Antiwork

work 9-5, come home, eat, take a shit, sleep, rinse and repeat That's it? Really? Just coz I wasn't born into wealth? Fuck this shit, soon I'll quit this BS I call 'life'. Reincarnation as a rich guy is my only hope it seems

What are your thoughts on this? I think it's the best way to fight fire with fire.

Trust me, this doesn't have anything to do with me wanting to be an awesome little worker bee, and everything to do with me not wanting to dump a bunch of work on my team at the last minute when I can quite easily do the job from home (we have the staff to handle it too, so it's not like it's that big of a deal, but it's just so very dumb). So the place I work, like so many others, recently ordered all of us back to the office after two very clearly successful years of telework (only two days a week, so it's not terrible, but anyway). It's been alright so far despite the return of the various clock watchers who like to monitor how often people use the bathroom (I know, a different rant entirely, but seriously, what the hell?). Anyway, onward to the cavalcade of…

I don’t know wether this has happened to any of you and I sure hope that if it hasn’t it never does as it can cause not only an awkward workplace but a toxic one as well. I’ve known this person who we will call Jim sorry to any Jim’s out there but I’ve known Jim for about 4 years and every time I’ve seen him around or in the canteen he’s been having a laugh with the colleagues including myself of course. I considered Jim as a good friend at work always pleasant to talk to and if you had any problems you could ventilate and he’d always listen. Recently he applied for a new role in the company which would soon make him a new trainer and of course to no ones surprise at the time he got the job! We were so happy for him and when…

I woke up this morning feeling very anti work. I’ve been at a defense contractor position for almost 3 years and I woke up this morning thinking that an ethical decision would be to quit today on the spot. Yay or nay? Money isn’t an issue and everyone is amazing at my current job – I just can’t mentally handle the 40% attrition rate that we’ve had in the past year. Maybe it’s time to swap careers and become a plumber…