Antiwork

Good morning Ladies and Gents. Today I'm offering you a bit of a different side to Anti-Work. Yesterday I was notified that my supervisor was involved in an accident and today he was pronounced dead. I am grieving. He was an amazing person that saw the best in people. He gave me a chance at a job that I was not qualified for and became what some would call a mentor. Last week we were discussing our plans for fathers day month and how he was planning a trip. I am planning a trip as well to see my father. He was telling me last Thursday how excited he was to retire in a couple years and how he wanted to go on a fishing charter, play some golf and catch up in the yard. He didn't make it to retirement. This specific circumstance kind of shifted my thoughts on…

If I get a decent work life balance and a good pay – I would be willing to make overtime – even work on weekends (sometimes) and be loyal to the company. I imagine this was the rule when boomers were in the workforce. Got a job without an HS diploma – overtime was paid 2x or 3x – not to much stress – and the company valued the worker. If I had it as easy as a boomer I owuld actually even perhaps enjoy work. But as it is now? No way. You have multiple degrees and are treated like trash, the stress is unbearable and your contribution is not valued anymore. Dont blame me if i dont want to work then!

please forgive this vent – I'm doing very badly right now $1500 USD for a bedroom. okay WHAT??? I make $50k, how is that not enough?? how! what do you want from me?? All the potential roommates here are fleeing the region or resigned to their fates of living with their folks. Day in and day out I'm browbeaten by my folks…I'm 29 and I still live at home. How can they not understand that I'm not living with them by choice… I'm tired of not being able to have people over. Not being able to cook. Not being able to get a little loud. I am in the blackest of pits. I used to work 2 jobs, 100 hours a week. please don't make me go back to that. please. I'm so tired of crying in despair every day, shuffling into a job that piles more responsibility on me…

Employers realize that getting everyone back right away won’t work. Employers will try to have everyone come back slowly—perhaps over a few years—such that people have as little resistance to the change as possible.

I worked until close, around 2AM, my ride was drunk, so I started walking. I got home at 3:30AM. There is no bus in this city on Sundays, so in order to make it to the mandatory meeting, I would have had to start walking at 5:30AM. That would give me 2 hours at home of which I would have probably been able to sleep 20-30 minutes. After the meeting, I had a 6 hour gap before having to work until 2AM again. I wasn’t going to spend half of that time walking, so I would just be at work for 19 hours. Instead, I said fuck it and slept in. I sent them a text saying I was doing it and why. They scheduled a remedial meeting a 2 hour transit away too early for the bus so that the map app had me go there at night and…

I've never posted on here before but I'm a fan of reading some of the stories y'all share. I had something amazing happen last night and I really wanted to share with the world. So, up until the end of February, I was working for a franchise of a security company. The last few months of my employment were relatively easy as I worked at an assisted living facility where the bulk of my job was just monitoring alarms. It was great, until Christmas, when my boss decided to cut all of our hours to accommodate bringing in another guard when we didn't need another guard. On top of that, some time after the new year, the facility was bought out by a new company that seemed to be under the impression that as security, we were also on site maintenance/office assistant/gopher. I made it clear that I wasn't able…