Antiwork

After 8 years with a large corporation I was passed over not once, but twice, for promotions that went to people with a fraction of my experience. After the second time, I found another job paying a little more and gave my 2 weeks notice. 4 days to go. I even got myself a little 2 week vacation in their for me too! 🙂 It’s funny how pissy they have been since I gave my notice. They don’t want to advance me, but get pissed when I leave on my time table , not theirs. 4 more days. Can’t wait!

I don't know if this fits this sub, but it's an interesting observation. At work we have two break areas: one large for the hourly workers and one smaller one for the salaried office workers. I started providing coffee pods for both break rooms because morale here is super low and the company bought us a Keurig for each room but refused my request to start providing pods as well (even though I know other departments order them with their monthly supply orders, our department is just bottom tier because we don't make money). Anyways, I started providing them for both rooms. Last week I was on vacation so I wasn't here to fill the little holders we have. Low and behold, when I got back today, the one in the hourly break room is full because people started bringing in their own large boxes to contribute. Some of them…

I’m a engineering team lead for a pretty well known video game company, and if I had enough money to retire, I’d never code again. If I was born rich, I wouldn’t even know how to code since I wouldn’t even want to work. I see people on the sub often say that society would still function if work was not psudo-forced (starve or work), but all my friends would quit their jobs and never work again if it wasn’t for the money. I can’t even imagine people collecting garbage if it wasn’t for the money. Or people doing any physically high demanding work like construction. If no, how would society even survive?

This is absurd. I did everything “right”; was abundantly clear with my recruiter, current manager, and all people who interviewed me that working remotely was a priority, I have operated within the bounds and conditions he provided me (let him know at the beginning of the week which days I would be working remotely, do touch bases when I'm working from home, video on, etc), and have even been in the office WAY more than being remote because I was learning the position the last couple of months. And then he has the audacity to say “we will lose the ability to work remotely if we don't scale it back”. Motherfucker I have been scaling it back, we agreed I would be working remotely 3 days a week when I figured things out and its been 1-2 days at most every single week, with some weeks me being in office…

We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Terence McKenna

I officially signed the contract with the lawyer! Just as I figured, my employer—a nonprofit residential drug rehab—has been royally fucking me on overtime since I started working. When I was hired, a coworker told me to save all my paystubs and make copies of my timesheets because they had just settled a lawsuit for the same exact thing I’m suing them for again, only a year and a half later How they’ve been fucking me: -All of my paystubs will have something ridiculous like 102 regular pay rate hours and then a few hours of OT. -I work 16 hour shifts that are spread across two days (example: Monday 4pm-12am; Tuesday 12am-8am). My employer hasn’t paid me any kind of OT for these shifts (which have been like 75% of my shifts since starting) because they said they don’t have to pay OT because they’re two different days. Even…