Antiwork

Hi all, As the title suggests, my company's making us come back to the office soon and I'm absolutely dreading it. Because of WFH, the flexibility and freedom aspect is just so much greater. I don't have to wake up at 6 AM when it's cold, put my silly suit on, make my hair literally every day, catch the crowded train, make sure I reach the office on time at all costs. This way I can wake up closer to 9, work on my schedule (still obviously get everything done and meet deadlines), have lunch with my grandma, maybe take a short nap if I'm too tired/stressed and even have something playing in the background as I work. And once work is over, I can just kick back because I'm already at home, unlike reaching at like 7 PM or so after a long and tiring commute. All the work…

In my sector, nonprofits in DC that rely on grants, it is customary for organizations to provide all employees with annual cost of living adjustments (COLA). The funders even expect the increase in multi year budgets. This year, however, the CEO is refusing to give any COLA to staff citing a “tight budget” after providing staff with 3% increase last year. We are a staff of just 9 employees and with inflation at a crazy 7%, I think getting no COLA is outrageous. Your salary is practically worth less. I spoke to the CEO to convince her and she claims COLAs are never guaranteed and the organization provided it last year during the pandemic even when most places did not. She suggested that we could do 1.5% increase now and if things improve for us income wise we may add another 1.5% mid year. I’m never a fan of employers…

I’ve been working as a trainer and coach for a mortgage company since November of 2020. When rates were low, my job was great. Now that rates are picking back up and tons of people have been laid off, I was told that my job now requires me to make out bound sales calls 40 hours a week with no commission. If I don’t hit goal, I lose my job. Now I’m sure I could do the job but I have no intention of making that company extra money for no additional compensation. So I resigned. Today I got info for a coding boot camp I’m going to begin in July. Until then I’m going to Instacart, drive for Uber and maybe take an MMA fight (I was an active fighter for years, don’t worry) But I’m excited about the next stop on the journey.

So my dad has been in middle management, the higher end I guess?(distribution manager) he’s always made a good 6 figure salary to support my mom, my brothers and I. Which as long as I can remember has been his entire life. He works, comes home and when we were kids used to have some free time to be our soccer coach and baseball coach and whatnot, but as we got older and he had less of that it seemed like he kept getting more and more work. A few years ago he got a new boss, a guy half his age with little experience. Worked my dad ragged. Assigned him to nightshift work in his early 60’s, which also became weekends and part of days as well; bottom line he was working practically nonstop. Gets home to his work laptop in the early morning after a full nightshift on…