Antiwork

No family that had time for me because Dad was busy making money for someone else. Mom was mentally debilitated and on welfare and too burned out to care for her own kids. I grew up in an abusive household and escaping meant starving because no matter what I do I can’t make ends meet. I’ve picked starvation because it was literally that bad. My morals are too important to me to be a part of the problem…so I don’t have any motivation to keep feeding the machine. I wish I could just find an island somewhere with no people on it and just go about life without any of this bullshit. I’ve been hurt too many times and engaging in a job or anything else related to capitalism causes me more pain than I can take. I’m so done with the rat race … but there IS NO ALTERNATIVE!…

4:00 here and scrolling away on my phone at the office, opened LinkedIn out of boredom. Recommended remote job with Door Dash. Read through it and think huh, might be worth applying to this. Get to the comp section due to CO wage disclosure, and the base comp is literally twice as much as I’m making, and the upper range is 3x. Had the job not disclosed, I’d probably ask for a modest 15-30% bump. Crazy what state regulation can do for us. Information is power

I work at a pretty large company that has a really good reputation in the city I live in. To note, this company had been around 30 years yet there was no one in my department that had been there more than 7 years. Besides management, I was the most senior member at just over 4 years. Things really took a turn when I got a new manager mid last year. I was not particularly thrilled about this as I knew the person and they are an extreme micromanager. Anyways, starting in October 2021 here are the events that happened in order. I got a proformance bonus and was selected to train a new team member. They promoted someone who had only been on the team a year and happened to be my managers friend to team lead. I had a huge system issue that almost prevented me from completing…

Was in an auto parts store today for an interview. A man comes in and sees me being interviewed turns and asks my interviewer “How the hell are you getting applicants? I can’t get even the fucking Mexicans to work for me anymore!” He hung about ranting about how no one wants to work anymore. How it was because of all the government hand outs. After the interview concluded I turned and asked him “How much do you pay?” I don’t remember his exact reply. But it was less than minimum wage. I respond “I thought minimum wage was 7.25 an hour?” He replies “Farm jobs don’t have to pay minimum wage!” This fucker was interrupting my interview, ranting about government hand outs, because he can't find anyone to exploit anymore!