Antiwork

I have been working at corporate job for almost 5 years. I work in IT (I do everything from software engineering to coding, business analysis, release and project management etc) and I am really fed up of the job. Not because It is hard or anything but I should not have to explain same things to the same people all the time, dealing with the people who are not technical but somehow managed to work in IT (working on the technical positions without being technical) or the worst, people who are not open to learn new things and stick to the old ways of working as they used to (related with their job function). It's expected for me to deal with uncertainty all the time because business people don't know what they want. No matter how hard I try to seek alignment with them, It does not happen because “…

I don’t know if this goes here if it doesn’t feel free to delete. But I’m so overwhelmed, tonight at our monthly meeting we were informed that the owner of the company is going to start a very destructive constant hiring and firing campaign to try and make more sales. They believe that fresh faces are what it’s going to take to make the most sales. It has literally been admitted to all of the staff that they are highly expendable and that if they’re not making sales goals that they will lose their job. Sales is a small part of our business, and we’ve already sold the product we offer which is a membership to most of the community who is willing to buy it. And it’s not like they offer more products for us to sell. I’m between a rock and a hard spot right now because I…

Lately I've had a couple of larger companies pointing me to companies like Hirevue or Spark to do a digital interview for a position. You go sit in front of your camera and “audition” for the job by answering whatever questions they've added. Hirevue used to have some creepy stuff on their website about doing AI candidate assessment off of the submitted videos too. I've only consented to doing one (Hirevue) and it was intensely awkward. Overly broad technical questions with limited time to answer, no ability to record your answer again, and obviously no feedback from the other side. All for the promise that some hiring manager might decide to sit down and watch it. This was for a senior level engineering job, something that would have paid well over 100k, and they couldn't be bothered to screen with a person. So, I got another one last night and…

I get an email asking for someone to be a bus transport assistant. (Get on the school bus with the student to keep them safe/manage behaviors) the pay is such shit and the hours are longer. They're always begging people to do bus transport but don't want to increase the pay to encourage people to take the jobs. I always take joy when they ask me to do transport because the answer is always going to be no

I’m pregnant and parts of my job will need to change to accommodate that, as well as the obvious I may have appointments I need to go to thing, so I wanted to chat to my boss about it this afternoon. However earlier in the day a situation occurred, and I think he thought I wanted to quit. I work on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and I work by myself. My department should always have three people but currently it’s just me. There’s also someone that works Tuesday and Thursday. Next week a full timer was supposed to start but overnight last night she withdrew. On Monday, Tuesday girl messaged me saying she can’t work next Tuesday and asked if I could swap. I can’t, I already have appointments and my daughter isn’t in daycare that day. So I told her that, but with the new girl it should be fine.…

I was thinking about the McDonalds notification, encouraging their workers to not quit, once their tax returns arrive. On one hand, they know their employees earn so little that they will likely receive more substantial refunds since they’re technically under the poverty line, they likely also fear the sudden loss of exploitable income if their employees all quit after their tax returns give them a bit of wiggle room for a month or two. Idea. File your taxes early, this month if possible. Save that tax money, and keep working for whatever fast food or retail joint you may have in a similar situation, and then just quit at the very end of April without the customary 2 weeks notice. Let them feel the pain of their own workplace abuse, just in time for May Day! This is just an idea. I’d love to see opinions and ideas regarding this…

A page for the italian anti workers. I'll post it in the next post, because i don't know why the bots consider this post spam, without any apparent reason Potrebbe esserci, in Italia (come in qualsiasi altro pese europeo) la percezione che antiwork sia qualcosa di solo “americano”, che non ha niente a che fare con l'europa, qualche moda del momento dagli USA che svanirà presto. Non è così ovviamente, è qualcosa in cui qualsiasi paese è coinvolto e che non va percepito come qualcosa di “lontano da noi”. Condividete esperienze, confrontatevi e discutete di tutto quello che rientra nell'ambito del lavoro e del nostro sistema sociale ed economico. ————————————————————————————————————————————— There could be, in Italy (like in every other european country) the perception that antiwork is something only “american”, that has nothing to do to europe, some trend of the moment from the USA that will soon vanish. It is…