Antiwork

I either get fired, or end up leaving. Family and friends tell me I’m lazy, although I don’t drink much alcohol or take drugs. I believe you are what you eat, so I try to stay healthy. And I play guitar everyday, I enjoy kickboxing and going to the gym. And Im relatively happy to be alive and experience this incredible world we live in. Unlike what seems to be the majority of the population. I need to surround myself with positive people.

I work in the public, constantly interacting with hundreds of people a day, and my boss cares so little about the health of everyone in the town I work for that she’s willing to put them at risk only 4 days after my initial positive test. She claims some people will test positive for months after getting it so it only depends on my symptoms, which btw, are not good or improving. So she’s pushing me to come back to work. What do I even say to that?

I recently took a job that was a massive step down in responsibility but a big step up in pay. During the training we're going through, we keep having to use this training system that was made 20 years ago probably by an intern. The trainers are going on about how bad it is but how hard it is to upgrade and they're looking into it. Interestingly I'm qualified to do this and it would be a one man job that would take about a year. I brought this up to my trainer and offered to put together a demo. Got told to stay in my lane. A few days later we're speaking with her boss and the class Puts the system I'm offering to upgrade on blast. So I speak with her about the proposal and once again offer a demo. Get told to stay in my lane again.…

Long story short I work on various forms of hospital equipment. Had an issue with a customer and talked to a doctor about their X-ray machine. It is down for the foreseeable future until I can get a replacement part. Had a short argument but he drove home “that machine averages 40 X-rays a day. We’re losing $15k everyday it’s down” so I crunched the numbers and given they’re a 24hr facility I can say that’s fairly accurate. So they’re charging essentially $375ish per X-ray. That makes more than 5 million annually produced by this machine. I don’t make anywhere near that, nor do I make anywhere close to even $100,000. Really puts things into perspective and now I’m feeling a bit like I need a raise or a new job

Hi all, been in corporate IT only about 7 years but I'm already pretty burnt out with it. The meetings, the fakery.. it's not authentic, no meaningful relationships and rarely meaningful work. It's a lot of jumping through hoops and following shitty processes. Not sure if I can hack it another 30 years, or.. I do put up with it and become a lifeless drone who's a shadow of a real person (which I can already feel happening) I know it's not all corporate jobs, I did have a placement year at a company while at uni which was great. I think it was down to the close knit team and managers shielding the politics and bullshit from us. Think I'm just having my life crisis now at 33, the thought of 30 years of this is soul crushing. I honestly was more content in a supermarket job when I…

I work in construction and the entire industry is a hot mess because they don't want to pay anyone enough. There is a huge need for estimators (my role) but they're still looking for people willing to work for 2015 wages. My manager left early in the pandemic and they refused to hire anyone else, even though we were already a skeleton crew with 3 people. Now I'm so fed up I'm looking at jobs and talking to hiring managers for what I actually went to school for, which is mechanical engineering. I was getting so depressed thinking of doing this stupid job even for another company so I had to branch out. I actually got a direct line to a hiring manager that sounds very interested in me and I'm so excited to finally have an opportunity to use my degree because my current job is beneath me. I…