Antiwork

I'm the lead engineer for a major tech product at the company I currently work for. I'm also a young WOC and active in the local tech community. And so when marketing started looking for employees to write stories about for a big special marketing campaign, they reached out to me. Normally I'd accept something like this, but I'm actually planning on leaving the company in a few months after I finish a project I'm working on because my career is really starting to stall at this place. I've become a big fish in a small pond that is rapidly becoming a puddle. Haven't told anyone my plans to leave yet because it's too soon. And it's not like I have another job lined up as an excuse either, I just want to take a short break before I go somewhere better. So… should I do it or not? I'm…

they dont have a skill set to easily find another job, that job is literally their life line. unless its for violence or they are causing conflict in the work place it should be illegal to fire, for something as simple as attendance or they're not working hard enough

Title. I'm sick of the grind. Waking up at 5 and being here till 5. I'm sick of unpaid breaks, and long meetings, not being able to cook my lunches, something I didn't even know I wanted until I could work from home. I'm a good writer. And I've been able to make a fair amount of money doing it on my extremely limited time. The only thing holding me back, THE ONLY THING, is that I can't just up and leave. I've set a goal to become a writer full time and have been slowly building up to it, but it's a slow and painful burn, and I'm sick of it. I can't help to question more and more, Why have we allowed our society to become like this?

Just a little story I thought you all might enjoy. The owner wasn't a terrible person or anything, I don't hate him, I just did what I had to do. While I was going to college I had a part time job at a gas station sometime around 2007 or so. I got about 30 hours per week. The job wasn't difficult, I brought in my school work and got some studying done during work time which the owner/manager was fine with so long as I got my duties done. There were usually two of us there in the evenings until about 10:00 and then one person on for two hours by themself to close. There were probably about two other capable employees there and about four that were fine, but not capable/willing to perform their duties properly. I found that as time went on, I became the de facto…

After being made aware that I was not in fact entitled to breaks throughout my day, I began to research, to the best of my ability, the break laws for my state and those around me. Many if not all states, at least those around my home, only require a single 30 minute break after a full 6 hour shift, with no small breaks being written into law at all. How is this legal in 2022? You're telling me I can work myself to the bone in grueling heat, carrying rocks and lumber, and my only legal guarantee if a 30 minute break, just enough to provide my body with the basic necessities to make it through the last few hours of the day? The basic human decency law should be a 10 minute break every hour and a paid 30-60 minute lunch. Because let's face it, even if we're…

I've been looking for a new job for about two months. I finally found one that offered health care. Most employers in my industry offer the worst insurance for exorbitant rates that come out your paycheck. Employer pays all premiums for health/dental/eye and I have a lot of medical issues and I need this. I put in my notice and I have three different people from there trying to convince me to stay. Despite all their begging, they haven't offered a single cent more hourly. Despite having a vacation request in for months, they haven't approved it. So, my house manager sent me the new schedule she's thinking of implementing. It takes away 20 hours of my overtime and puts me on shifts that aren't in my availability. THIS is supposed to get me to stay, in guess. Less money, worse schedule, and no benefits.

“We’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running” = we have little to no onboarding and you are expected to perform close to perfect as soon as you join. There’s no room for error. “We have an exciting fast paced environment” = you will be constantly waterhosed in the face with too much to do in little time. There’s nothing exciting about it. “We’re looking for a rockstar candidate who comes to work everyday loving what they do” = we want someone with exceptional skills, an amazing attitude, and undying loyalty who is hopefully also fine being underpaid for their value “We offer free bananas and potato chips in our kitchen!” = Since our company perks suck, we try to entice you with cheap snacks Also if the job description has a giant list of what they want from a candidate but not much about what they as…