Antiwork

Listen. I just never understand why jobs ask for years (s) of being skilled in that profession. I think of it as “Ok let me learn something new for 1 year and wait 4 years to be 5 years skilled in this job.” Like wtf skills are skills, you shouldn't need to have more than 3 years to be skilled, people make mistakes along the way and we learn from them just like that. Simple. Employers should be happy that they got a person to uphold that job with just 1-3 years of experience.

First thing, the company I'm working for was acquired by another larger company in the same industry about 4 months ago. My new employers have been working my colleague and I to the bone to keep ontop of sales as well as inputting a huge data migration/ update. It's been effecting my life outside of work ontop of my sleep and mental health. My partner and I have now decided to move cities for a better lifestyle resulting in handing in my 4 weeks in notice. My colleague has since decided to do the same. I haven't got anything lined up as we've got enough savings to last a month comfortably at least. And this is probably the only time in my life I'll get to be be unemployed and not feel guilty about it. But today work pulled a last minute effort to keep me on part time remotely…

Went to a concert tonight, body is sore and can’t really speak at all. Supposed to work at [REDACTED] retail job, as well as my other job, resulting in a 13 hour day. I don’t know if I can, but I always feel terrible calling in and other team members getting huffy about it. I rarely call in, and when I do it’s for legit purposes :/. I just get in that mentality that calling off one day is a huge deal and inconvenience.

Long post, TL;DR at the bottom. I worked for a company for over 6 years that worked me to the bone. I was a senior software developer and team lead, and by team lead, I mean my manager made me act like the team's boss and do his dirty work. My team consisted mainly of junior developers who required my help 75% of the time. There were many times I worked over 50 hours a week, sometimes up to 70-80. My mental health was the worst it had ever been. I used to drive to work and think “a car wreck would be terrible, but maybe I'd get a mental break from work for a few days.” My anger and frustrating were greatly caused by my salary. It became apparent early on during my time there that new hires were making more than me. The final straw was in 2019…

I’m so tired. I’ve been unemployed for three years. I had to quit my corporate job in management due to some mental health issues in 2018. Sold my house just to get the time off I needed and moved to a new state for a fresh start. I’ve put in over 450 applications at every place I could even fathom working and have only gone on 5 interviews and still I don’t have a job. My boyfriend supports me while we live in his moms basement and I drive doordash for extras. The worst part is the day in and day out rejection. I see people on here everyday saying they quit for pay raises and I’m so god damn jealous I’ve cried a few times. I’m smart and hard working and put in 12 years, half of them in management and now I have nothing. I’ll work for 12…

Let me give some context first. I was hired as a shop manager for a local gas station/auto repair shop. It started me out at $13 an hour because I was fresh and just stepping in, but it would increase as I was told. Well every year we get a 1–2% raise and I got a dollar raise after a month of being there. So up until Friday I was making $15 an hour running the whole place, managing inventory, answering phone calls, keeping a schedule, operating full service, helping with repairs in the shop as needed, and running the whole facility whenever the owner wasn’t there (most of the time, a lot or all of these coincide at once). Well all of us in the shop started noticing that none of us were really making a whole lot of money for all of the work we did and for…