a Client Account Manager was a fairly seamless transition. Right out the gate, the desk manager was a plastic smile, corporate puppet whose actual job was to look for reasons to fire people! The turnover here was neck-breaking and every week there was a new hire with a new fire so I stopped bothering to make friends with anyone. I had little children and a family to support so…

I'm 8 years post-grad and have had 5 corporate jobs. Every single company i worked for was broken in some way or another. I worked for an agency for 2 years. Earned a promotion by their “standards” but I got passed over because my manager vetoed it. She claimed i would be advancing before she did at the same point in her career…. This same agency was client-facing. They had me work a 100+ hour week and when I went to bill my hours to the client, they told me to cut my total in half so the client wouldn't think I was actually forced to work that much (even though I was..) I found out they were hiring new grads for less than they were paying me 2+ years in, so I found a new job. I worked at job #2 in the nonprofit / fundraising space for 2…

I feel like we're living something eerily close to that. The richest people in the world have the ability to provide the bare necessities for all of us. The power to help all of us just not suffer. Does it happen? When it's marketable. When there's a profit to be made from it. When there's face to save. These people are inhuman when you see how they talk about us. Where we are to them. I think about this almost every day. I need to stop. I'm ashamed it was allowed to get to this point…

I was recently investigated by the executives of the company I'm employed by. Their reason was that they didn't like my handling of a HR complaint that I dealt with. The complaint was handled but they didn't like not being included in every little thing I deal with because they're super paranoid and untrusting. So the execs started digging for dirt and handled it exceptionally badly just winging it the whole way and not following any procedures or policy. The investigation first attempted to gather evidence against me but in the end showed I handled the complaint well enough and the person that made the complaint was happy with the outcome. It was clear the review was an attempt to find wrong doing against me, which is fine really because I handle everything ethically, legally, and thoroughly by the book with lots of best practice thrown in there. However, the…