Antiwork

Hey everyone, I remember a while back someone posted a way to force a company to show its notes/reasons/conversations on you from the hiring phase. Does anyone remember that law/policy/post? Thanks!

That’s how much land could be given to every single US citizen while allowing the government to keep its 640 million acres of land. Oh yeah I almost forgot, it also leaves the small sum of 1.5 BILLION acres for anything else anyone could possibly want. To give you a sense of scale: 1.5 billion acres is 1.85 times INDIA’s total area. India is the seventh largest country in the entire world. It would only take 12% of the land in this country to give each and every individual 39476.25 square feet of their very own land. Assuming each person is also given 200 square feet of living space at the average finished cost of $184/sqft, it would cost the government about $12 trillion dollars to house everyone in brand new construction. HOUSES. Not apartments, HOUSES. Sounds like a lot of money though, right? Well, turns out if the government…

Lying flat is a very simple concept. All it is, in a nutshell, is refusing to participate more than you absolutely have to. It's a form of protest. What it looks like is building yourself a little emergency fund and then cutting your hours at work down to the bare minimum that you need to maintain yourself. So working just enough to eat, have shelter, and all of your necessities. You won't really be buying much and you won't really be going out on the town much, but it sends a message if enough people do it. It's a way of protesting a system. The reality is that we all have to work right now because the system won't allow us not to. That sucks. So we can protest it by lying flat and refusing to participate in this shitty system (shystem!) more than we have to. This puts financial…

As the title says, I have the ability to save companies I work for millions of $$$ but I don't. If 15 minutes of my work can save company $500,000 I'd rather browse reddit in that time. Only I know I had this opportunity for savings and whether I do it or not, I'll get paid the same. Because of my profession, I can only work for mega global corporations so I feel absolutely no guilt doing this. I'm even proud of it! I'm like a virus, companies hire me, pay me a very decent salary and in return I rot them from the inside.

Joined a fast-growing company thinking that it would be interesting and a bit less bureaucratic than my previous employer. Around the same time, the company started a major hiring binge that included a huge number of “program managers” who seem to do nothing other than create huge numbers of status reports, all reporting the same things to various managers who have been promoted up due to growth in the ranks beneath them, but who all still seem to want direct involvement in everything going on 2 and 3 layers down, with each of them wanting it with different timing and in a different format. Last quarter, we were told that going forward we were going to formally track all “cross team dependency items” which was basically anything that would take more than one day of effort from another team. Since my team provides services to pretty much every team in…