Antiwork

I remember till early 2000s my dad used to get a month vacation on a yearly basis excluding the public holidays. Cut to now I'm not allowed to take a week off unless it's pre approved by my manager's boss and i have trained at least 3 people my duties. Still I get calls during my vacay on how to deal with stuff, my answer “I don't have my system, sorry” Management deliberately keeps the team understaffed. Recently a girl from the team left and she had given a 2 month notice. The management still haven't found a replacement, guess what they want a person with 6 year experience and are willing to pay fresher's salary. who the fuck is gonna sign up. Rest of the team has to cover for her now No one wants loyalty, quality of work, efficiency…they want robots who will overwork every single day, no…

Because the point of you, the supervisor, is to be hiring substitutes! What kind of message is it saying when you're telling me, a full time employee, to make sure I get my area done when it's out of my control on who I can and can't hire for substitutes? You don't even HAVE substitutes, that's your problem! You spend more time whining in the break room about how you have had to work 12 hour shifts than you are trying to get more people to help relieve full timers when they take off. And I see it now, whenever I take off and come back, my area is still a mess. Why? Because you didn't assign any substitutes to do my area since you don't have any. A co-worker has been having to come in even though his knee is still blown, simply because you can't hire more substitutes…

Workaholism isn't healthy. It's a disease and it is promoted as if it's a virtue. Feeling compelled to work towards someone else's purpose to the point of exhaustion or worse, doesn't sound like a noble trait. It sounds servile and toxic. And to make matters worse, advertisers promote this as a positive attribute for us to strive to attain. We should “want” to hustle, they tell us flippantly, as if we're idiots for not seeing what they can. If we want to attack the workaholic rebrand of “hustle culture” then it needs to be done in earnest. Support groups for workaholics should be created. Like Workaholics Anonymous, to display in real life that there is a problem with being a workaholic. Just talking about it behind closed doors and on websites isn't enough. We're phantoms. Meme Ghosts. The only people who know this subreddit exists are the people browsing Reddit…

Hi, I don't really know how to start this post. I understand that I am speaking from a somewhat “privileged” position. So I am a German mathematics student and what I am specializing in doesn't really “have” jobs aside from Postdoc/Professorship. I find it hard to continue believing that I will one day be able to acquire a chair at a University as there are only in the low double digit many in Germany, many universities with a math degree don't even have one. Also the road to it would be incredibly long and hard. To work as a postdoc is also nothing to be desired for an extended period of time (aside from being a stepping stone). So I was wondering whether choosing HarzIV instead of working is a viable option. Positively, it would allow me to focus fully on my research without worrying about deadlines and avoid the…