Antiwork

I have a job. This is about anti-work culture, which has grown increasingly cringe and dystopian over the years. Careerist (adjective): a person whose main concern is for professional advancement, especially one willing to achieve this by any means. Careerist behavior: upholds the status quo no matter how illogical it is posting feel-good, non-controversial statements all the time to gain popularity virtue-signalling on everything but has no serious personal stake/commitment does not tolerate opinions/ideas dissenting from the higher-ups does not tolerate critique, sarcasm or satire that challenges the status quo treats job as a popularity contest tries to get to know people just to exploit their weakness or insecurities Use cases: John is a careerist academic. He only cares about citation counts. All his papers are worthless regurgitation of old ideas and are simply used to attend conferences overseas, and his ideas are not followed-up even by himself. Emily is…

This is a long but (hopefully) satisfying story so please bear with me….. I used to work in business protection in a large department store (over 200 employees) for one of the biggest retailers in the UK. I was also the elected democratic forum representative for our store, a position I went for on the basis that the only other person who went for it was an upper store management lapdog, and that didn't sit right with me. Apparently the majority of other employees (we called them partners in our company, which is a joke now that I think about it) agreed, and I got the role, which didn't go down well with upper management! This unpaid role was about speaking on behalf of our own store employees at national meetings, so I felt it was important that someone had it who wasn't in the pocket of upper management, it…

It was just “how many years experience do you have?” And I’m like “4 years.” Then she was just like “so you want the job?” I said “sure.” That’s it. Now in the hiring process. No (I need references, why did you leave your last job, why is there a year gap from your previous job, or hypothetical what would you do in situations.) It should always be like this. Employer- “I need worker. You want job?” Needing job person- “yes” Employer- “ok, you get job now.”

I lost my job in october last year. It was an unexpected downsize that company subjected upon different employees and unfortunately I was part of it. I believe my massive social anxiety may have been the cause of my firing since I’ve always battled this problem for years, thus I had a hard time contributing to the interrelated elements of professional meetings and other dealing — or the firing was simply because of my poor job performance, I can’t say. In my country, it is not weird for a person to live with their family as I continue to receive financial support and their roof over my head; atleast I am safe in that regard. Disgruntled by the job loss and the underlying causal reason — ie my social anxiety — I reserved the next 3 months for learning how to communicate with people. I choose a difficult interpersonal task.…

For the day care I’m going to work I need a physical, I’m planning on going to the doctor, and get the psychical for work, I am not forging the signature. How every there are dates I’m going to change, mainly the tdap vaccine date, that last time I had it was 2011, I need it for to work there the 10 years is up, I had a very bad reaction to it when I was 12 (the last time I had it) and can not get a medical exemption because of lack of proof from my medically neglectful parents:( and I’m not sure what to do, how likely will I get caught? Or they goanna call my doctor, my doctor knows I had issues in the past, could my doctor call my work?