Antiwork

Listing after listing, despite having worked consistently for a few years, and you feel ineligible. Maybe it's the requirements? The “at least 10 years in x” line that many seem to have. I don't blame people for quitting and not finding anything else beforehand. What a horrid process.

I really love my job. I work in a unique field where it’s notoriously impossible to find an actual career, but I have found a company that trusts me to do my job in the way I see fit, with coworkers who I like and respect what I bring. All of this being said, a mixture of complacency and fear that there are dozens of applicants who would love my job, has caused me to let something slip. I haven’t received a boost to my compensation since I started working here. This is where antiwork came in. You guys reminded me that I offer a lot to my company, that I have grown and improved in my role, and that every year I work without a raise, they are effectively giving me a pay cut. So I approached them. I asked for a nearly 20% raise. Had to jump through…

Pretty much just what the title says. I earn about 14k per year and would need to be earning 57.5k just to cover the costs of term time childcare. How in the hell am I supposed to make it work without devoting my entire existence to work and never seeing my family? I'm having very mixed feelings about the whole career vs kids thing. On the one hand, I don't want to work my life away. On the other, I want some financial independence. On the other other hand, I find it difficult to deal with the feelings of failure over not being some kind of #girlboss superwoman. I feel like the decision is already made for me on financial grounds, but even if I did have the power to make a choice, any choice would be wrong. Just don't know how the hell these things are supposed to work…

I know this isn’t totally anti-work, but it’s definitely mostly anti-work and completely anti-boss. So about six months ago I started a new job after a brief hiatus. I’m a server so I rely heavily on tips. The new job I started had a tip pool (which I’m usually very against). The kicker was that the owner and the manager were also in the tip pool. I brought it up a few times about how it was unethical and actually illegal, but I was brushed off. One day I worked super duper hard and walked away with a very unfair cut of the tips. The next day I came in with a seething letter calling out the boss and quit. On my way home I called the state labor department to file a claim. After a few updates, I hadn’t heard from them since probably December. I figured it was…