Antiwork

Rant incoming. I’m 26F and my boss is 51F. We work in accounting. Her parents inherited multiple properties and spent their lives managing these rentals. As a result my boss grew up quite well off and was lucky enough to have her college paid for in the 90s by her parents. Recently I’ve been struggling with funds. I’m in the painful process of finding a new rental I can afford. My boss is aware of this because I’ve warned her I’ll be moving soon enough. While I’m happy she is open to me taking off time for my move, her unnecessary comments have really irked me. She asked why I don’t just “buy a house”. I explained to her that as it is, I struggle to afford studio apartments. Then she told me “well, you should try shifting your funds around. When I graduated college I made $12 an hour…

Not a normal anti work story, I just think it's funny. Story short, most of our team got laid off last year and rehired as contractors (Wall street politics). This actually worked out super good for us. One draw back is our certifications were all lost. Meaning we have to retake a bunch of courses to do some of the things we need to do. What is killing me right now is that I have this piece of software we use and I'm taking the curse on it. It's an instructional video that I made. To be fallowed up by a quiz that I wrote. Just have to wrap this up so I will be certified to use this program.

I turned 50 last week. I live in the US and have been working full time for over 35 years now. I started working at 14 years old. Nobody told me not to do that, to enjoy my youth and free time before a career and responsibility laid upon me like a weight I could never shake. No, I was encouraged to get a job because if my parents and grandparents worked 12 hour days in their teens, I should do the same, right? Of course not, but if you didn't, you were seen as lazy and the adults that surrounded you had no issues screaming that in your face. In my 20's, I worked a lot because I was a fool that believed that working hard got you everywhere. I wasted hours, days, weeks and probably months, working overtime for companies that never gave me raises, promotions and in…

Hey, I’m wondering if anyone on here works remotely, on a salary, and has had a power outage? How did your manager handle that situation? Did they take away a vacation day?

From someone else, but owners and bosses shouldn’t expect you to “work as hard” as them if you don’t own equity in the company.

I once worked as a bookkeeper for a realty/property management firm. I was hired to start at $15/hr then would get $20/hr after first 2 weeks of proving myself. When I started, I had trouble finding someone to onboard me. Manager would assign someone to show me how to do something, but then they would be busy with their own work and not really spend much time training me. I was hired to do bookkeeping. But they had me doing something different every day. One day I was preparing letters of rent increase for the property management company. Apparently this office we worked at, and I was bookkeeping for, was a combination of several different companies run by the same people. It wasn't even clear to me which company I was working for, there were several involved in this office. Somehow an ex-politician from nearby was also involved, maybe he…

I feel like I am going crazy. Several months ago my firm engaged a photographer to take our headshots. Except, this was no professional photographer. Friends, this guy literally counted to three and then took a photo. He would reset after every photo. He also did not know how to direct someone to frame them nicely for a shot. As for my firm, think of a stuffy profession similar to white shoe law firms where everyone thinks they are special and bred to be leaders on the Earth (eye rolllllsssss). I modeled when I was younger (no college debt thaaaaaaanks) but it was always athletic or active swim wear as that was where I got the most work as I am pretty fit and tall. So think PG catalogues – never did anything risque or remotely fashion forward. PS commerical models such as I was can make a ton of…

I’m overhearing this conversation with 2 old people (very loudly I may say) about how no one wants to work. The lady is retired and she worked at mc Donald’s and the other man I assume is a construction worker. They are both appalled that people don’t wanna work for 15. (They are making it seem like so much fucking money) How are they not struggling? How are they so out of fucking touch? What the fuck is going on. Irritates me.