Antiwork

It just shocks me how some people look at me with disgust when I tell them I do not enjoy working, I’m not working to have a great career or whatever, the only reason I work is to get money, and if I was a millionaire I would never work again. Like do these people not have hobbies, families, interests outside of work? Both my husband and I don’t like working but we do it to get money, not everyone is obsessed with climbing the career ladder. I hate office politics and caring about a company that doesn’t care about me, I don’t see why some people think this should be the norm???

In 2 weeks I have to find a job… He knows very well that I live alone and I have to pay rent/bills. For real now… This is the second job where I have been told the same thing. He repeated to me countless times that has othing personal with me, but still he made this decision…

I’m on an unpaid leave of absence because I got sick and needed to strengthen the fine motor skills in my arm. Nuff said. I have the Harry Potter movies on as background, and I’m thinking: Crap! This is just like what is happening to us now! (Especially “The Order of the Phoenix”: raise your hand if you have a Dolores Umbridge for a boss). Right now, people are desperate, only looking to support themselves and/or their families, while their health is slowly destroyed, and their hope needlessly chipped away. Some have committed suicide; others have been falsely accused and imprisoned, and all of us live with the FEAR. That’s the worst part, isn’t it, the fear that never seems to go away, or let us enjoy our lives. Our malicious employers seem to say that “there is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak…

She had been at a company since graduation, and for over 10 years, her manager became more and more abusive, to the point where my sister would call my mom and I crying most nights. The manager was so bad that the week of my sister getting in a car crash, she was still sending her work and deadlines even though she could barely walk or function and had the time off. A year ago she was hired at a new job and as soon as she put in notice, the manager and other department heads started to offer her more money and a better position, but she declined due to her mental health. As soon as she left, some of her old colleagues kept calling her saying that the manager was always bad mouthing her, belittling her new job and laughing at the fact that she left such a…

I worked at this company for nearly 5 years. To put things in perspective, they focus really hard on company culture and work/life balance (or so they say). I started out as a dispatcher and worked my way to an opportunity with the technical department as customer support. I had no technical background so wanted to learn as much as possible. At a certain point I asked if I could get some “on the road” experience. This meant they had to give me a car. I did say from the beginning that I was not planning on doing this permanently as I just wanted to help out a bit and learn from the experience. We agreed on doing it 2-3 days a week and revert to support on the other days. The time went by and I was being sent out more and more. Getting less support days and going…

My current work is saying I need to give 1 weeks notice per year I worked there. In my case 5 years = 5 weeks. Feels like too long, ideally would be hoping to give 2 weeks notice. I am worried that if I don’t meet their terms I won’t be able to be paid out my leave that I have accrued. They haven’t told me otherwise, but I am curious if I have any right to that money or is it just a nicety on their end to pay it out to leaving employees?