Antiwork

I was testing smoke alarms in a new townhouse development for compliance reasons and a site manager approached me to query which ones I'd completed. We got to talking about the site and I asked a few questions. Me: Out of interest how much are the 4 bedroom townhouses? Site manager: 'for rent?' Me: 'oh no, I mean to purchase' SM: 'oh, they're not for sale' Me: 'oh, what did they go for?' SM: 'Nothing, they're owned by name of owner, he owns this development' Basically he goes on to say that 1 guy owns 180 townhouses worth between 800k to 1 mil+ each. And he'll just rent them all out. Later in the conversation, and back on the topic at hand. I remarked how surprised I was with the amount of 9 volt batteries I had to swap out. He said he wasn't surprised because these new townhouses were…

I'd rather suck dick for half an hour a day than work 8 shit sucks ass

I work in law in the UK and its pretty standard when you're in a fee earning role in the UK to have to give a 3 month notice (partner level it's 6 month). My mental health has suffered greatly and I'm considering quitting but 3 months notice…I'm hoping either garden leave or they'll pay me out of my contract.

I was closing the restaurant tonight and two of the owners were hanging out at the bar getting drunk. I was waiting for the last few tables to wrap up (they were sweet people hanging out; no problems there), but one owner insisted everyone do shots. I went along for a bit and drank the equivalent of a shot and a half. He of course was doing this round after round. After the tables had left, I was doing the last of my closing duties, trying to go home, and I had to shoot the owners down maybe a dozen times to do shots. I specifically told them I had to drive across town to get home, yet they still tried to goad me into drinking. Listening to their dumb conversations at the bar and having to shoot them down over and over again was exhausting. It was an intense…

Many Chinese companies endorse the infamous “996” work schedule, that is they want employees to work 9AM to 9PM six days a week. A recruiter has approached me to work for one of these companies. I am thinking about asking for $300K a year, plus full benefits package. I want them to know that I am on to their 996 bullshit and consider it as ludicrous as they will consider my salary request.