Antiwork

If we exclude the burnout caused from the pandemic, has burnout from work gotten worse in the past, say, 20 years? Or was burnout just not talked about as much in the years before? We don't/didn't hear so much about burnout in the 90's or prior to this, despite the fact that automation was less prominent and a decent number of careers required more physical work on employees' parts than they do now. Burnout from being work is brought up a lot nowadays, and so many more people seem tired and unable to have a healthy work/home lifestyle. Is this due to a change in work, or has it been part of working this whole time but not as openly addressed in the past?

I’ve worked as a commercial lender at a bank for 2 years. I stated the week covid shutdowns began. I feel I have learned quickly but covid has changed the natural flow of things. I was asked to cover as the president of a market an hour away due to a termination. 2/3 days a week there plus my normal responsibilities from Oct-mid January. I was offered to move there to become the market president, but had just bought a house where I am now and my fiancé and I didn’t want to move. I am also the president of a non profit in town. When I was hired, I was promised “about $50k salary, plus bonus”. I have received a 2.5% raise each of my 2 years, and a $1,000 bonus. I have never even touched $50,000. Is this a typical salary? Or am I getting screwed m

Every time i apply for a job on there, its an annoying process. 1) upload resume 2) type out everything in my resume again on the next page 3) take some weird 10 minute quiz about “which of these two completely unrelated statements do you most relate to most” and retail scenarios 4) get a message from indeed saying to go to the company’s website to “finish” applying (aka, redo my application process), bonus points if the website is too complicated for my goofy brain. If i have to do this whole thing ONE MORE TIME, SO HELP ME.

I was a team manager in my previous job in a translation office. Sounded prestigious but I was basically supposed to translate/proofread like other employees but also cooperate with the business team with scheduling translation projects and allocating them to other in-house translators. Just two people at most, as it was a small company. Pay wasn't great either. After a few months of almost no new projects we finally bounced back. The boss visited us personally for the first time in ages and congratulated me personally on my “great scheduling”, adding that there will be a “financial appreciation bonus” for all of us. She gave us sealed envelopes some time later. We've all opened them as soon as she was gone. What was inside mine? The equivalent of 10 bucks. Funny thing is that our newest employee got twice that. Our boss didn't expect us to discuss the contents of…

I know a lot of people are struggling to even get minimum wage, so this is a bit of a first world problem. I've worked minimum wage and lower, so I know how much that truly sucks and I fully support the cause of destroying or at the very least, neutering, capitalism. But right now I feel like Chandler in that episode of Friends where he wants to quit his job to draw comics, but they keep giving him payrises. At this point I'm like, money can pay for goods and services that are useful and enjoyable, but because of stress I don't have the energy to avail of any of those goods or services outside of work. I'm in line for a payrise which I was planning to put towards therapy to help deal with the stress and then it occurred to me “That ain't right” In the short…