Antiwork

The money we make in jobs is hard earned money, its putting our mental and physical effort. The time that we could have spent in spending with friends, passion, relaxation, we spend in doing things we would nt do for fun. At least not for so long hours. I made a good amount of money in the last 5 years. If I look back, it was a lot of money but most was paid in rent and survival. Money makes more money. If I had the money I could have done a lot better to reach a place where i don't have to worry about my survival. Sometimes, I feel the modern world, the slavery is designed in just a different way where it is not forced directly but indirectly.

Currently employed in a ”unicorn “ IT job with acceptable pay and benefits but an astonishingly low stress level and NO rude surprises due to a very well thought out 5 year planning cycle so in fact I’m not looking to change. Even so, lately I’ve been getting courted hard by various recruiters and I cannot believe how dense these people are. I get a call, requirements blah 10 years blah blah, job profile blah blah blah, like a family blah blah blah. So i ask about pay… $17/hr. I -politely- tell them that my current market value is considerably above that and I’m not interested in working for below $30. Recruiter pauses and says “oh I have a different opportunity”. Again I ask how much…. “$18.50” Um… no thanks “Oh well how about this one…. blah blah blah, good exposure, blah blah blah, hybrid work from home…. HOW MUCH?…

I called in sick to work because I tested positive for COVID. Offered to work time over the weekend since we’re coming up against a lot of deadlines, and my boss responded saying flex time isn’t really designed for that and “going forward, you really need to schedule your other obligations around the work day.” Sure thing dude. I can’t fucking breathe right now, but let me reschedule.

I honestly think we're all in trouble besides elite level people. I make like $62,000 a year. I interviewed today for a higher position that could start at like $75,000. Now I know this is the part where people will come at me with torches and pitchforks but that's not that much money anymore. It's worth roughly what $50,000 was worth 10 years ago. Rent for even shitty apartments is $1500. 3 bedroom outdated houses that don't even look nice are like $350,000-$400,000. You're not getting something that's actually nice-ish until about $450,000. I was led to believe someone can go to college and get a nice middle of the road house with a lawn a wife and a couple kids. Now it's more like “Okay either your wife also needs to pull in an additional $40,000+ to account for helping pay the bills, daycare, etc or if you want…

What the title says: I’m not particularly proud of it, but I had an experience that I wanted to share. I was recently laid off and am in the job market. I’ve been speaking with many recruiters of varying repute and I’m not sure if it is the supposedly great job market or what, but I feel like the amount of bad behavior on the part of recruiters has skyrocketed. I applied for a remote job today and got a call from what turned out to be a 3rd party recruiter. The guy proceeds to tell me that the job is only temporarily remote and that I would need to go into the office eventually. It said this nowhere in the job description. I live across the country from the company’s headquarters and only applied because the JD said remote. Then he said that it might be possible to work…