Antiwork

The student loan pause has greatly affected my life. Once I was paying around $1000 a month for loans which I’ll have to be paying off for decades. When the pause went into effect, I was able to start saving money each month to the point that I could purchase a home. It felt great to be free, and it still does. But the point at which I’ll have to pay these loans again still haunts me. The idea I have about loans is that it’s a new form of indentured servitude. Where we use these loans to gather knowledge and pay it back after we graduate and find a “good job”. Yet not all employment for post-graduates pay enough to allow us to payoff the loans we borrowed and still live the life we want. Sometimes to the point where there are no savings at all and just living…

I currently work as t1 tech support($21/hr). What my job actually entails is doing high level application support that required me learning SQL. I have almost no programming background and was provided zero training, documentation, or assistance. I had to learn how to support this by teaching myself SQL from working (or not working) portions of code in the program, and my google skills. I asked for a road map for promotion/raises/career advancement and was told that I would never see a raise/promotion. My manager specifically told me that I would need to apply to another team for career advancement. So I did! I received an offer working at another company that met my entire checklist, like being able to work remotely (instead of 3 days in the office for t1 support), and the pay is over double what I am currently making. Managers: be careful what you wish for!

These three things just walked in to my life last week. My whole entire team is taking their vacation days to either study for interviews or just to burn them before they start their new jobs. I got an offer for 20k more. There will be no front end or back end team come two Mondays from now. How do people still think this is an effective way to run a company, especially one you just walked in to. Prior to the hostile take.over, I was in line for a promotion with a 30% increase. Kinda bummed about not getting that, but whatever.

The only reason I do my job efficiently is so I can relax in the afternoon when I am tired, not have more work put on me. I know many other people feel the same way. As a result, people are taking longer to do their assigned tasks so they don’t have as much on their plate. So if businesses want efficient workers, they should be encouraging downtime

I work for a huge multi-billion dollar chain. It's a job where you are on your feet 24/7. Literally, they designed the store to have no chairs anywhere on the floor so we can't sit down. At this particular location (I've worked many locations), you have to ask over the walkie-talkie for your break, and you're pretty much shamed for doing so (not verbally but it is very obvious). Some of my coworkers work 9 hours (ON THEIR FEET THE ENTIRE TIME!) and do not get even a 10 min break when my state requires a 1 hour break for 9 hours of working. My other locations put our breaks into the schedule everyday because they're a huge company and can get into big trouble for not giving breaks…. this is one of the thousands of issues with this company but I also know other companies are a million times…

It looks like everything is trending back to normal. The White House made their announcement that it is time to “get back to normal” and employers responded resoundingly. Mandates were lifted just about everywhere and employers, specifically Fortune 500 companies, began their push for some resemblance of “return to the office”. ​ Obviously, many people are upset. A common retort to this is “surging COVID cases in my area” or something akin. My point is – COVID cases don't need to be the end all be all justification to wanting to remain WFH. ​ It is okay to say that you don't want to return to the office because, simply, you don't want to. We as employees have dramatically changed the way we work and adapted quickly to a WFH environment many of us were never exposed to. Many of us lost our jobs due to COVID and worked hard…

(throwaway for obvious reasons) I work in an understaffed department. Because of this, it's hard to find people willing to cover shifts. I had to take off a day on somewhat short notice and spent the week trying to scrounge up people to cover my hours (one person isn't able to cover the whole shift). I finally get people and I get a call today saying that one of the people I got to cover will end up overtime and refused to approve it for that reason and it will count as absent. I told them that's fine I have no choice and they said I'd get a write-up if I did and are insisting that I call them tomorrow to say I'm calling out. WTF? I am giving you notice that I won't be in. It's bad enough I have to run around finding people to cover this already-understaffed…