Antiwork

So HR at my (UK office) workplace sent out a new holiday request form. It's bureaucracy gone mad as it's a physical piece of paper when the old way was just forwarding the email chain of me asking for time off and my manager approving it. So I print the form, fill it out, get my managers signature (who's still working from home due to covid), scan the paper document, email the scan to HR and ask them to confirm everything is filled out correctly etc. I've heard nothing back from HR. Is it so difficult for HR to reply to emails? Guarantee if I do something wrong they'd be on my back instantly. Now that I've a question they just ghost me. They don't even answer then phones. Is this normal? Is all HR departments like this? Can I complain about it to HR? How would I even do…

Mine said “business opportunities don’t wait for holidays to be over”. The fuck?!?!?!

I’ve been going back and forth about sharing a poem I wrote in 2018. It fits the theme of this sub and I saw someone else shared one recently so I figured I should share mine. It’s titled Cereal is on Sale and I read it almost every time I do a poetry reading event. Also excuse the lack of punctuation. I originally wrote it on my phone and never went back and edited it. Tagged nsfw to be safe. Edit: fixed formatting. Stupid Reddit app on iOS. My body has resorted to autonomy due to the monotony of my routines Corded like the umbilical still attached to mommy in biblical proportions My view of this reality is distorted because I can’t afford to stop feeding off the titties of these corporations I have to relinquish myself from their visceral grasp that has me locked in like a parent holding…

As the title states, how do you guys respond to this question? It aggravates me to see “we offer a competitive salary” in the job description, and pisses me off even more to then be asked what my salary expectations are. Since I am in dire need of a position in my field that has a minimum monthly salary (I'm a third-country national in Europe), I usually bend over backwards and give them the minimum that I'm legally required to earn in hopes that I'm offered something before I go absolutely broke. I am curious how the rest of you, perhaps especially those of you secure in your field with experience or greater leverage, tackle this bullshit?

Are you in a labor union/political party? What union/party? What are some problems you’re running into? What are some solutions to the problems you’ve had with them? I get the feeling many of us would like to do stuff IRL, but we don’t even know where to begin. Let’s start here and talk about some common pitfalls and solutions to the pitfalls!

“Thank you for taking the time to meet with [HIRING MANAGER] and our team.” Really, you couldn’t even bother to put the name of the hiring manager. Just copy pasted? F u.