Antiwork

I am so thrilled. I’ve been at this company for three years. They don’t value their employees, have sketchy practices, and overall my mental health has greatly declined since I’ve been working here. Next week I start a new job, where I get to work from home. I get to hang out with my husband and my animals all day. I get to stay home where I belong- and still be a functioning member of society and hold down a full time job. This sub really gave me the courage to start looking for other opportunities, and to not be afraid to prioritize myself when looking for a new job. I am so excited!

I have always enjoyed being a hermit in this page after having almost 10+ years of shitty jobs, shitty bosses, and shitty situations. For the past 2 years, things were finally turning up for me when my salary went up almost 3 times from what I have originally worked for, and it was for a dream company. This allowed me to stop working at least 2 or 3 jobs (freelancing on top of my usual 9-5) just to be able to accommodate living in a HCL and try to support my elderly parents. Even with the pandemic, I felt really lucky, and was on cloud9. The fact that I didn’t have to work close to 80 hours a week felt like a huge relief and I did everything I could to stay on my dream job which I have been working for almost a year. This, however, fell very short.…

Yesterday, I get a text from 'Sofia in HR' asking me to come in for an interview in a major city about an hour from where I live. I texted back that I was interested, but because the salary range varies wildly for the position I applied for, I also asked for the budget for the position. No response to the text. I called 2 hours later to confirm my interest and ask my question again. Sent to voice-mail, where I repeated my concerns. Now I get a text within a few minutes, confirming my interview, but nothing about salary. I ask again via text, no response. I went to the interview this morning. Took an hour to get there, as expected. When I told the interviewer during small talk before the interview that I drove an hour, he asks, “is that drive worth this salary?” I said that depends…

I work in childcare and I started at a new daycare yesterday. First thing when I walk in I’m told I can’t clock in early but I’m shown to a classroom to “observe” Few minutes later the teacher leaves the room, so I’m forced to supervise children while off the clock for about 5 minutes, Two teachers come back. One of them calls me to the office and shows me how to clock in. I work for 4 hours and witness so many violations of our state’s minimum standards for childcare and, due to lack of cleaning supplies, I had to violate some as well. We’re talking issues with child supervision, hygiene and cleanliness, diaper changing and hand washing, you name it. I went on my break, blocked the numbers of my bosses and the business, and didn’t go back. Some of my family and friends think I should’ve gone…

Not only have they given less than 18 hours notice, I’ll have to leave before 6am to get there for 9am, I have never been to this store, i don’t know where it is, I don’t drive AND I’m not getting any sort of compensation. And they’re upset that I said ‘no’.