Antiwork

My boyfriend and I work as a cooks. We get paid on the high end for the industry/position but it's still a struggle. After bills, my boyfriend and I have a pooled $300 a month to provide daily spending/groceries/gas. We don't live extravagantly, we rent an apartment priced normal for our area and don't spend money on anything “luxury.” I think we spend ~$25 a month on some streaming services. My boyfriend has chronic health problems and needs insurance and has some medical debt. I have dental debt and we've racked up credit card debt from living paycheck to paycheck. The insurance premium plus the debt payments alone cost us $850 a month. So I picked up a second cooking job. With me being a full-time student, I could only add on weekend nights. So now, Friday through Sunday I work for 15 hours straight, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.…

Wake up every morning, go to a job that you don't enjoy, make loads of money for your boss while only making pennies back, get home with barely any time for yourself so instead you just eat dinner and go right to bed just to do it all over again. Then on your days off you're too drained to partake in any of your hobbies so instead you do the necessities (laundry, trash, a bit of other cleaning maybe) and spend the rest, well, resting. I'm just starting my first “real” adult job (40hrs/week) and it's honestly a nightmare. I want to be able to do what I want to when I want to, and to create content that helps people. I also don't have the attention span to sit at a desk for hours out of the day. But instead I'm stuck working this job just so I can…

Have been working at a very toxic and controlled work environment where we do everything for the doctor. All of his dictation, biopsies, setting up and closing for surgeries for very little pay, can't have a phone on you (I am a mom, need to be available in case of emergency). I was also told that I am too nice and the doctor prefers a nurse with “less personality” who makes “no mistakes”. Right, okay. Here's your resignation letter. Also got all the staff to disclose pay to each other and found some wild discrepancies not based on experience at all. That should be fun for him to deal with. Start my new job in hospice, where kindness is a skill necessary to succeed and my soul can be fulfilled. Wishing you all the best in your endeavors!!! I can't wait to turn this sucker in today. It's oddly the…

So we just got told that our entire team has to work the Easter holidays which are designated national holidays. I already have plans which is quite frustrating. When we told them it's a national holiday, they responded saying that head office said we are lucky we don't have to work weekends, so should be appreciative of that. In our team, everyone will begrudgingly work, so if I said no, then I'll be the one who's not a “team player” We will get a day off in lieu, but I already have plans etc. A day off in lieu doesn't cut it