Antiwork

A screening call, a business case and now a third interview! What else do they need to know? What is the purpose of a third interview…?

I put in my two weeks on Monday. I had every intention of working out my resignation. Boss brings me into the office to talk about “rumors” she heard – she said people were talking and saying that I was telling people I was resigning because of her. She told me that people were saying that I was saying she made me cry. That she was just trying to run a business and that her approach was straight forward. None of that was true and I never told a soul anything of the sort. It’s a business, not a high school. There’s no reason for lies and drama, but there’s even less reason to put my integrity on the line and question me about something blatantly false. I’ve never been so insulted! I put my two weeks in because after almost 3 months of working there no one can bother…

As soon as I save up a little bit of money I'm buying a cheap piece of land somewhere out in the middle of nowhere and I ain't coming back! You can keep your 60hr work week and your million dollar houses. Im going to grow and hunt my own food and run around naked just like mother nature intended!

How do you fake being a different person everyday, 60+ hours a week in an office space. The fake laughing at co workers jokes, the forced small-talk, the forced overly positive attitude to your manager or your boss. Even worse is having to spend free time with co workers for happy hour or dinner.

They sent an email to my email saying that I had an invalid email, a month later might I add. I would’ve preferred no response. At least then I wouldn’t be confused. If they didn’t want me for some reason they could’ve just told me. Am I absolutely crazy or is that stupid. And this is in the wrong sub please tell me and I’ll take it down. I just didn’t know where else to post it. and if anyone is asking for proof sadly I lost it in my email because it’s full of so much junk and spam that I haven’t deleted. But I can try looking for it if anyone is genuinely curious.

So I got a M.Ed. in 2018…counseling and college student development. I did everything I was supposed to do. went to school, took my loans, did my internship, got charged fucking interest the whole time i was in school and every day since. NOT ONE SINGLE OFFER for even the most bullshit entry level roles paying not even 1/3 of what i owe Uncle Sam… they want 5-7 years experience in the same fucking jobs for which I have been pursuing. none of it makes sense, I'm over qualified and nothing good happens. so i decided to add a little extra experience on my resume and fired a few applications in. said fuck a cover letter, fuck demographic info, fuck retyping my entire resume into text boxes. applied for a decent title role in higher ed and listed my salary expectations about 20k over what i honestly expected. they called…

I’ve been a chef for 13 years, and I was offered a private chef job for an ambassador yesterday. Felt pretty proud that I’ve finally had these kind of offers thrown at me from people recommending me, until we got to what to compensation… They felt that I should do it for $16 an hour. With a background of cooking in 3 different countries in 5 different cities, they felt that was enough. I told them I can’t afford to work for that little and to find someone else. This is exactly why I am leaving this industry. There is no money in cooking food for people anymore. 13 years of training and experience in some well known restaurants for excellent chefs, and this is the pay I’ve had to work for for all of it. No more.

So this was a long time ago, back in 2005. But reading some of the posts here I decided to share my story. I graduated in 2004 with an engineering degree and after job hunting for the better part of a year I was approached about a job at a pipe mill where they make steel pipe. For the first interview which was really weird in hindsight but I did not know anything back then they flew me and a bunch of other people to Toronto and did interviews that day at the hotel airport. Second stage they flew like 20 of us to their plant in a smaller more remote community for on-site interviews and a tour of the facility. The recruiter from the first interview told me straight out if you get a second interview you will get a job offer so don't go if you are not…

I mentioned to my dad that my niece is going to babysit my daughter tomorrow so I can go to a local food project planning event. I said that I pay $15 / hour, because when I was a teenager my older siblings had me babysitting for slave wages. (At one point, 6 kids under 7, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, for $150 + room and board) So he drops this nugget on me. Excuse me, that's actually minimum wage in this state. I outright laughed and asked him if he thought that me paying one person on a rare occasion minimum wage to care for my child would really… REALLY? THAT WOULD BREAK THE ECONOMY. YES. YOU HAVE SOLVED THE ECONOMIC CRISIS. I could tell he was getting really uncomfortable so I ended the conversation pretty quickly.