Antiwork

So, after 6 years the place I work at is shutting down our location due to them mis-managing, micromanaging, and generally doing literally everything they should not have done. We had a sister location close a few years ago after they did the same thing to them and decided to double down on my location. But I digress. On Monday (yesterday, February 28th) they informed us that as of this Friday we are closing permanently. Some will stay on another month or so to pack everything up. We had one-on-ones to discuss our individual final day. I was told flat out my last day is this Friday the 4th. I have made plans out of state with family to look at another area's job market. I have heard from two separate people today that they were told I am here until the middle of next month. I have also heard…

I was standing outside my company's HR office, waiting for my supervisor when I overheard a conversation that really put a fine point on the title of this post. HR Rep. 1: …they were saying that the teachers need a comfortable retirement. But you know what? That's not my problem. If the teachers didn't prepare for retirement, it's not my job to fix it. HR Rep. 2: Tch, right? Oh, you know what's even more ridiculous? This one guy asked for an insane amount of money. He wants a 50% raise! Can you believe it? HR Rep. 1: What? How much does he want? HR Rep. 2: He was making 29k, and now he wants 60k. [scoffs] I still can't believe he asked for that. There's no way we're giving him 60k. HR Rep. 1: Jesus… What is wrong with these people? HR Rep. 2: I don't know, man. My…

I've been on a job hunt since October of last year. In that time, I've wasted untold hours with companies who were either not serious about filling the position the listed, or just outright have lied to me about “having an offer prepared” Without exaggeration, I have now talked to 4 different companies that all followed up after interviews saying that they “had an offer prepared and were excited to move forward if I was still interested” Each time I replied “thats fantastic! Please send me a copy of the offer in writing and I'll review it by CoB.” (Read: an offer is legally binding if and only if its in paper, so unless a company sends you a written offer, they don't have an offer for you) With the most recent instance happening last week, ive now had 4 individual companies pull this bullshit on me over the last…

Three years ago, I took a job at a call center. It was far from my first choice, but when your options are “take a job from the only offer you got or have literally no other form of income”, it doesn't leave you with much of a choice. So, I went in, and their policy of “the two 15-minute breaks are off the clock” raised an eyebrow for me, but when the state Web site said “breaks do not have to be paid”, I didn't question it further. They also had a policy of “releases are based on who had the lowest QA scores” as an “incentive of employment” – which I still think is a scummy practice, but that's not why I'm here. Almost a year after that, I had a barrage of Karens that unfortunately killed my QA scores, and I was let go. Thankfully, I was…

There are a lot of things I could bring up to prove that she is a terrible boss… the time she threw her phone onto the ground because a customer pissed her off…. her berating and yelling at people who put in their two weeks and guilt tripping them. The way she changes her mind with no warning and gets mad at us for not instinctively knowing the new way she wants something done… But the straw that broke the camel's back was when I got an email from her this morning, reprimanding me for praising my closing crew for doing a great job closing last night. Apparently, I shouldn't praise my night crew because they will 'start treating their closing duties as optional', which makes 0 sense. I've already put in for a new job so hopefully I'll be free soon enough. Not putting up with her nitpicking negativity…

As a current engineering student, engineering is 110% an oversaturated field. I have seen others talk about how Honeywell gets like 100 applications for every engineering job opening. That does not sound like a field that has a shortage of workers. The vast majority of engineering students do not end up with a good-paying job out of college. Only the best of the best gets them, and those people include those who can get straight As through some of the most difficult classes in college and do a billion projects, research, and clubs on top of that. The vast majority of people cannot do that.

Like kindergarten

It’s like people don’t believe that your own personal life is more rewarding than your job.