Antiwork

Get job offer at local “Burrito place” Have several years working service, think would be cake. Explicitly ask for a Local shop, 6 in a 15-20 mile radius. First day is 45 mins away 1 hour 15 mins there & back FML. First “training” day involved typing at a crusted keyboard in a 5×5 room with sick workers coughing; runny nose but no fever LULICANWORK.jpg Watching cringe “work culture” videos & take grade school lvl test with 0 of the subject material. Fail repeatedly wasting 7 hours, “DesperateBoots, Come in at 7 am to chop onions with sick cook 2. Gl with 5 hours of sleep” Wake up at 5am questioning recent life choices as grandma & grandpa hack up lung in other room. Fuck Corporate.

For context, I am not actively looking for work although I was recently, so my CV is still floating around. This recruiter found it and approached me. I am a senior manager, the role title on offer is the same as my current one and the salary range he mentioned is around what I'm making now. I was curious so I asked him for more information so I could do my own background. I work in supply chain so it is literally my job to find out quickly if opportunities are worth pursuing. At first I assumed that this recruiter wasn't actually representing the company and was planning to sell them my CV once I was on board. However my wife's friend is a recruiter and she says this is a fairly common practice, for some reason some companies don't want it to be known they are hiring, and also…

So my wife has to have back surgery and policy states that her vacation days have to be used up before short term disability kicks in, which basically takes her from 20 and hour, 50-60 hours a week to like 15 at and 40 hours a week at a rough guess. Love how they set it up so you basically get punished for trying to take care of yourself. This causes ppl to push themselves too far to get back to work, possibly messing themselves up again. Because money matters more quality of life. If it isn't like this already where you are, don't worry it's coming soon.

I work for a relatively small company but not small enough to care about you if you're working here. I understand wanting to have higher ups view you as a good worker in case a promotion comes up but why do people care so much about the small stuff? like people will report me for the most minor stuff that does nothing for anyone, and will make the job their life. Maybe I'm just cynical and just depressed working here and it weirds me out how much someone can care about someones business so much for no gain. We aren't paid based on the amount of products we get through the door (although there is a small bonus every few months but it's not worth getting stressed out about, it's really small). The people that annoy me the most are the micromanagers thinking they're team leads when they're blatantly not…

I was chatting to colleagues about one of our junior staff. They mentioned that he started of great, had an amazing work ethic in college, but had significantly dipped in productivity and enthusiasm. They then concluded that the issue was that his heart wasn’t in it and he should leave. It’s a term I hear so much from management. I completely understand drive is needed to cope in our job, but we aren’t saving lives, we aren’t caring for the vulnerable, we aren’t helping children to develop and learn. We’re making sure that super high earners feel comfortable enough with their bonuses that they don’t feel the need to terminate those trying to make ends meet. I have no problem with people being lucky enough to land in a job they love, but I absolutely resent this idea that you not only have to work if you want to survive…

This is an interesting thing that happened to me today at work. For context, I generally don't take my lunch breaks in full, if at all. It's an unpaid 1 hour lunch break. The industry I work in is very demanding. I, and 95% of my coworkers, eat food at their desk while working for a lunch break. Management knows this. It's not contested by anyone in management for obvious reasons (free labour, more productivity). I know, I know, bad habit. That's not the point I'm about to try to make. Last Friday, my partner sprung it on me that his grandmother from a state away and his mum and dad would be coming over and staying a few days. Late notice. I asked the head of my department to take my lunch break (keeping in mind I rarely take a break at all) at the end of the day…