Antiwork

I work in outdoor recreation/tourism, and the owner, like many owners, subsidizes my wages off the backs of his own customers aka if I don’t get tips I don’t make enough to live in my area. I can tell people are not planning on tipping when they make a big deal out of this being a ‘fun’ job. And yes, I do get to do the recreation too. It is fun. Everything in between is HARD PHYSICAL LABOR. My body is broken, I am constantly hurt, my voice is currently gone and I’m burned the hell out socially because we’re understaffed. And even if I was having fun the whole time, it is still hard physical labor combined with entertaining people for over 2 hours. No matter how much fun I have, I still go home sore. A fun job is still labor. A fun job can still be soul…

I've realized what always sours me on a job: unnecessary shadiness. I'm quite happy to be a cashier at a big box store and deal with the lows that come with that position until they tell me to relentlessly push credit cards on the customers. They infer but don't directly state that you can take advantage of older customers being malleable and easy to manipulate. So I switch gigs. I work in hotels and they tell me about the wonders of overselling the hotel. These exhausted families arrive only to be told I'm sending them to a different hotel because my manager decided the gamble of either having a hotel at 100% occupancy or having a hotel at 100% plus a few discarded folks is so very worth it because a couple of those people might be booking longer. Because rent still exists I have to continue to work but…

Five months ago, I was offered an individual contributor position X, but have been working my tail off to perform both – position X and Management Y. Classic bait huh? I’m the only person having skillsets and experience they need, but they refused to officially recognize me with a title and fair compensation. My boss literally told me that title is not important to him. They don’t want to hire another person either, but just spent $200k for a 2-month contractor who had very minimal effort. I don’t blame that contractor since my boss has no experience in technical and management. As my boss is about to put more workload on my plate in April, I’m excited to give my 2 week notice on Monday! I was offered a leadership role at another company. Although it’s contract, it has 2 years potential and should open up to more opportunities for…

I work at an large white-glove IT helpdesk, whose office is many, many miles from my home. said large white-glove IT helpdesk sent out a “listening with employees” letter yesterday about how theyve been listening to employees concerns about the exciting return to office culture. Said letter then spent three paragraphs talking about how they understood the misconceptions of having said white-glove IT helpdesk running on decade old equipment can hinder their professionalism and issue management capabilities. NEVER THE LESS, they have replaced all in office work stations with newer ones. Not the newest ones.. just new-er ones. Said white-glove IT helpdesk is a division of Behemoth IT Hardware Corp, LLC. and they posted record profits in 2020 and 2021. — News letter mentioned just a few other things about returning to office: Their excitement about seeing everyone soon, and a reminder that the parking lot is not guarded, the…

I accepted, though no papers were signed, a job offer for a subpar hourly rate position with a major company(doesn't really matter) earlier this week. I just got offered an even better paying position today with another company. I'm supposed to go in for training for the low paying job today in an hour lol. How do I break it to the low paying job I'm no longer interested?