Antiwork

Preface: I work from home for a massive mortgage company based out of California. I am a Sr. Loan Processor. We have been demanded to work 6 day weeks ever since the Covid housing boom started – even though when we were hired we were promised we would only have to work 1 weekend per month. I have averaged 50+ hours a week, and give up a lot of my personal free time to be available nights and weekends as that's when borrowers are usually home and able to answer questions and submit documentation to complete their loans. I just got off of a conference call where 29 people including myself were mass fired. Apparently we don't even deserve a one on one anymore, as we were lead like lambs to the slaughter of our livelihoods. This was just one in a series of mass firings, but it really caught…

Do you pity people who work towards career goals? For instance, someone who is going through residency to be a doctor. Do you think society would be better if those people didn't work towards career goals? Would-be engineers or doctors simply decided to tune out of society and “idle.” What is the problem with having to earn a living? The default human condition is one of suffering and struggling for survival. The ability to be lazy and survive is an extremely new condition for our species. Why are you entitled to the labor of others when you yourself do not want to work? For instance housing, if you want free housing then who exactly pays for the labor of all those people who built, maintained and designed that house? Who decides what is fair in terms of wages and labor? If you ran a business would you be the employer…

Lived in the property for 5 years and this will the 3rd increase. The other 2 were manageable but this is fucking ridiculous, ive not had a payrise for 3 years now. How the fuck is this even allowed?

I’m a first line manager at a new org with my company. I won’t disclose the name but it’s a large legacy corporation in America, and has been around for a very long time. Anyways, we have this asshat mid-level manager that’s on loan to “help” us. He’s 2 levels of leadership above me. He’s also got a reputation of bad leadership and spilling his vices over into the work place. The asshat is not over our leadership team in the org charts but someone even higher up gave him that authority. He is constantly in my business, questioning my production status and then makes decisions behind my back that affect my teams. He’s really bad at micromanaging and gets turned around with the narrative he’s got built up in his head. He berates anyone for sub par performance in front of other senior leaders. He also defers blame to…