Antiwork

I graduated with my Masters in Dec of 2019, landed my dream job then three months later was let go. Managed to get another one in my degree field and was let go four weeks in. Then my job world went on a hiring freeze (like many other firms in the middle of 2020) Until 9 months ago, I worked as a janitor at a concert venue at night and did remote customer service during the day due to my market being flooded with new applicants with newer degrees. By far these were the worst most humbling jobs I have ever worked and it gave me a whole new perspective on life. I would get yelled at for 8 hours straight then had to clean trash at night, almost treated as if I wasn’t a person for 16+ hours of my day. During that time I applied and interviewed for…

long story short my dept merged into another department. my immediate manager left a year and a half ago and ive been on a stipend bc ive been doing those tasks including my regular job bc no one else knew how to do any of my former supervisor's job. my department head is still relatively new and doesnt know how to do anything this new manager will be doing. my stipend has now ended and, although i interviewed for the manger position, i didnt get it. based on the announcement of the new hire the person coming on board doesnt have any experience doing the most of the tasks they have been hired to do. how do i tell my department head that i dont want to train someone who was hired over me to do the tasks i know but they have no experience with without burning any bridges?…

First, HR is there to limit corporate liability. They are NOT your friends or there to broker peace. They are there to make sure no one does anything to get the company sued before they can cover it up. Second, when they changed Personnel to HR, they literally made you a product, or “resource” which removes anything human about you in their eyes. Third, the “sweet caring” HR/”focused question” HR is the DUMBEST good cop/bad cop routine that no one falls for. I walked out of my last position and told them they were the most useless waste of planetary resources I had ever seen. (I had video of my supervisor using racial slurs and passing out from drug use at work. I was told I'm not allowed to record employees.) Why don't more people tell them they are useless?

It didn’t happen to me, but my brother used to work at Jersey Mikes as a part-time job. He worked about 6 hours a day, and a few more on weekends. However, his boss began to shorten people’s hours, saying “if you want more hours you need to be available more often.” He knew that my brother was going into this job with the intent of it being part-time, yet boss still lowered his hours. Needless to say, my brother quit. I thought that this story belonged here.