Antiwork

That parents in America don't get paid maternity leave. Not even the woman? Is this true or have I been lied to? What does one do if they have kids? Do they get dismissed?

For nearly two years we have chosen to eat through savings and live in poverty on one work from home pay cut salary in order to care for our now 2 y.o. child and not bring home COVID. I have been looking for work after little one is asleep for the night bc we are really feeling the crunch and today they looked up beaming and said ‘Mommy and Daddy are always here’. It was sweet but it really fucked with me. Like what more important job is there to do than to be with your child especially during their first years. Fuck this. Also I’m gonna have to eventually break their heart and probably expose them to covid in order to not be homeless

What do you get out of it, besides obsessively stroking the hate boner you have for the working class?

I will NEVER forgive my parents for pushing me out into this world while being working class. I HATE wageslaving and I HATE the fact I'm going to HAVE TO keep doing that at least for the next 30 years to come Way to enjoy my life, dad! Yeah prolly gonna get downvoted but idfc, I had to vent

On Friday I went into the office along with my coworker, at the behest of the manager, because there is a task he wants us to work together on. I noticed my coworker was coughing a lot. Come Sunday I started feeling sick with sore throat and a bit of a cough. I can't know for sure, but I feel like it's definitely covid. Obviously my coworker should have known better than to come into the office if he's coughing, but oddly enough I am more pissed off at the asshole manager for basically micromanaging us into coming in on the same day just so he can ensure his stupid tasks are finished in a timely manner. I mean, tbf he's normally pretty flexible, but I guess he's been getting heat lately from one of the clients about us being too slow, but still fuck him. This was such an…

The ugly behavior and obsession with status was too much for me.

I'll try not to draw this out too much cuz if I go into all the details this post will be insanely long. Also, idk if conspiracy theory is allowed here as I have no proof one way or the other. My father-in law recently hit me with a spiel about “nobody wants to work”. And talked about how all these businesses are hiring and understaffed. (Which BTW, I'm pretty sure he was taking a jab at me because I'm self-employed and they HATE it.) I said, “I'm not so sure it has anything to do with desire to work. For starters, working conditions at some of these places are awful. Been there, done that. Secondly, your daughter (my wife) has been applying for new work for almost 2 years and can't find a new job. Everywhere she has applied has been “urgently” hiring and understaffed. And a bunch of…

Anyone have that job that still creeps into their head, living rent free, years after quitting.

Hey, so I have started a new job in in Finance. I was approached by a recruiter and overall the process went well and fast and got the job without any previous experience. They have training and everything but I just realized accounting and processing is just not for me. I cannot understand most processes that I do, I keep struggling with everything + I started during an extremely chaotic transition that I am a part of. I have other interviews lined up in the finance/management sector so I am not quite worried about my future, I have other skills that do not make me worried about finding a job in the future. What I am worried is the reaction of the managers. They invested a lot of money to hire and train me as a contractor, would it be rude to leave the job? Also, I am one of…