Antiwork

Hi there. Long story short, I'm a fresh grad, one month into my work, handling social media postings. My boss has two companies and so there are social media accounts for both companies (FB, IG, LinkedIn, that makes six. He wanted to resume his YouTube and open TikTok, so soon it'll be 10 different accounts for me to handle ALONE). The previous employee left a hot mess and I spent half a month just retrieving passwords on all social media accounts. Our country celebrates Eid al-Fitr (public holidays) today and my boss insists I do postings every single day. I mean, I have to handle content, captions, photography, marketing and research to support data… And now he suggests I do postings despite public holidays & Sundays. I'm just one month into this “capitalism” stuff, and I don't know if this is worth sacrificing my life for. How can I say…

It was amusing watching them moan about young people not wanting to work anymore, personally I'm glad to see more people saying no to shit wages and actually enjoying their youth. Equally amused by the old woman saying how she was so glad she voted pro Brexit to “make Britain great again”. But was then surprised when they couldn't fill any vacancies previously filled by foreign workers. Maybe voting to deport a huge candidate pool wasn't such a grand idea??

On mobile sorry, I recently graduated with an Accounting Degree 🥳 and have been looking for jobs within the company I’m currently working for (to not have to pay my tuition reimbursement back). I’ve been applying for months and legit haven’t gotten a bite. Finally got a email back asking to schedule an interview for a financial analyst spot that was entry level and open. I showed up and interviewed 10 minutes and then they had nothing else for me. They started the interview saying “you don’t have any of the experience we need for this position” but you have the degree we need for it. Then asked me about school and excused me out. Fuck this, how am I supposed to get experience if I can’t even be hired by the company that paid for my fucking education!?

Yeah so I saw this coming light years away, and I’m writing this for those who see corporate office as a heavenly end goal in career. There’s a huge segregation between a full time employee and contractor, contractor will get you “with the team” fast but don’t assume you’re actually a part of something. I’ve seen HUGE segregation between the two, and some that seem nonexistent, but don’t get confused. You’re not a part of anything I’m a contractor cause corporate America loves the work hates the commitment (giving benefits and all), but they expect you to suffice with base pay and nothing more. This business was known from my contractor to have a fast conversion rate (going from contract to full time) except while every FTE was talking about promotion and movement I didn’t see any talk about where I’m going. I’ve made my effort, I wanted to prove…

I see a lot of posts and emails with the whole “It's been fun guy's but now it's time to rEtUrN tO tHe oFfIcE”. Who has held the picket line and told them to shove it when they told you remote work was “No longer possible” or “never going to happen”? Who here did that and landed a fully or mostly remote job elsewhere?

I work part time as a cleaner (shit pay, no extras, no bonuses, pay usually wrong, every equipment even down to the “uniform” is broken and taped together, vacation if youre lucky but usually you get called in anyway, understaffed, overtime etc etc etc) Since we are hired by a company we work in malls in shifts. A Co Worker is “sick” since the start of the year, so we have 6 Day Weeks, and since I only work 5-6 Hours 3 days per week normally, I split them those hours inbetween those 6 days, which is like 2-3 Hours per day. I signed out yesterday and one of the Mall workers asks where I am going (the split hours are now there since the beginning of the year btw) and I say that Im finished for today. There was more banter between us as I explain (again) that Co…