Antiwork

Hi everyone, after so long lurking I've finally decided to share my own little tale of job searching in the USA compared to home in Europe. Coming to the United States was worrying me as endless personality quizzes, 10 step interview processes and 5 hour long job applications are already all too common, and I was not disappointed coming here. That said, I've finally got an offer for a great position, but I learned some rules along the way: If they try and automate the entire application process with quizzes and scenarios, and offer a single short interview, the company's financial position is not good enough to hire good human resources. You will almost certainly be offered a low wage and have an extremely heavy workload. If a company doesn't advertise the salary, it is not worth applying to. Even if the salary is reasonable making the choice to post…

Ekko said something that really stood out to me. When he was showing Heimerdinger this sanctuary he built for struggling citizens, he says “it’s not enough to give people what they need to survive, you have to give them what they need to live”. I thought this quote would fit in this subreddit quite nicely to show employers the difference between a surviving wage and a living wage.

So Iam project manager for a remediation company. Been working with these people for 3 years now. Today I got done with work really fast. There was nothing on schedule, did the best I could to be productive I follow up with whatever customers, my accounts receivable is 0 and no issues whatsoever with any on going projects. Left work at 1230 boss calls at 150 telling me Iam salaried and that Iam supposed to be productive or find something to do. Marketing or whatever. Which is not in my job title. I mean I don’t get the whole notion about salaried when the whole reason why salary is an option is if you get done sooner you’ll still get paid the same. With that being said I occasionally will have to do late nights which Iam okay doing. I mean am I supposed to do other roles that are…

If you didn’t know, today is International Women’s day. I found out last month, a man who is doing the same job as me is getting paid £6k more a year and he has been here less time. Today they sent an email about “break the bias”. Is today the perfect time to bring up that I’m getting paid less and their email is a load of bullshit?