Antiwork

Overheard one of the managers at my work say that to one of the admin personnel in their office area. I wanted so bad to be like “every time I walk by your office you're talking about golf with the other managers” lol We even have a joke, because our schedule is four 9s and a 5, meaning four 9 hour days M-Th, and a 5 hour day Friday morning. We joke that “it's actually four 7s and a 2” because so much of the office culture is into golf and people just sit around talking with each other for hours on end every day. We even have an inter-company golf league.

I got laid off after almost 16 years by my previous employer. They handled it like crap but I get a severance at least. I haven’t had to job hunt in a long time, at least, outside that company. I have been working remote so I decided to only apply for remote jobs and if I got desperate I would apply for hybrid or on site jobs. One of the first jobs I applied for is advertised as remote. I got through the 1st interview and it was great I liked the manager and really wanted the job. Then I talked to the recruiter (the hiring manager called me first because she thought the recruiter was taking too long) and she was very nice. But then she asked if I would be willing to do hybrid since the HQ was in my state. But it’s like a 30 min drive…

It yielded different results (TLDR at the bottom). For background, I am only almost 2 years into my career. I got my first and only job experience at a huge corporation right out of university. I was very enthusiastic at first and was doing quite well, but then the pandemic hit, WFH setup shook me as a trainee, found it difficult to cope and like my job as an accountant (especially bc it was quite far from my degree), and a LOT of family issues came out. All of these ruined my mental health and I just lost all motivation to do anything (not my past hobbies or even basic self care). I abruptly submitted my resignation to my manager’s surprise, and gave myself time to recharge. Fast forward, I was finally able to fully recharge and I’m now really motivated to work again and grow my career, so I…

I’m pretty damn pissed right now. I’m about to turn 35 but am unfortunate enough to have ED at a young age. I went to refill my GENERIC Cialis and after some back and fourth in the drive-thru, I was told that my insurance company rejected it. I asked how much it was without insurance and was told $317.00 FOR SIX PILLS! I figured there was just some issue because they don’t cover this generic or something like that. I left, went home to meet my beautiful girlfriend and was incredibly upset. She was hopeful and supportive, and I figured I’d call my insurance provider and doctor tomorrow and see if I just need to change to a different prescription. I called my provider, and was told they don’t cover ANY ED medications under the new plan. None. Apparently ED isn’t a condition worth providing coverage to. From the bottom…

Yet another example of a company whining about labor shortages but not doing anything about it. My company needs help badly right now, it's to the point where if one person leaves it'll be up to me and the assistant general manager to work 7 days a week and that'll include a few double shifts between us. Needless to say we've been hounding our general manager to get some new hires in. But he's dragging his feet, any time we give him an application someone turns in he hems and haws, they're never exactly what he is looking for, but the candidate he's looking for is a very specific person indeed and they aren't showing up to put in an application. About a month and half ago he informed us that we were putting sponsored ads for our vacant positions up on a very popular jobs site and that we…