Antiwork

I started watching the new series and can relate too well (through personal and friends’ experiences). The solidifying of the “work self” as a person who exists separate from my real self and the fact that businesses want that work self to become the dominant half feels too close to home. It’s got that glorious satire of Office Space, but that takes second chair to the allegory of the modern work space and the toll it plays on our psyches. There’s so much to unpack from the first two episodes, but I won’t ruin anything. I’m curious what others feel. And do you think it’s anti-work? (Or do we have to wait and see?) Some time back someone asked for anti-work movie recs. So far I’m feeling this may be at the top of my anti-work TV shows.

So this morning the manager I report to yelled “Don't tell me how to do my job!” at me when I told him the justification of the color I used is that it's in accordance with the brand guidelines. Not because the design didn't serve its purpose, not because the design was not up to standards , but because he doesn't like the company's primary color. It's not the first time he has done this. He told one of the programmers they shouldn't be telling him what to do when they wanted to upload the website to a live dev server so that relevant people in the company can help check for errors. His argument that even in this dev server, the website has to be perfect and error free.

I am a speech-language pathologist working at an Early Intervention agency. For the first year of the pandemic, we provided all services via video call, which worked pretty well since our focus is on coaching families to utilize strategies in daily routines with their children. We started doing in-person visits with families last year, but at least one of my coworkers is fully remote for the foreseeable future due to an undisclosed health condition. My husband was recently diagnosed with cancer and will be starting chemo soon. I asked to be fully remote in order to protect him from exposure to COVID as he will be vulnerable to severe complications if he gets it while undergoing chemo. My employer sat on the decision for two weeks before telling me “no”. The only reason I got for the denial was that they were concerned about the precedent it would set… I…

So our household has been working a lot less and I’ve been looking at some ways to reduce costs. One thing that has helped me stop spending little bits of money on useless plastic things or fast fashion is growing plants , taking cuttings, collecting seeds. I’ve realized a lot of my past spending was out of boredom! I also think we didn’t have time to pursue hobbies so I got all my feel good chemicals from consuming.

TLDR: Manager told me to work 6 days this week so I called his boss and he yelled at me, but graciously gave me a day off. The long version: I came into work this morning and my coworkers were trying to figure out who was supposed to fill in for the Saturday guy's shift because he requested off. They told me it was me, which I didn't know about, but that's fine I don't have a problem working a Saturday. The Saturday guy said “You probably should have been off today so you should pick another day to have off” so I decided since Wednesday is usually slower I'll take that day off. I went into our manager's office and said “Hey they just told me I'm working this Saturday. What day should I take off?” to which he responded “Actually, unfortunately you don't get a day off.” I…

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Is it a red flag in when asked over the phone about scheduling an interview. I asked about the salary. He replied, “Don't worry about that. We will make stacks. In the moment this sounded great, looking back, it's the first red flag? 2. I applied to this job twice by mistake. Lady calls me to schedule interview. She uses the same lines to get me to agree to interview as the first guy.