Antiwork

I need to vent so thank you in advance for reading this and letting me get this off my chest to the good ol' internet. I'm on mobile so apologies for all the things. On with the vent! For context, I (29F) left the IT world to start a new career (that I'm still at now) in mortgage. I took the role due to a struggle finding a new job during the pandemic since my IT job decided to fire everyone. Very rude! Anyway, all I was hired to do at my new job was make sure all the things are signed, email people to tell people to sign things, then send those things to the assigned bank for loans. That's the super short version of my job. 4 months in the person hired to give the receptionist breaks complained they didn't like the receptionist break duty so of course…

I've worked in IT for nearly 18 years. Throughout my IT career I've done lots of things from helpdesk to solutions architect (never a developer) as well as a business owner, contractor and FTE. I've never specialised in one area. Always doing different things, which is great and I can work most stuff out but never a full pro in one area. Have I messed up my career earning potentials and basically screwed myself over as all high earning areas are specialised? Trying to work out my next step of what to do and I'm not sure if I need to rethink what I should be doing instead of falling into the next step and filling that gap so to speak. Thanks in advanced if you read this.

Employers refuse to pay more Because of inflation Employers refuse to pay more because of rising housing costs Employers refuse to pay more because of the pandemic Employers refuse to pay more because of The worker shortage Employers refuse to pay more because of the gas prices Do you see a trend here? Because it seems like the solution is pretty obvious to me. If employers are not willing to pay more for higher overall cost of their workers, then the workers should quit, and leave the employer high and dry with the problem. It's not the responsibility of a worker to save the entire company and when they get no additional pay or incentive to do so. I mean, that only makes sense, right? If the small business is going to go out of business because of it, who cares? It's not your small business? If the customers don't…

quote from Letters to a Young Poet, written to a struggling prospective poet in a military academy

I was speaking with a friend in Australia and she has not gotten paid for 3 weeks. She now does not even have enough to take the train into the city to work the job itself. She hasn't been able to feed her cats or herself and quitting is not an option at the moment. ​ Does anyone know what Australian organization she can call to make the government take legal action to get paid? I don't know enough about Aussi bureaucracy to recommend an organization to contact. ​ Fuck this place, she literally cant eat

I have to travel over an hour on the bus, my buses go in 40, wp minute intervals, leaving 10 minutes early saves me 40 minutes, I have wake up at 7 tomorrow to make it at 10. When I asked about 10 minutes supervisor said “these are the hours on rota these are the hours you signed up for when starting the job”, even though I have signed up for a role that starts 11 earliest, and when asking for small wiggle room during my interview they said that'll be fine

It’s been a week since I interviewed for a job. I followed up with them, but seems like I’ve been ghosted. Is this normal?

Hi everyone, after so long lurking I've finally decided to share my own little tale of job searching in the USA compared to home in Europe. Coming to the United States was worrying me as endless personality quizzes, 10 step interview processes and 5 hour long job applications are already all too common, and I was not disappointed coming here. That said, I've finally got an offer for a great position, but I learned some rules along the way: If they try and automate the entire application process with quizzes and scenarios, and offer a single short interview, the company's financial position is not good enough to hire good human resources. You will almost certainly be offered a low wage and have an extremely heavy workload. If a company doesn't advertise the salary, it is not worth applying to. Even if the salary is reasonable making the choice to post…