Antiwork

My core team are all pretty old school in terms of their mindset re: WFH. They are all managers that need to monitor operations. My role has lately been more focused on data analysis and not so much being on shop floors. The argument for being in person working in an office are the following: more collaboration due to in-person meetings learning from your peers more “productivity” Ya well… with my team, there is none of that. I talk to my coworkers once a week in person. There is no magical meeting of the minds, but that’s more due to just the type of people I work with. I am sure some teams really do get that synergy by being in person. I will host meetings in a conference room, and then realize nearly all of the attendees decided to log in thru zoom, in their cubicles 50 feet away.…

I started a new job in January, working a large, locally owned furniture store. I went through the interview process with no actual red flags, which surprised me. It is family owned and I never heard even a slight variation of “We are a family here.” Which was okay. The pay range for my position in customer service is $15 to $20 per hour, which is high for the area, but still not really enough. There was a yellow flag when they never mentioned pay in the interviews, but then again, as I am new to customer service, I was expecting the lower end of that scale. I was right. I get in and find out that I am coming in to a restructured service center. Like, the old customer service team was only 3 people, handling hundreds of service requests and payments and other issues. 2 of the people…

I'm on holiday, but got an abrupt email from my employer stating I needed to be in work at a certain time for a serious meeting with all staff. I appologised but also made it clear fuck you I'm on holiday. They've has no respect or decency and I've not heard anything from management in any form, but have found the relevant details from a newspaper article online the next day. I'm keeping it as vague as I can but it sounds like the place will be closing “due to staffing difficulties “. Of course I'm sad as I loved the people I cares for but deep down? Such a massive sense of relief. Relief from being over worked and put in to challenging situations with people I'm not trained to care for. Relief at no more gruelling nightshifts and working 6 nights over 7 days then being thought less…

Yep you read it right. Because of the mandatory return to office policy, a lot of employees are either resigning and going for remote jobs at international companies or they will go freelancing/online business. Most Filipino workers here now realized that no job is worth risking our mental health especially unhealthy companies forcing us to go back to the office. Mainstream media is not reporting it HOWEVER there were reports employees are threatening to resign if they force them to go back to the office. Also, there are a lot of recruiters reaching out to me lately because a lot of workers recently have resigned in local companies. It's not as big as the US but it's a huge movement in my country now that workers don't want to waste their time and energy going back on-site.