Antiwork

There was this post about somebody’s friend suicide ranting how a manager is asking about a document. First of all, I am incredibly sorry for your loss, unfortunately I am in your shoes right now (my grandmother passed two days ago), under different circumstances though. It is perfectly normal (at least in most of Europe) for your employer to ask for certificate of death. Let me elaborate on this: in Europe(btw I work for an American company) you are allowed by law to get PTO in case of death, but in order for it to be paid you need to provide documents so the company can fix its legal issues with that PTO. Therefore, I do not understand what is wrong with the current situation. After all, it is in your benefit not to spend any of your PTO and to get PTO without any kind of approval required as…

If the 1.7m of us on here all started to actively try and recruit new members just image what we could grow the group to in a few years. Once there's enough of us our views would have to carry more weight as we would be able to start influencing elections and the like. Everyone here should see it as their duty to spread the word!

I work for a drug testing facility and boy let me tell you we have our standards set extremely high when it comes to our code and regulations but that doesn’t equate when it comes to pay. I get 15.50 an hour to deal with DOT regulations which doesn’t seem right. We have government regulations but don’t seem to get paid government pay. I’ve spoken with my boss about this and he kind of brushed it off so I think this might be time to leave.

i look at the future and it seems incredibly depressing and lonely. working, working, working just for some paper and indulging in hobbies occasionally and that's it is it? I live at home still and the thought of moving out in some shithole house or apartment alone makes me want to put a bullet in my head. The happiest i ever was in my entire life was living out of a backpack in south east Asia riding my scooter around and chilling with people in hostels, no where to be, no pressure or expectations literal just chilling. It felt so good and primal just hanging out with people in that way. I got back home and its been a downward spiral ever since and that was 2 years ago lol.

Besides working… how do we make money?

So I just got fired today…and I can't rant to anyone about this. I'm a quality system professional for a pharmaceutical company. I generally get paid about ~$40/hr in a permanent position but due to labor shortage contract jobs pay about ~$80-90/hr. I was contracted by this billion-dollar company for 2 years to fix their system. (Should be from 2021-2022 with a possible extension) I've been with them for at least a year and the current director who I report to is satisfied with my work. Due to multiple issues in different departments, my director placed me under a new manager a month ago. I already felt something was off two weeks prior about this new manager as she was nitpicking every project I've completed and I just shrugged it off. I'm not sure if she was jealous… Since I work for an agency, the new manager had to sign…