Antiwork

I've been searching for healthcare jobs since I have phlebotomy experience. There seem to be a LOT of places hurting for staff right now, and I've been inundated on Indeed with inquiries from recruiters from various staffing companies. I got a weird looking one in my Indeed inbox that didn't list the pay, and I was already irritated, so I replied with some snark asking why pay wasn't listed. I absolutely never could have predicted what happened next. I got a few messages that didn't quite make sense, including one that mentioned not using BCC and there being a reply all thread. I thought this meant I had accidentally connected with multiple employees of the staffing company, so I made fun of them for having bad tech. Then, I realized. The people I was talking to aren't with the staffing company, they are OTHER APPLICANTS the company was spamming. And…

The level of control these micro managing freaks want to have over people is truly evil. Managing people's toilet breaks or telling them they can't take time off for funerals is psychologically evil. These people would have happily pushed their neighbors into concentration camps.

I disagreed with my boss this week – well actually I’ve been telling him I disagree about a project for the last couple of weeks, and have explained thoroughly why. But this week I wrote up the project and he wanted me to sign the submission, but I wouldn’t because I still thought it was a bad idea. I told him he needed to sign it. Following the final disagreement, my pay was docked for a day last week that I stayed home with my sick kid – even though I have the emails to prove I was working from home. I packed my shit. I’m not working for a place where I get retaliated against for disagreeing with the boss.

Studies show that workers working from home are more productive and adjusted. Studies show that we are content to work from home and have no need to return to the office. And we are SCREAMING FROM THE ROOFTOPS! We DO NOT need to return to the office. We are not less productive. In fact, we are more productive. We do NOT need to justify your real estate holdings. We do our jobs just fine, in our homes, working remotely, in our pajamas with our cats in our laps. You are never going to convince us that we would be more productive in the office for whatever bullshit reason you design. It's just not true. You can't convince us. Either we work from home or we find new employers. We are your top performers. We are the ones that make the company money, quarter after quarter. If we leave, you will…

they know they'll be paying at least double that for warehouse workers if they unionize. a workforce that huge would have any company on their knees with an organized strike.

I think most people that have done a degree then entered the job market for the same sector would agree they didn't really need all that education. Degrees and most qualifications really are just barriers for entry (possibly to show you can follow orders well?). What do you all think? sure it takes experience to be able to know 100% of a job and never run into issues but the vast majority of the daily grunt work of a job can be learned pretty well within a couple weeks with a good mentor right? Seems like in most jobs basic skills like communication, people skills, efficiency, applying logic and trial and error are waaay more important than any specific stuff you learn at university and years of experience don't guarantee much. Yet companies most often wont even consider people without whatever standard of qualification and experience they have deemed is…