Antiwork

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…

Had a recruiter reach out to me today; I'm not actively looking for a job, but I'm open to changing jobs for the right environment, so figured I'd hear them out and see what they had to offer. Turns out, they want someone to do what I'm doing at my current job (and then some, I might add) for about $13 an hour less than I'm getting paid now. Insane. https://preview.redd.it/07at89b14hg81.png?width=972&format=png&auto=webp&s=54ff8e17bba462708aaeda1c3be286b36e71ec72 https://preview.redd.it/xmjtxg6y3hg81.png?width=972&format=png&auto=webp&s=10025772458f79d1d947337ff527ad871a8e1841

Background: Twelve years ago I was happily employed minding my own business when a recruiter reached out to me for what would have been a promotion and a pay raise. I went through multiple rounds of interviews and everyone liked me and I was excited about the job. A few days later they called with the offer. The offer: A lower title with less responsibility than I currently had. To make it even more enticing they wanted to pay me 10% less than what I was already earning. Needless to say this was not the promotion and pay raise they used to entice me to interview with them. My response: Gentlemen, Thank you for the offer for Sr. Consultant with your organization. I appreciate the time, effort, and attention that went into your decision. While I believe XXXXX has a lot to offer and opportunity to grow I do not…

Without getting too into details I've been busting my ass at work over the last 3 weeks. Had a new project come on line that is supposed to double the plant's income, I've been put in charge of making it happen. I've trained every single person that is working on this new equipment, I've been on the floor all shift every day not sitting in the office, some days I've gone from 6am to 1:15pm before I get my first break. My boss yelled at me today because apparently one of my coworkers is telling him I'm “never there, and I'm clearly not doing anything.” He's also mad because he saw me throwing cardboard in the recycling instead of training people. I was training them how to throw the cardboard in the recycling. I've worked so hard I lost 4 pounds in a week, and I've had 2 nights where…