Antiwork

I’ve always gotten the feeling that most of the people on this sub are living in poverty and/or are not financially well off. How many of you actually make 100K+ a year and are in a good place financially but still have a grip against your workplace and/or the system? What’s the field you are in and how do they treat you?

Recently I took a vacation to visit my snow bird parents. It dawned on me after I arrived that I could have stayed longer and worked from “home”. This has also changed how I date. Needing to commute and be at work made me not willing to date people that lived a good drive away. But suddenly I have realized I could date some one from the otherside of the country. I really don't mind it as much. The money I save not using gas can easily pay for flight. I can pick a cheaper day. I can work from “home” while visiting them with out the pressure of needing to drive and physically be there. Just a shower thought I had and another reason why most office or CS phone jobs should be remote. Not having to be there or navigate traffic has dramatically reduced stress for me.

I left my job that I was miserable in with proper notice last year, as my contract required three weeks notice and I had a family member who was transitioning to full time hospice care and I wanted to spend as much time with him as possible. The inevitable happened and he passed during the three weeks. I ended up telling HR I would stay on, but I’d like an extra week unpaid to grieve. They said they’d prefer I leave. So, good riddance. At the time, everyone I talked to said now was a great time to quit, that the job market was employees choice and easy to get hired. Maybe that’s the case if you’re planning to not get paid a living wage! My state is going to have minimum wage up at 15 within the next year, but places are still trying to start you way low.…

I've been working for the public endowment of a big university for 4.5 years and they always act like they're strapped for cash. The university has labs set up in public schools and community centers, where we teach science and agriculture. Recently they've been adding more work to my job without increasing my pay. I've been teaching classes on my own and writing new curriculum, which is not part of my job description. One of the classes I started teaching is a 6 week dairy education program. I thought this was going to be a one time thing but they're continuing the program and it's become a new part of my job. Initially I didn't bring up getting paid more for this work because I thought they couldn't afford it. I was wrong. In a meeting I was told that they have enough money to continue the program and they…

Okay so I'm from the Philippines and I was hired to teach English to Japanese students via online means. Pretty simple, right? Except they made me travel 25 kilometers (Cubao, Quezon City to Alabang, Muntinlupa City) just to be on site. Normally, I wouldn't mind the travel since I love exploring to new places but given how fucked up the transportation system in this country and the pandemic, it made things difficult. I had to travel for 2 hrs just to be there in that office. Things were great in that office, to be fair, and I jelled well with the fellow newbies but I kept on thinking how'll I go home. After our shift, the train there (PNR) was not running cuz an earthquake made them stop ops. Lowkey I was panicking since I have to take the long route just to go home. There was a car heading…

Idk if this belongs here, but when I was 18, my first job was working at a Chick fil a. I was working through the summer to save up for my freshman year of college. I live in Texas so the summers here are just face-meltingly hot, especially when you work for 6 hours in the outside drive thru of Chick fil a. I'm not sure if it's like this in other states, but here, our Chick Fil a stores are packed with people from open until closing so workers have to stand outside to take orders and direct traffic. I was one of those workers when I had a customer order over 80 dollars worth of food. He was short with me and snapped his order at me, complaining that the line was too long. Every time I would punch in a new part of his order he would…