Antiwork

We had a meeting today in the office after work (on a Friday Evening!) where essentially I was told to work more while being paid the same. Didn’t even get paid for the time during the meeting. Wants me to come to work 20min earlier eventhough I won’t get paid for them. Wants us to take ‘leadership’ and ‘initiative’ and think of it as a second home??? So tired of this bullshit. Makes me feel so sad that I am probably 30+ years from retirement. Edit: a word

I was initially hired for the job 2 years ago (a outdoor nature day camp at a house of worship) but the camp was shut down due to Covid. Fast forward to last year when I reinterviewed and was offered the job again. I accepted and was excited because I hadn’t been able to work in about 6 years due to disability. It seemed like a good way to get back into working with kids, which I absolutely love. I’m overqualified for the job and they said they were thrilled to have someone who could institute arts programming on top of teaching. I was filling out the very invasive medical paperwork a few months later and put down that I needed an accommodation. In the case of extreme temps (90+ but fairly rare in this area) I might need to go indoors and cool off for up to 10 minutes…

The best job I've ever had, and I've had quite a few, was neither short hours, nor a decent wage. It was cultivating and harvesting shiitake mushrooms. What made it so great was that I worked alone 90% of the time, and it was in the mountains amongst nature. 40/ wk for 140,000 ¥/mo. (about 1,175$/mo), so like not really a livable wage for a grown-up with a family, etc…, but there was zero stress. It was physically quite hard work; carrying logs every day in the summer and cutting down trees, cutting them into 1 meter long sections, and hauling them out in the winter. Very strenuous work. The boss was almost never around, but there were lots of birds, flowers, snakes, frogs, etc… If I was really tired I would just lie down on a mossy patch of ground and take a little nap. I guess I'm just…

They insist that “stupid people” exist, and insist on the necessity of bashing them. Kinda almost like, abuse? A master-slave dynamic? How lovely.