Antiwork

I’m in tech and my company makes us fill out an arduous portfolio with references. Wondering if this is normal at other companies, especially tech, or complete bs.

I do software validations, which require several hundred pages of gibberish, and some (remote) testing on the customers machine prior to the actual system qualification. I work from home. Manager told me on Monday: Documents must be ready today (Friday) at noon. Had a lot of trouble accessing the customers machine (Citrix is BAD), which delayed progress. Wrote him on Slack: Docs will be ready by today, but not by noon. He answered: No problem, next week is still ok. — That's what I pulled an all-nighter for. Fuck'em all. I poured a drink and stopped any kind of work for today. Will visit some friends later, ride my bicycle, and do some weed. Basically, I have no problem with all-nighters and working on weekends, because I tend to work rather little during normal office hours, so it's not actually unpaid work on sundays etc. — But I DO have…

My work is so toxic. The management is awful, they are rude and nasty and snakes. My work is, in theory, flexible. Put you on when they need you, take you off when they don’t. Like the title says, they punish 0 hour contracts but not giving them hours. I’ve seen this happen to someone else, now it’s happening to me. My schedule never came through on my phone, and I missed one shift. (For context, I am only there as a formality. I do nothing for 5 hours. Literally.) I went from getting all the shifts there to having none until further notice. Just a small vent, sick of this place :/

I live in a small city in the middle of the country (Springfield Missouri) so it's cheaper to live here. I've also always had roommates (miserable, but not as bad as working). I only made about $11/hr for 7 years (never had a 401k but I should've. Didnt get unemployment or any other gov't $. Haven't had an income since besides the roomies). I'm very frugal and I paid off my house when I was 29 by paying a lot extra every month (it was $75,000. I've never bought house or health insurance but I probably should). I buy food by price per ounce – the price labels at stores usually show in the top-left corner how much it costs per ounce (i try to not go much over 12 cents per ounce). I only buy things like clothes & electronics if I find them at least 50% off. I…