Antiwork

I’m losing it. I’ll do my best to not make this a rant, but in the 8 months since I’ve graduated I have applied to hundreds of jobs. For context, I have a bachelor’s in writing and have been applying to any job that corresponds with my degree. Most expect 5+ years of experience, most don’t bother to get back to me, and of the two jobs I landed I was let go from one due to budget cuts, and the other is refusing to negotiate fair wages after a messy hiring process. I signed a lease two weeks before I was let go from the first job, and with a minimal amount of savings and student loans starting in May, I’m beginning to worry that I won’t have a place to live in the next year. Everyone close to me who I speak to about this tells me not…

I recently got offered a job with a guy I worked with in a previous job. I knew him and our personal relationship factored into this but I wanted to tell my story to give some people some hope in this dystopia nightmare. I received a message from the hiring manager saying that he saw my resume on ziprecruiter. He wanted to interview but he didn't want to inconvenience me so he insisted he buy me dinner at a Panera near my house and we could talk there. (Definitely out of the norm but still nice.) He straight up told me what he was offering salary wise and it was right around my asking price. No bs, no back and forth, no having to convince myself to take a lower offer because it is closer to where I live. Here is the best part. They are giving the person I…

My friend was recently promoted to management. He's a good person but man he's changed. I recently injured myself and had to tell them to take me off the schedule for a day so I could go figure out what happened. I message him from the doctor's office with my diagnosis. The very first reply is “do I need to take you off the schedule for tomorrow.” No expressing any concern for my injury which was bad enough that I left work early the day before. I'm the kind of person who NEVER calls out unless I'm in a hospital. It hurt my feelings a little but he's been much less personable and less empathetic as a boss. It doesn't help that the owner of the company is a sociopath in my opinion. She talks in a high pitched happy voice, as if she's praising a dog. But stand up…

I feel like this sub needs more international community discussions, as it is one of the most informative, active and decent places to talk about anti-work struggles for the unification of the common workers. I think it would benefit the general narrative if you, people from countries other than US, could share your perspectives, your grievances and your problems that led you to becoming curious in the antiwork movement. Guess I'll start? I'm a young (gen Z) office worker from CIS country where the usual monthly pay is around 400 to 500 USD and GDP per capita hovers just below 10k$. The minimum wage in my country is essentially 150$ a month, and people actually live on it here. I got lucky as I was born to a well-off family and could get a decent education, even had opportunity to travel abroad extensively, and now have nice career prospects. For…

This plasma donation center says they need more staff but I failed one question and I was kicked for 6 months to apply. I tried again and they won't hire me. Gee maybe get rid of the stupid test? I think just a thought

So to give some background, I have a roommate who works in the same department as me. We both requested off a week for a vacation we had planned. My company accepted my request off but not his. They said they can’t allow two people from the same department to be off at the same time so we canceled the trip. Well fast forward to today, he tests positive for COVID. I tested negative and was required to come in. Started to feel a bit shitty towards lunch and went home and took another test. I was positive. Now we are both quarantined for a week and will both be missing the exact same amount of time we would have been missing for that trip. They are requiring us to use PTO, the same PTO that would have been used for the trip lol. So now we get to see…