Antiwork

We typically have morning meetings once a week or so and on such days management asks us to arrive, punch in, and be ready to go five minutes or so before our usual start time. Five minutes is no big deal, but they have been threatening us with some form of punishment if we aren't there early (some guys are “late”), though we are NOT being paid (the time clock rounds up and/or the boss changes it if you punch in too early). I vaguely recall some sort of law or rule stating that there is nothing our employer can do as long as we are punched in and ready to go during the hours we are actually being paid, unless we are given “something” in the way of payment. Even if that something is Donuts or the like. Even then, would they not be hard-pressed to punish us for…

You know it's a great work place environment when the two owners keep pointing out that you should exercise more. I mean I should, but that has nothing to do with work or them.

Hi r/antiwork, idk if this is really the right sub but I hope it might at least be a starting point. I’ll spare the details for now at least but what I’m hoping to hear is stories or advice about switching from a conventional career (aerospace/software engineering) to something that I think might be better for my mental health (and hopefully those around me too). What I figure I need given my history (and this is 20+ years of outward “success” but inward pain and each apparently successful job ending in a mental health leave and then an ungrateful parting of ways) is something along these lines: Allows for choice, to take or not take particular opportunities Each gig should be of finite length without feeling obligated to keep taking on work from the same clients in order to keep up appearances or whatever Makes at least some use of…

Start of this story is back before covid and has me interviewing at a small tech consulting company. Coding mostly and then they had an 'emerging' app and advisory services areas they were hiring for the one role I applied for (advisory). Standard interview show up, sit in a conference room, their largest, I guess to impress me with a bottle of water. First person in is the CEO. This pompous ass after initial greetings goes on and on about the right type of people they are seeking who have the right kind of mindset, approach, style and background to back that up. I have my best I am enraptured with you face for the 20 minutes and then he stops. Not with a question, just stops like he ran out of pompous thoughts to spew. Knowing it is a 30 minute interview, I respond with a 5 minute pitch…

2 seniors with decades each of experience both quit in the last 6 months. There's 4 of us left, 3 of which have all worked here less than a year. We have over 400 client accounts to take on now. The last senior keeps finding things wrong with applicants so I doubt the roles are going to be filled. We'll ask for a raise but who knows how that's going to go. Even if we do get it, the sheer amount of work it's going to take to stay afloat. They could give me six figures and it wouldn't be worth it. My anxiety is through the roof, I'm dreading going into work now.

[Molly] McGhee, who was an assistant editor at Tor/Nightfire, writes that after ten years in assisting roles, she requested a promotion when her first acquisition debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times Best Sellers list. She says in her letter that she was told she needed “more training” before being promoted and she could not expect to be relieved of administration duties “any time within the next five years.” https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2022/03/editorial-resignations-at-big-houses-spark-reckoning/

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