Antiwork

I quit my job in December to study full time for a license. I still can't believe I will be doing the same exact work for double the pay later this year. It's a 9-6 job, with an hour commute (only 9 miles, but that's Los Angeles for ya), so I had no time to live my life. I saved up enough rent for a year and quit. I'm happy and sad. I don't like the complete emptiness of my day (besides studying), but at the same time I'm scared I'll never want to go back. It's so freeing not to give up 12 hours of your day to people who make all the money that you are earning. Not sure why I'm typing this up. Just needed to get it off my chest. I hate that after the next few months I'll most likely be working a 9-5 until…

Last fall I had a company reach out on indeed. Seemed like a good offer with the only downside being a two hour round trip commute. Phone interview with the COO for about 30 minutes. Later that night Im asked to take an assessment. At this point I’m turned off. I have a bachelors and 15 years professional experience. A few days later it’s interview time. When I get there I’m asked to fill out a second application and wait. I’m now asked to come into a small room with a glass wall. I’m facing both the COO and another individual. I’m then more or less retold the job description, asked if I though I could do the work, blah blah blah. I’m not asked about past performance, nothing about my resume or college. And that’s pretty much it. I’m asked if I have questions, which at that point how…

I don't know whether this belongs in antiwork or lostgeneration, but I'm angry that my whole life every company has tried to treat people like children. I'm a grown adult with an education, a mortgage, and a career in a professional field. Yet my employer recently changed goal-setting to be a worker responsibility, and micromanages the ####ing GRAMMAR we use in those goals. Heaven forbid our supervisor should direct us openly, instead, every two weeks the whole team gets to play a half-hour guessing game where we propose random goals and sentence structures until we find the one they already had in mind. But that's not demeaning enough. We spend tens of hours together planning product features, scheduling work tasks, and curating a finely prioritized to-do list, but apparently that isn't “engaging” enough. Now we also have daily meetings where they call on people to read our goals aloud for…