Antiwork

I’m an architect, working for a pretty famous studio in my country, and because of that, I think I’m constantly justifying to myself that is worth it. Every single day I work overtime, I have a lot of different projects going on at the same time, the complexity and demands get bigger and the deadlines get smaller every day. The pressure is huge. Now we are moving to a new office space and they asked us to come to help organize the work stations. I got to the new place and everything was still being painted, somethings were under construction and the moving trucks were only starting to come. So me (a manager) and my staff had to spend the day carrying heavy boxes up and down, cleaning, helping to install cabinets and the place ended up far from being a workable office, because there were still many things to…

Those who commend work. – In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. Fundamentally, one now feels at the sight of work – one always means by work that hard industriousness from early till late – that such work is the best policeman, that it keeps everyone in bounds and can mightily hinder the development of reason, covetousness, desire for independence. For it uses up an extraordinary amount of nervous energy, which is thus denied to reflection, brooding, dreaming, worrying, loving, hating; it sets a small goal always in sight and guarantees easy and regular satisfactions. Thus a society in which there is continual hard work will have more security: and security is now worshipped as the supreme divinity. – And now! Horror! Precisely…

I inform my manager of my pregnancy by mail. No answer. 3 days later, I receive a mail of congratulations, followed by an invite to a meeting to talk about my performance and to do an evaluation. In the same mail. How to prepare ? Advice please.

This used to be my favorite job and I was so happy with what I was doing, and I was good at it. Lately the management changed and I feel like my new manager just cares about work and not people. I know other teammates are feeling it too but they don’t communicate that ( maybe that’s professionalism idk). For more context I told my manager I am trying to relocate with my fiancé overseas but until it realizes I’d stay with the team. I understand they stopped investing in me but I also started feeling their comments and behavior get a bit more indifferent, sometimes rude. Now my new manager is quite rude, and I had several encounters with them that I feel like they kept pushing me to do something without recognizing my limited capabilities or the complexity of the work. One time I got so frustrated in…

I’m in the US, so all people from all over are welcome, but the states, especially Ohio . About 80% if not more of our industry in the USAis owned by a handful of massive corporations. Just curious how much you love this so we can be better employees for them, ahem. We all have common links to these same big corporations nationwide. So we are neighbors from afar if you will.

In 2020 I received a windfall of around $100,000. I invested and set money aside to live on if I happened to lose my job. That same year I opened my own business, and in the end we had to shut down in 2022 because Covid destroyed our business model. I have money to live off of, but obviously I don't want to do that. I went back to a previous employer that had said a while ago “If you need a weekend thing or something park time I got you!”. I went there to get a weekend thing to accompany my freelance video editing, digital media, and streaming that I am primarily working on currently. I was met with “You can work 7 days a week, open availability right?”. It's funny how businesses 2 years ago were like “Nope can't give you 40 hrs a week.” and now that…

My boss is 5 feet away from me and can look and see what I'm doing or hear what I ask my coworkers. I forgot something simple and asked my coworker for help and my boss chuckled saying. “You shouldn't be asking that at this stage(I'm 2 months new)” well fuck you for me trying to ask for help!