Antiwork

Per title: I work for the county government, across the street from City Hall and five minutes away from the state capitol campus. I make around double the state minimum wage. I can't afford to independently live anywhere nearby and it's driving me crazy. I'm 30 years old and working a job that requires the applicant to have some familiarity with plumbing, mechanical, electrical, carpentry, HVAC, and basic troubleshooting. Any apartment that's in my price range has an income limit – probably calculated to ruthlessly suck up any left over spare change from someone that gets housing assistance. I'm lucky I have an arrangement with family members to be able to live in the area but it's rough because of the personality clash. I'm one of the newer guys on this maintenance crew so my word means squat, but I've brought up to management that if they want to retain…

Hey Billy, happy to say I won't be in the office today because I'm feeling too good to be sitting in my cubicle and responding to emails and answering phones. The weather outside is just too nice to pass up the opportunity to enjoy some ice cream and go to the lake and feed the geese. Not sure how long this positivity will last, but I will touch base with you in a few days. If I start to feel a slump however, I'll be able to return to work and endure the monotony that that is. Thanks for your understanding and I don't apologize for the inconvenience!

Me and my parents were discussing about how so many fast food restaurants/typical chain stores are always ridiculously understaffed 24/7. These multi-million dollar companies like McDonalds, Burger King, or Arby’s obviously have the ability to hire many people and fund such things. But time and time again they hire as few people as possible to run a store and pay them as little as possible. I’m assuming they do this to maximize their profit. But at what point will people continue to agree to this bullshit? They might as well just hire robots at this point.

I'll keep this short as possible. English is not my first language. I've been fighting for five months with my supervisor to attend a 3-day training program and have the company pay it. It would benefit my work extremely and I would be certified to take up additional tasks that I am not allowed to do currently. It was a lot of back and forth, and my supervisor kept saying “if we pay it for you, everybody will want the training”. As far as I know I'm the only employee who has ever requested a training program, everybody else just does minimum work (which I should do, too…). After talking a lot to HR and even the CEO, having to sign a specific contract and a lot of other paperwork, I actually got the program approved. Yay! I thought, that was it. But today, I got an e-mail from our…

The scene in the first season where Tom takes Greg out to dinner perfectly explains why the rich will never change. Greg asks why the wine menu doesn’t have prices listed, and Tom explains that the prices are obscene – but it doesn’t matter. He’s rich, he can do or buy whatever he wants whenever he wants and that’s what he loves about being rich. There is no cutoff point in wealth for the rich who think like this, and unfortunately most of them do. They genuinely do not give a fuck about what happens to thousands of people in poverty in their companies, as long as they can keep buying wine without even seeing the price.

I work at a store and every shift I get 15 min or 30 min breaks. It depends on the amount of hours that I’m working. If I work 5 hours, I get a 15 min “break”. How the fuck is this an appropriate break time? It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to eat and go to the bathroom. I hardly have any time to actually sit down from my cashier job that requires me to stand for hours. Started to see how long I can extend my breaks without my manager noticing. So done with being exploited like this. Does anyone else have similar experiences with these tiny “breaks”?

There were so many discussions about work, time, balance, big bosses e.t.c. But I faced a lot of problems in middle management as well. Stupid people, countless talks. It's really annoying. So people think they talks make value? No, they are not. I used to be a developer for a long time, switched to management position and I want to say that people are really disconnected from the main workforce. And it's really true. I am not saying everyone, but 99% of them just think that their 1-1s, talks, talks about vision bring something to the company. But the truth that nobody notices if they disappear. Moreover being a developer is not so funny like many think. You develop your skills, grow your career, make a product and… some manager tells that company doesn't need it, or that you, your team should use 10-15 year old technologies instead of you…