Antiwork

I'm currently a one woman's show for a life coaching/tarot card business. I have a professional background in working in human services as a case worker for people with mental illness. So I pretty much just help others address their barriers and provide them with tools to reach their goals, all while emotionally comforting them. I have the view that my business is really just a “legal entity that embodies my passion for helping people” and my “employees” will be people I pay to assist me in expanding my passion. To avoid turning into a crazy money hoarder, I want to share the profits with my future team straight from the start. I would like to divide the profits into 3 equal shares of 1.”savings for emergencies”, 2. “bonus or perks for team members” 3. “reinvest into improving/ expanding the company”. For category 2, I would say “so team member,…

Yeah a slide on a PowerPoint is definitely what I want to when I work an 80 hour week. That makes it all worth it. I’m going to throw away my mental health and work-life balance for a PowerPoint slide. 100%.

I'm trying to lie my way into a work from home customer service gig. Just wondering if anyone has some tips.

Hi everyone I was working maintenance assistant at holiday inn in Victoria texas the first day working there my supervisor was already yelling at me because he expected me to read his mind without telling me what to do ON THE FIRST DAY I almost started crying to makes things worse he threw ironing board out of a room in the hallway because he couldn’t fold it back up. I left after the first day and never came back. Employers are like this in my hometown I was fired from a car wash after my father died and they wanted to come back to work a couple days later.

God help us all. Who designs these job application processes? I apply. Then I'm taken to a “let's streamline your candidacy profile” or something like that. You want a whole packet of information from me before you've even considered me for the job? No.

These are from a few years ago. I just got my masters and my teachers cert in music ed. I was applying for a maternity leave position, replacing a teacher temporarily while they were on leave. This was in February and I got the classic “Why do you want to work in our district”. I gave the answer they wanted, but i wanted to say “its February and I'm unemployed. It's because I have zero experience and need work! Why else am i here in February?! If I had more exclusive do you think id want a temp position?!” A permanent position mid year I was asked ” if a student brings an instrument you've never heard of how would you handle it? ” looking back my answer was essentially fuck you don't ask stupid questions. Mind you I've played music most of my life in many situations and places.…

Remember this gem? https://preview.redd.it/ohoa34fv3tj81.jpg?width=848&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfa8313eb2ec0faf4baa5c4a7319ff99012f123e