Antiwork

I am putting in my resignation today with my direct supervisor. My contract requires a months notice, which my contract states will be honored by the company. The company I work for is old, and from past experiences I’ve noticed a ton of red flags for a failing buisness with this place. I also have to use my own vehicle (I do outside sales) I get $400 a month in reimbursement, and have a gas card. However for what I make and the reimbursement compared to car prices right now I just can’t justify it. I would probably try to negotiate and hang on a little longer, but the guy who runs the store front my office is in throw tantrums like a little child, and talks to me like I’m a piece of shit. He is in no way in charge of me other then I have to rely…

I work for an automotive company, recently found out I might not get my check this week due to a payroll error and if that’s the case I won’t have the gas or money for a bus to make it to work next week which will, in turn, make me lose my job. I have rent due in 2 weeks as well. Have already talked to my boss about it and she said she’d “look into it” but chances are it’d be back-paid once I get my check next week and was overall really dismissive about the whole thing. Not really sure what to do here.

I moved to a new job last year, and for the most part it's not bad. I've accepted that to be a part of our current society, I have to work. I've got hobbies and a cat to support. That being said, this subreddit has changed my perspective on a lot of things. They're trying to get us to dress up for St. Patrick's day and take pictures for a “team collage” for spirit and all that nonsense. I vaguely considered wearing something green, until an email we got yesterday. They're trying to encourage us to wear green and send in pictures to win Irish tea bags and Irish baked beans. Screw that. I'm not wearing a bit of green today.

If that’s the right choice for someone and lets them escape a dystopian labor system, cool! But it’s not a solution to the problem of firms scheming to deprive the vast majority of their labor of a reasonable salary and benefits. And, frankly, I find the number of recent posts celebrating labor models other than employees getting their fair share for dignified work somewhat suspicious. “Try to be your own boss!” is no substitute for employers not being sociopaths. And not what anyone has to achieve to deserve dignity.

So I just had an unsolicited phone call from a recruitment agency asking what I was looking for. I explained that I was doing a degree in my spare time and that I was looking to either move into a basic role in the field that my degree is in or a more senior role to the one I'm working in now. I have no interest in moving sideways for the sake of moving sideways at the age I am and while having a mortgage to think about. The agent basically told me that the job market is so full that all the senior positions would only look at people with prior experience, and there are no basic roles without this also. I can't get experience at my current company as the person above me is a lifer, and also my company is not somewhere I would want to remain…

Close to where I live is the Tesla Gigafactory in Germany. Now I obviously have never seen the one in the USA in Person, but I've heard they tend to really overwork their workers. Decent pay, but shit conditions essentially. Now looking at the one in Germany, they are offering above average pay (for Germany), 30 days vacation a year (kinda standard really also paid obv.), 40 hour work week (German laws don't allow for overtime that isnt replaced with comp time outside of very specific circumstances) and due to how Unions here work every worker is automatically under the umbrella of IG-Metall union. They still make a profit doing this, else they would not have build that thing here. And they are paying more taxes here than in the USA. So never forget, it is absolutely possible for these companies to offer decent working conditions. They just trained the…