Antiwork

I do not live to work. When instead of helping me survive, work is slowly killing me… Something is really wrong.

This is a question I’ve been encountering constantly in my current job search. I never had an internship. Because I’m just too lazy? No, it’s because of the fact that in the two years of my program were the past two years of COVID. There weren’t internships. Many internship programs were reduced or just canceled. Most people I knew had their internships canceled. The worst part is some of the companies I’ve applied for that drilled me on my lack of experience are the same companies who canceled the internships I was applying for two years ago.

I will leave my home office, but only if my commute time is considered work time. Otherwise, fuck off.

I work for a large insurance carrier as an underwriter in a local field office. We had our formal return to office on a hybrid basis earlier this month and I still haven’t gone back yet, and I don’t think I’m going to. I’m the only local person in my department, my boss sits 6 hours away, and I’m having the best year production wise I’ve ever had working from home. I just cannot find the motivation or make sense of commuting to a downtown office (35 miles one way for me), paying for parking, and dealing with the office small talk and everyday distractions when I can be just as productive at home and help out my wife with the kids some during the day. Anybody else refusing to go back too?

Without any significant spoilers, the new show starts with a real antiwork type manager that absolutely nails the fucking ass hole boss archetype. When you see it, all you can think is fucking quit man.

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My partner is a teacher and scored a job in an outback town at the start of the year, we moved here and I got a job in January as a landscaper, I was the only employee for a family business and got along really well with the boss. Once fuel prices started going up he even offered to kick in an extra $20 or so a week (which probably only covered a quarter of my fuel for a week) but I was grateful. Flashforward to two weeks ago and the boss asks me to do some 12-14 hour days on a very big job, after the job is done I mention how the overtime is gonna be great because I have bills coming up and my boss stares at me like I'm speaking another language. This guy, who's been running a business for 9 years tells me that casual…