Antiwork

I'll start… I frigging dislike how uptight the app is and full of self congratulatory back pats and transactional job postings.

They dont seem to realize were all 1 happy family here. Does anyone know the meaning of “job” and care to share with the rest of the group?

Here's a little backstory: me and a colleague of mine both applied to an internal job. My experience matches closely the experience required atthe new job while my colleague's is similar at best. He was given the job and my manager gave me some bs feedback on why i did not get it. I am absolutely sure that he was promissed this new job even before having the interview, since they were overconfident about getting it. The interview did not have any technical questions (for a highly technical job). The question is: is it worth trying to uncover the truth and asking for a real reason or am i just loosing my time?

For context, after studying for 5 years and taking a 6 months internship, paying 42k€ for my studies, and struggling to find a full-time position for the past 15 months (after the end of my internship), I've finally landed a position in my field. But in these 15 months I've never felt more anxious than I feel now. The job is in Munich. I'm sure the city and its people are lovely, but it is 900km away from what I've known my whole life, from my few loved ones, and from my family. There's also a lot of administrative paperwork to go through before I can permanently move there. I hoped the pay would make up for it but after taxes I'm only left with 1.9€k/month (12€/h). From my point of view 1.9k€ is ok, but it is less *hourly* than what I made at some part-time jobs. More importantly,…

The bottom 50% holds less than 2% of the wealth. How are we exploited after it's inevitably all taken from us?

I have been in my job for 9 years. I am a CPA and report directly to our CFO. Our current CFO has been with us for two years and in that time our unit has been restructured and my section and another section (after that person that was in that post was transferred to another Department) was amalgamated. But all the responsibilities of that other post now and some of my CFO’s responsibilities have become my responsibility as well. And it’s not as if I did not have enough work before… I was the star worker and my previous CFO appreciated it, but the new CFO has decided to overload me. So how do I now push back? Do I just deliberately make a mess of my new and existing tasks?

Last night, my Mom came home from work, doing an afternoon shift. To make a long explanation short, she had a terrible day at work. Mom works as a lab technician at a hospital (I don't want to say which one because I don't want to get her in trouble) and her job treats her like crap. There is no simple way to put this. She is treated badly at work. She made an attempt to find another job in our area, but that is easier said than done. She works hard and is the smartest woman I know, however, she feels like her shitty coworkers make her feel like a big failure. I want to help her, but I am a disabled person, trying to get assistance and through programs that work with disabled people, try to get employment. However, I also realize certain employers take advantage of people…