Antiwork

My spouse and I have been able to save a bit thanks to the student loan pause and we thought we'd put some of that savings back into the local economy and spruce up the ol' homestead with a little landscaping, something we've been planning for a few years. Maybe a couple bushes, a tree with a border and some rocks, ya know? Maybe throw a few hundred at it and come home to a pretty yard instead of just plain grass. Got a 3D idea for what we want and it's gorgeous! They did a great job! But…then came the estimate and it's over a month of our paychecks, combined. Color us surprised! We had no idea what the market was like! Honestly, though I'm glad. Landscaping and labor outdoors is hard work! Ya'll deserve it! Sad we gotta wait on the yardwork because we can't afford to lose…

(Mods, if this is outside the purpose of the subreddit, please feel free to take this down or direct me to another subreddit – I don't use reddit often at all) I work at a coffee shop in a major city and have recently begun working a second job at a different coffee shop. For convenience let's call them “Shop A” and “Shop B”. Shop B has been around for much longer and it is exceedingly clear the more I work there that Shop A has problems that Shop B doesn't. Namely, the workflow is much better and doesn't involve people crossing paths behind the bar, the tasks for when the shop is slow are specific and not just “do what you can/prepare for close”, schedules are given out with more notice etc. On top of these problems, there is also an issue with boundaries at Shop A. A longtime…

Left my very first job for a better opportunity, they begged me to stay but I was dead set on leaving. I was interviewing for another company in the meantime that offered me a better pay but I was really passionate about the new company. Had my goodbye party today at the first job and everything. One hour after the party I get a phone call from my new employer telling me to not come in, and that some people have been temporarily laid off due to VCs decision. My new manager had also apparently quit two weeks ago. This company was growing like crazy and was on a hiring spree, so this was so unexpected. I work in a foreign county and am on a worker’s visa, so this opens up a can of worms as I might not even be eligible for unemployment, and no severance package as…

so i could send it in to work for me