Antiwork

Headhunter firm contacts you about a very high-skill and specific kind of job but claims not to know what the pay range is. You make your rate for that kind of work perfectly clear, you get a “should be no problem” answer to that. Sounds interesting and you are bored anyways so why not give it a closer look. Both the headhunter firm and the company they are hunting for are very large, serious and famous companies. The kind that make it sound quite dreamy to have something to do with either one of them. You are redirected to the firm in question for an interview with two of their managers, both of which would be direct supervisors to you should you transition. Usual stuff, for you rather basic questions, strange hint that I should avoid telling the headhunter firm all the details about how it goes from now on.…

Saw an ad for a competitor last week during the Super Bowl – company was bragging about their donation to a non profit in the ad. Cool story bro. Ran into one of their account managers yesterday. She’s been with the company for at least 8 years and has a fantastic reputation in the area. She told me they just laid her off! What was the company thinking? This is a tight knit community so I wouldn’t be surprised if accounts start dropping the product over this. I’m so mad for her!!!

I am an Advanced Care Paramedic and am extremely proud of my career. I have personally been invited into your lives for so many sacred and scary moments and I thank you immensely for that honour. This is the hardest decision I have ever had to make. I write this after lying awake for hours on end, anxious and crying. How many nights I’ve done this over the past few years I can’t count. We are so overworked, understaffed, under appreciated in a system that has been broken prior to me even joining its ranks. I bring a fully stocked Emergency Room to every scene, I can cardiovert, intubate, perform cricothyroromies and needle decompressions, yet I still am known an ‘Ambulance Driver’. I laugh at this as I know my worth but what I can’t get over is how the system values it’s Paramedics. It doesn’t. We are meat in…

I just need to pull carts and if the cart place is full I can sit down as long as I want on my phone.

I’ve been wavering on this decision for months. This past month has been particularly awful. I was publicly called out over an email chain with all of my colleagues (I worked for an agency) for not being able to uphold an unfair workload. I was – on average- working 10-12 hours a day to keep up with expectations. The CEO refused to hire anyone to help me, dangled the opportunity of promoting me to management for 2 years, and always being told it would happen “the next quarter.” At some point I started to cut my days at 8 hours. When this happened, not all of the work got done. I communicated I needed help and was faced with “you’re not organized or planning correctly.” I was performing several more tasks outside of my job description with no compensation for the skills I brought to the job. There was no…

Honestly I wouldn't even be mad if my bosses acted like they actually cared about the work I do.

What the title says. I just dropped some doughnuts off for some folks on the picket line. Give whatever kind of aid you can provide whether you're in a union or not. It doesn't necessarily have to be material support. They fight for all of us.