Antiwork

WFH making $100,000 in the Midwest, averaging anywhere from 5-25 hours of actual work per week, including meetings. I live in fear that I’ll lose my job for this reason. I’ve never made so much money and worked so little. I love it but it’s hard to relax. I don’t want to alert my boss and seem not necessary.

Background: Working at Vermont Information Processing for the past 3-4 years. Software Engineer 3 and great relationships with my coworkers, top performer, etc. This morning around 10AM me and a few coworkers had the idea to create a form that would feed into a spreadsheet so that developers could (if they wanted to – anonymously) post their salaries in order to be transparent in the development department. Within an hour, my gmail account was disabled, and shortly after that my macbook was remotely disabled. Completely in the dark with the only contact being texting a few coworkers who also had no idea what was going on. 30 minutes later, I received a call from the director of development with the following (paraphrased): “We think it's in everyone's best interest that the our relationship ends here. This is due to poor attitude in the past and a misalignment of goals going…

That a truck would hit her. But hey, I prayed for her I guess I just have to keep praying!