Antiwork

I worked as a paramedic for a local hospital and there has been positions opened since last year. My friend just passed the licensing examination and I told her to apply to the hospital. She applied and they really liked her. My friend has never gotten into any kind of trouble, has her degree and overall, a wonderful person. They offered her the job and she did all the HR paperwork that was needed. She was contacted by the background company and gave them the information that was needed. Everything looked great and she was very excited to start the job. Her father passed away and she asked HR if she could move her start date. HR had no issue with moving the start date. She was supposed to start yesterday and when she didn't show up for the shift, I found out that HR had called and told her…

And there's no info about it as usual. What on earth is going on here now?

Both my wife and I work. Pretty good paying jobs. She is a school psychologist and I am shop manager. But we will now be totally fucked. Rent is $2700 a month and child care is 4k. Just those 2 things is going to bankrupt me. I am trapped. Can't quit to stay home almost not worth it to stay. I want to have them in a good daycare instead of having some rando watch my baby and toddler and that is just the going rate around here. I already have picked myself up by the bootstraps and the system has crushed me.

I got to quit a job I have a brutal love/hate relationship with. Lots of ups and downs with my time at this company in my almost 8 years there. I’ll miss a lot of the great people I work with but life moves on. During my time at this place I’ve been passed over for a Director position twice, only to have the newest hire make 5 people leave in the last 9 months. He acted like a child when I gave him my notice! Hahaha only worried about what he was going to do. This man has failed to learn anyones position on the team and is in way over his head. The CEO acted like a normal human, wished me good luck and was understanding of the situation. He did look a bit worried. It felt so good to resign for better pay and a shorter commute.

So, living in Queensland I've been looking at some of the stories here with digust. The conditions Americans live under should be considered cruel and unusual punishment. I was inspired though, and wondered what I could get for myself. I'm currently paid AUD80k/yr as a system administrator. We're a small team and I'm a jack-of-all-trades, so I also do helpdesk, printer tech, developer, DBA and devops engineer stuff, and some QA when a developer insists that “there's nothing wrong with the code, it must be the infrastructure”. For my job title, my pay is probably about average, but I can find positions up to $120k. A 50% pay bump would be nice, and I might be an outside chance to convince the big boss to pay me that much. Then I went looking for DevOps Engineer. The further I scrolled, the more shocked I was. State Government for $112k, private…