Antiwork

Hi guys, I graduated with a degree in chem a little over a year ago and I wanted to share my experiences with job searches and exploitation by employers in higher Ed with people who are thinking about a chem degree. I graduated with a bachelors December 2021 and quickly landed a job at one of the best public research schools in Atlanta. This experience taught me that being a lab tech sucks and here’s why: The starting pay was $15 an hour for 40 hours a week and not more. As someone with little experience in the “real world” this seemed like a good bit of money starting off but I quickly realized it was not enough to live off of. I loved the research I was doing and was learning pretty quickly. However, the PI was giving me more work than I could handle. On top of designing…

I am currently in a college town in the northwest, and while there was a point not too far back where fast food and restaurants were struggling to staff their stores (more than the usual amount they are horrifically understaffed) and I've been mass applying on and off for months towards “unskilled” part time labor to do alongside my other part time job. Despite changing up strategies, keep a variety of different unskilled labor apps, and expecting only a wage of 15 I've found that broadly I am unable to get callbacks, interviews, and when I do they tend to degrade when I expect 15 an hour or when I tell them I want part time work. Currently there is the semester active in my college town, so a lot of unskilled labor is taken by college students looking to make rent alongside classes. The cost of living is also…

I eventually want to start my own business and I want input on what a good company to work for looks like. For myself, I hate being micromanaged. I hate working 40 hours a week doing the same mundane tasks. I hate “quality assurance” and getting berated for not putting in effort because I’m just too burnt out to care. But I don’t know what a healthy work environment looks like because the current company I work for has ALWAYS been toxic.

Hi! I just turned 21 and I got a new job almost 2 months ago and I hate it. It is a warehouse job and I ended up with hours that have ruined my routine. I spend everyday contemplating leaving the job but stay out of both fear of judgement from my parents, and not having a steady paycheck every week. The pay is decent, but in my opinion not worth the way I end up feeling daily. I don’t pay large bills monthly either. What should I do; quit now and don’t look back or wait and try to get something else lined up before making a decision?

Well. Without input from any of the actual content team at my job, the higher ups decided we should just replace every human writer with an AI program and turn every existing writer into an AI content editor so we can pump out tons of sludge onto low-value sites. First off, i don't have the energy to explain that the way we are approaching this makes for terrible SEO. That, and I hope my suspicions are correct and this blows up on them later. Second, they put this into effect so quickly and without warning that there are now tons of people at my job that are without pay or work. Some of these workers have been with us since this company started and to see them get kicked out the door without so much as a thank-you for all the hard work? Gutting. Finally, the way this information was…

My sister works above and beyond for this company in Tennessee. Over 60 hours a week. She has financially improved the company so much that she has caught notice of the CFO. The CFO has told her to come to him first if she is looking for a new job and they will negotiate with her for her to stay. She is a product planner where they fill lotions and other stuff in bottles for the big companies in the US. She is overweight, yes but that doesnt excuse the fact of that man being a bully. I told her to stop what she is doing and go to HR. Well conveniently there isnt an HR right now bc that lady switched to a new company. So now her boss is filling in on the HR duties. So my sister called her boss and he said that she is overreacting…