Antiwork

I’m a month from graduating and have started applying for jobs, but most of them require a year of experience. It’s extremely frustrating that I have been working so hard in school only to be told I need a year of experience before even being considered.

Just got my annual review on Friday. I got a 1.8/5. My boss said y”ou know those 4 and 5 stars are impossible to obtain so you really received 1.8/3.” No cost of living raise, no opportunity to negotiate for a higher raise. My work is constantly complaining about the cost of everything going up, yet refuses to compensate us for that same problem.

Another poster shared his story as to what someone said to them because they had a gig job on weekends and what was said to him when they found out. This took me back to last year. I left my job as a call center Supervisor at the end of March 2021. I was there 10 years but after a merger, things changed… for the worse. Any case, the pandemic happens and around April 2020, several of people who reported to me were in contact with someone that tested positive for COVID. This was a no go since my oldest has Chronic Lung Disease (born with it) and my spouse has an auto immune disease (didnt matter, I ended up getting covid August 2021). I told them I was uncomfortable due to this and went home (left the office). After fighting they finally permitted work at home. AFTER docking me…

​ My current assignment ends next quarter, applied for the job I was doing before. Only difference now is I am a higher pay bracket.

I have recently started working with a new department and have heard that most of them wake up at 4am and stop working at midnight, skip lunch, work on weekends and do not take PTO or take it and work throughout. I was shocked and grateful that I am not on their team but I asked a few of them why they do it. They told me in many ways, “well yeah we work a lot but we make so much/a lot of money!” I found out that they make $80,000/year on average…. yes that is an okay amount but for dedicating your entire life and losing sleep/free time it is fucking pennies.

My husband is riddled with bad luck, but one thing about him is that when someone wrongs him, the karma comes back hard. (Example: A police officer gave him a speeding ticket and was arrested one week before his traffic court date causing his case to be thrown out.) He was fired just a few days before Christmas and this was when I was out of a job as well. I had planned to buy him presents literally the day he got fired but quickly changed my mind when he came home from work 6 hours early. This was really the nail on the coffin of a miserable 6 months where my husband was promised commission pay, but his manager always found the smallest reasons to put it off for an additional month. Then once this manager finally confirmed he would get commission, he was fired only 3 days after.…

tl;dr: I was drug tested twice after a work injury, lied to, and quit in a very satisfying vindictive way I worked for a factory that made brake components for companies like Honda, Nissan, and Kia as a temp on a “fast track” to be hired on full time. It was supposed to be maybe three months on this program, but I was in it for over a year and a half with no one approaching me to be hired on…. just one of the many things that made me hate this job. Anyway, this story isn't about that. It's about the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back which made me quit with a very satisfying F.U. moment. I had been injured on the job. We had a conveyor belt on our line that didn't work, a work order was submitted to maintenance two months prior and we were…