Antiwork

I have been trying to find work for months. Hundred oh hours spent on hundreds of applications. My wife just got layed off. Both of us are coming to the conclusion that businesses aren't actually hiring. There are tons of jobs I'm qualified or overqualified for, but where either my wife or me follow up with the businesses we apply to 95% of the time they inform us they aren't hiring. The listing in there to have back up workers. Meanwhile my friends are complaining that they are working in skeleton crews because they don't have enough workers. Are businesses just deciding to run on skeleton crews because it's better for the bottom line? If so why do they have ads on job boards if they don't want to hire. One of the companies doing this is Walmart.

I talked it my general manager and told her I needed time off due to personal reasons and said I needed to change my availability for.thr time being she said it was fine so I did that on that app and not 30 mins later my other manager denies my request I'm going to talk to my general manager later but when the GM says yes but another manager says no I have no idea anymore

I really don't like the rat race now a days. Capitalism is really not good and I want to escape lol. What are your views on working in the public sector like healthcare or education? It's not perfect I know and you still have to work hard and the pay isn't good ect. Ect But maybe it's better in some ways?

This happened last year but I just need to get this off my chest. I used to work as a chef for a very popular bar in Barcelona, I was on €1400 per month and was paid half of my salary as a bank deposit and half in cash each month. This is very standard practice amongst the hospitality industry in the city, particularly at the smaller independent places, and yes it is as dodgy as it sounds. Employers will tell you that it's a win win situation, they pay less tax and in turn you get a higher salary, but let's face it, we know who's winning. So, after 6 months of working there, I go to collect the cash part of my salary at the start of the month, a task that was often harder than it needed to be as the accountant who was in charge of…