Antiwork

How much of your time do you spend wishing you had the means to quit your job for good? I've been on it for 3 years; I turned 30 last year and realized that I don't want to spend however many years climate change and it's impact will give us, typing away on a keyboard. And yes, I am privileged to have an office job that pays well. And If I still had the mindset that I had in my 20s, I would have stayed, “worked harder” for that yearly bonus, the metaphorical pat on the back for a job well done, and a title to tie my identity to. But the older you get the more you realize that none of that really matters. I'm physically and mentally tired of the rat race that we are all on, in one form or another. I can't imagine working in an…

I had an interview with this company last year that went fine, pay was typical for the position but was much closer to my home than my current job. As we sit down to discuss terms, I ask about the health benefits. I'm then told they cannot disclose health benefits until after I sign on with the company. Mind you, this is a large company owned under Mars. I don't know about yall, but I consider health benefits part of “compensation”. It's important! I take chronic medications and need to know how much of my remaining paycheck I'm going to sink into deductibles after I already pay the insurance company their monthly fee. Needless to say, I declined the position. They frantically tried to give me “logical” reasons as to why and tried to schmooze me into the job. Obviously, it didn't work.

Foodservice, normally closed on mondays. We were doing a deep cleaning day and I was looking forward to it because it's a short shift and I needed to put some elbow grease into my station. All's good, works done, they pull be aside at the end and fire me for bullshit reasons like “You're not growing as fast as we like” “You're not listening when we point out what you're doing wrong” blatant lies, I put my everything into this restaurant, I loved this place. No warnings, no write-ups, no paper trail. The only other things were moments when put up boundaries or asserted some kind of authority (ie insubordination or bruising the boss' fuckin ego). It was so abrupt. I'm confused, and angry, I already have a backup plan so I won't be without work for long but it's just not fair. I was so happy there, stable, making…

I started a new job not too long ago and have been pleased with the work from home policy. On a normal week, I’m in the office Monday through Friday. I just got back from a vacation (planned before the job started) and got home at midnight. Came home to an issue that required I take care of it night of, so I was up until 2 am. I decided to work from home so I didn’t have to commute. Our policy allows for me to do so as needed, as long as I make it known in the local company chat. So that’s what I did and I got sarcastic remarks instantly from leadership, remarking that I ‘need a vacation from my vacation’. And that I ‘didn’t want to see anyone after a week away’. They were both joking but jabs like that in group chats never sit well…

because i want to. because i said so. because everyone is a lazy ass piece of shit who doesn’t wanna work. not because everyone is sick during a global pandemic that’s still ongoing, not because i don’t have half the shit i need to even be open because every single operation is short staffed, not because no place pays anyone an iota of what they need to actually survive, because i hate you. because the world hates you as much as it hates me. because you suck and so does everyone the fuck else. go home.

As I 'worked' to prepare for an interview I realized this just seems like BS. I actually had one of my friends say that interviewing now-a-days is like having a second job. You need to watch all the videos on how to do it, write up a zillion STAR stories, and then companies ask you to do not just a sample of your work but full on projects. My most recent encounter was with a company where I have yet to talk to a single human. Applied for the job online, received a form letter email reply asking me to record a number of videos for them answering questions. The best part was they said it would only take 15 to 20 mins. But you were only given 2 mins to answer a question and often only 1 chance to do so. So you had to spend a bunch of…

He works at a warehouse for a big company that has daily targets, and he's been there less than 3 months so he's still in the probation period. The targets are set by upper management and ridiculously hard for new people to achieve, even people who have been there for years fail targets on some days. The managers are really strict about people hitting targets because they want to get promoted so they must make their workers work harder, so a lot of the managers are unbearable and unreasonable about personal circumstances, etc, and just generally not people you can talk to about work problems like a “normal” boss would be. A lot of my partner's colleagues that he started alongside have had their probation extended for just barely meeting targets. But my partner is experiencing some weird stuff from his manager. For example, she took some of his numbers…