Antiwork

A few years back, I accepted a position at what I thought was the “dream” job. It was in my niche specialty, in the town my husband and I wanted to move too, and it paid better than any other job in be ever had. We moved seven hours away and started our new lives. At first I loved it. I loved the work, my coworkers, and the community. But it eventually became clear that my boss was on a different realm of existence then everyone else (it was a team of less than 10 people). Looking back, there were so many red flags that I missed because I was young and naive. My work load kept slowly increasing and since my job description was so vague, I felt like I couldn’t say anything. My boss couldn’t communicate her needs and would get annoyed if I asked questions. She bad…

לעבוד (pronounced Lah-ahvod) Whoever is employed by a company and works for them is also in a way…worshipping them. I don't know about you but that says quite a lot and I hate it.

I went paranoid after quitting because I thought I won’t find work for the same money again. 2 weeks later I started my work-from-home job. No more standing around for 9 hours shift while my knees ankles and muscles ache like hell. No more hearing bullshit about how “Corporate” has a plan for me which probably would have never come to fruition. Sure I’m getting the same money and not more but now I can work this job wearing nothing but my boxer shorts and ripping fat clouds on my vape all the while making money. There’s always something better out there. Pardon my french but FUCK retail.

My wife currently works for a mortage company in Michigan that has a problem with retaining employee's, especially in the IT department. So much so they thought that offering employee's a $40,000usd forgivable loan would be a great way to keep(trap) employee's. This loan is also a contract that binds you to 3 years of service. After the 3 years are up the loan is forgiven. After the 3 years, the $40k loan is added to your salary/check to tax purposes. Which they will also offer an additional 1 year/10k loan to pay for said taxes. If you leave before the 3 years are up you have to pay the loan back in full plus interest. If you are fired you have to pay it back, since we are an at will state, they can let you go for no reason. They can also just decide to terminate the contract…

I work for a municipal utility, in an affluent town that has roughly 400 employees. We got an email a few months ago that said all employees in the utilities department would be getting a 5-10% cost of living raise and anyone hired within the last year would be bumped up to 50k per year. A few weeks ago the department manager called people into his office one by one to tell us what our raise would be. That alone was already fishy. All of my coworkers and I, not being chumps, immediately discussed what our raises were and found that people who had been there the least amount of time got between a 10-15% raise whereas people who had been there longer and already made more money got a 5% raise. And anyone who already made above a certain pay grade received no raise at all. Don't get me…

I have been doing sales/cold calling for quite some time and desperately want to get out of it. The whole idea of us being a meritocracy is bullshit. I make about 50-70 calls a day/300 calls a week and any time I do have a good week, I feel like it's timing and luck in the sense that I caught someone at the right time where they actually needed our services. Makes me wonder why cold calling exists in 2022. That being said, I've had some interviews here and there but sometimes when I get out of work, I get too tired to work out, play video games, or apply for new jobs. Like I have a lot of movies, vinyl, video games, and a bass but many times I'm just too mentally exhausted to even use them. I know this is something I need to work on but the…

Hi all. Something just happened to me at work and I need advice. I work in IT at a construction company in Illinois. I was hired as a hybrid-employee whom would be in the office full-time for training. I just had my quarterly check-in and I was informed that my position would now be required to be in the office full-time. My manager knew I would be pissed as we had talked before, at length, about getting me to be full-time remote like she is. Apparently, this change was decided upon late last week and and went into effect today. I want to walk out but I can’t as I don’t have another job lined up and a family to feed. My boss is giving me a day to “decompress” (which doesn’t mean I get work off, it just means no meetings bc she wants me to calm down so…

That’s $3,500 every two weeks and $7,000 every month if she works 5 days a week (and has the clients to do so). Im also assuming most of this is tax free: If the maid was to work 8 hours a day that would be double. Not bad for having your own business not working for a boss. Edit: this is in the San Francisco area where price of living is insane.