Antiwork

My job doesn’t value me and even demoted me. But still I worry about the quality of my work. And I feel guilty calling in sick or taking a vacation day. What is wrong with me? I wish I could not worry about the quality of my work but I do. And im so overworked I get dumped on.

So I work in the trades. And I’ll be the first to admit I fucked up by calling the abilities of my journeyperson into question, which is something you should never do. They retaliated pointing out a whole bunch of things I was doing wrong and how I wasn’t improving, etc. and then called me expendable. I totally had it coming but since I’m only a first year apprentice, I can’t be expected to be on the level of someone who’s been a journeyperson for a decade or more. What does everyone make of this?

Here in Australia our unemployment rate is at a 50year low but I’m worried this golden age might end abruptly due to the Russian war and this might mean I’ll delay looking for another job. And this could slow the great resignation. Anyone else worry about this?

It doesn't sound bad, but it is fucking awful. I work with chemicals, to be specifi, they are solvents called Xylene and Toluene. They are in liquid form but also they are in the air as gas. We wear respirators that have cartridges that are good for up to 500 PPM (parts per million). The problem is that the PPM gets much much higher than 500. I consistently see my meter reading 4000 PPM inside my work area. They used to have air hoses on a reel on the floor that you could hook up to a supplied air hood, but the air coming from our air compressor was not high enough quality to breathe so they took the hoses out completely and now all we have is our respirators. I'm being slowly poisoned for a living basically. The solvents aren't necessarily bad for your lungs but they are bad…

Interview was suppose to happen at 3pm. But the person came 15 minutes late, just to ask same questions every interviewer ask since the concept of interview for job came into existence. “So you didn't do anything in period of 1 year after your graduation?” As i was battling with cancer for year. Yeah, i didn't do anything for time, where i was incapable to do anything. Constant question related to fake scenerio which they built “what would you do in this situation?”. Me: “there are lot of possibilities, can you please elaborate”. Interviewer: “it's just a simple scenerio”. Me: “alright i would do this”. Interviewer: “… That's.. against company policies”. Ok then fucking elaborate more, and be prepared for typical answer you want to hear from me, so that i am capable of only giving that answer. At the end, Interviewer: “what's your greatest life's accomplishments”. Again a typical…

I was working as a security entertainment manager in Las Vegas until January. I got stuck out of town due to COVID-19. During this time my two supervisors were fighting with eachother. When I got back I sat down with my big boss who told me that they were removing all security managment positions. This came with a pay decrease and a loss of title. Before I left on my family emergency, I brought up dangerous health conditions for my security team (For example too loud music, and dangerous chemical usage). I came back to the demotion and pay decrease so I quit. Should I have done anything to complain against the company?