Antiwork

People don't quit jobs, they quit managers. Shitty pay is the fault of management, shitty conditions are also the fault of management. Place the blame where it rightly belongs

Sorry for this little rant but I had to let others know that you're worth it and learn from my experience. ​ About 2 weeks ago I started a full-time internship for 20 weeks at a pretty cool startup. Unfortunately my school was a bit slow with handing me the contract for me and the company to fill in. Therefore I already started unofficially, but would make it official once the contract was signed. At the job interview I made clear that I earned about 350 euro's a month which I thought was a fair compensation (still not enough, but that's an entire different discussion). When mentioned it seems he agreed, and that was the last thing we talked about the compensation. Until today. Today my school caught up with me, gave the contract for us to fill in and hand it in back to my university so they could…

The title is pretty clear. A critical path team has had hilariously high turnover. 3 – 6 months per person tops, except for me, I chime in at 18 months. When I say critical path, I mean the company WILL fail. Not immediately, but clients will not renew because we will look completely incompetent and fail to meet our contractual obligations. With such high turnover, the knowledge of how these systems work is already fading in to the history books, lost forever. They have a very small window of opportunity to turn it around before it is too late. The cost? A million… probably less… $750k-ish a year to sprinkle around to turn 5 digit salaries in to strong 6 figure salaries, or double digit bill rates to triple for consultants. They are delusional. They are ignoring what is happening right before their eyes. They can fix it simply by…

Couple weeks ago we had new CCTV cameras installed in our office. There is already cameras at the exits of the building, and 2 in the warehouse area, which I think is fairly common and reasonable, for security/insurance purposes. Now we have 9 new cameras installed, all at work stations or inside an office, watching people, not stock or products. We each received a memo saying that the new cameras were for protection of the stock, since the warehouse is becoming busier and more full of products, and such holds more value. This is a pitiful excuse anyway since cameras already all the entrances/exits and the warehouse area, but to claim this while a camera now stares at me all day in an office, with no stock being held at all is just lying. For the first week or two nothing happened besides a few comments about “big brother” and…