Antiwork

I am now legally able to sell drugs and alcohol, which means I need a full-time position, which means possible 40+ hour work weeks. Plus, my mother wants me to stop working part-time and blindly wants to toss me out, even though I've been making progress with working and trying to study to get my driver's license. I sometimes wonder why she even put me into this world if this is what entails it. Well, there's no excuses. It's time to expand my wage slavery to full heights. Thanks, mom and dad.

Just had an interview where the interviewer told me “we want people to stay here for at least 3 years,” but that I shouldn’t be afraid to leave my job after 6 months because it’s not a good fit for me. Then she immediately went back to how they want their new hires to stick around for at least three years because they get their investment back that way. Like, guess it’s ok for me to waste a bunch of time on you, but it’s not ok for me to establish a healthy boundary and admit that things aren’t going right.

I'm wondering why there seems to be so few worker cooperatives in tech, given that it doesn't require a lot of capital and depends mostly on employee knowledge. Law firms and accounting firms can be co-op. I'm just wondering why tech workers don't do this.

There is no worker shortage, there isn't even a 'wage shortage'. Everyone is proper desperate enough to take almost anything at this point, there are hundreds/thousands of applicants to almost every “urgently hiring” position. The catch is that almost every company is making more money from running a skeleton crew because the market is entirely speculative and the government keeps giving them loans for being short staffed. The loans will be forgiven. The backlogs are exploding, both because of all the loans and because there just isn't enough people to actually do the work. But the valuation of companies keep going up because the backlogs are exploding, which means the companies keep getting more loans. The price of food and housing keeps going up and eventually your salary isn't going to cover it.