Antiwork

Here’s what happened: A few months ago I was on zip recruiter applying for random part time jobs because I wanted a second job for extra money. Now, anyone who’s bulk applied to jobs knows that most employers don’t ever email you back. Normal. I got a couple responses, some rejections, some invites to interviews. This one job invited me for an interview. I didn’t get a chance to reply to them because I had a bunch of stuff going on, got busy, it just slipped through the cracks. SO TODAY!!!! Literally MONTHS later, I get a message from this hiring manager on ZR that says: “Want a pro tip? Responding to all hiring manager messages may boost your chance of landing a job”. Am I crazy or is this wildly rude? I understand that I didn’t respond to them but why message me almost a year later with that?…

Resignation agreement I signed says I won’t compete with them for 6 months. I'm being offered a job they would have gotten if I was still there, but now that I’m not they can’t do it, and won’t be able to until next year. I know they want to take that job and sub-contract it to someone they work with. Would that violate my agreement since they can’t do it without bidding it out?

I've received a job offer largely on the condition I start very soon. My current position is as a delivery driver at a company I'll likely never work for again. Is there any good reason not to quit the day before I start my new job?

My highly skilled team is being gutted in 3-waves of layoffs. On June 7th, we filed for a union election with the NLRB. Our hearing is scheduled for July 10th for four days. Yesterday about 11 AM, we all get a shady message to attend a mandatory meeting at 3:30. The meeting was a joke of a Town Hall where they announced our team is “ramping down” due to “the client budget.” We were also told that this decision was made on June 2nd, and that they had discussed the decision to move forward with our union attorneys, which we immediately confirmed was a lie. Nearly 200 of us, and they’re only planning to keep 40. To support a content knowledge base for a Top 5 Tech Giant. We’re obviously still organizing, supporting each other, and waiting for the NLRB’s ruling. I’m just so angry about the entire situation.

We live in one of the biggest cities, there are jobs everywhere but these coworkers have pigeon holed themselves into one industry and think I’m lazy af and crazy when I say “why are you stressing so much, if you get fired just find something else.” What they don’t know is that I literally just took this job to relax from my previous position which was vice president of a company I was also financially invested in. After working the hardest I’ve ever worked for years at that job, I knew I could coast at the job I’m currently at. They are always stressed about the dumbest things and put in so many extra hours that are just not needed. I do my job well but don’t go the extra mile, it’s funny to think they are working extra hours talking smack about me, meanwhile all my tasks are done…

A co-worker noticed a couple hundred extra bucks in his paycheck this week, but had no idea what it was for. Started asking around and learned that this is a bonus paid to him after attaining 30 years of service. Two hundred bucks in exchange for 30 years of his life. That's corporate America.