Antiwork

I'm in a hot field and get several phone calls from recruiters daily. Except these days is the hiring manager wants to schedule for late next week. Then the soft skills BS interview is another week or two out. I remember the days where you would do one interview and have a contingent offer letter waiting in my inbox. Now it's a six to eight week process. I've heard of two and three month interview processes. What a waste of everyone's time. Is it like that everywhere (even though due to the supposed labor shortage), or is it just that the more money you ask for, the longer it takes?

So I like Adam Sandler movies, more his early stuff than his recent stuff. I recently re watched click and realized it's the perfect antiwork movie. The whole time he neglects his family for work in hopes of a promotion and with the remote ends up skipping an entire decade to become what he was hoping would only be months away in the beginning. And this really made me think about the current job situation, I've stalked this sub for awhile and this movie seems to line up perfectly in that if you give up your home life for work you lose your home life which really is your life. If you watched the movie before you know the ending. Tldr don't waste your real life working and neglecting what matters. Period.

I just hate the owners, I hate the customers, I hate upper and middle management, I hate SOME of my coworkers, I hate the commute, I hate the fact that the only way I can get ahead is by working as much overtime as possible, I hate the waste, I hate the inefficiencies, but I like working with fruits and vegetables. Making them look pretty and trying to be creative. Edit. Just realized this is essentially a ripoff of 10 Things I Hate About You. Didn’t mean for that.

I see lots of posts about people lying on or embellishing their resumes and reaping the benefits, but has anyone been caught doing so? If so what happened and how did you get caught? Because this generally seems like it should be the standard with the amount of BS company’s ask for and require.

Things are different now, we can’t just raid a castle and steal the gold. How do people actually unite and fight back in a digital age? I’m interested in what an organized movement would look like. I’m a fan of dialogue, but it seems like dialogue is more effective when the next step is in the table… I just don’t know what that next step would be. Storming an amazon warehouse or Bezo’s super yacht wouldn’t accomplish anything

I'm preparing myself for a bazillion downvotes and angry messages, but I feel I need to post this at least once in this sub. I've been (mostly) lurking in this sub for a while now. I'm seeing an alarming increase in the amount of posts of people patting themselves on the back for being absolute jackwagons to the recruiters they're speaking to if the recruiter doesn't offer pay information up front. Or just generally shitting all over recruiters they have to talk to in order to find work. Yes, I understand that it's frustrating to talk to someone who gives you awful, vague answers. But it's frustrating for recruiters, too. In most companies, recruiters are just the messenger for policies they often don't agree with. It's only just in the last couple years that *some* companies are treating recruiting like partners instead of tools. We're told not to discuss ranges…