Antiwork

My Mum says this, my Dad says this, every boomer I come across says this. I'm fucking sick of it. My Mum stopped working at 28 to be a stay at home parent, their “hard work” including the horrible concept of “mowing peoples lawns every Saturday until 1pm to save up for the deposit”. Their idea of doing it tough was “One time we had to sell our camera”. I'm a professional business man earning a decent salary. My wife also is in a professional career earning a decent salary. Combined we CANNOT afford a fucking deposit. We save and save and save but even if my entire wage was put aside, it still can't keep up with the rising house prices in my country (Australia). I would need to be earning over $200,000 p.a before tax to beat rising house prices. No amount of fucking Saturday morning mowing will…

Mostly just venting. I've worked for a call center since 2017. Started out as a Representative and worked my way to Lead within 2 years. I'm an ideal employee. I work hard, I've rolled with the punches when they switched us from one major software to another and then back to the original software, changed our center's department from general support to new account support and now to retention. I have assisted with training new representatives and new leads. I have stepped in for a Supervisor when they were gone for a few days to take care of their team and fill out the daily report. I communicate my time off requests. I do a lot of overtime. I was the first Lead to be pulled back to supporting the representatives right after the transition; I didn't even complete training fully before they pulled me but I did a damned…

Last month I finally quit the job that’s been making me miserable for the last 3 years. I started a new job in the same field (I’m a vet tech) and it turns out… I just hate working. I hate my job, I’m tired of aggressive cats and dogs, I’m tired of clients who can’t/won’t take care of their pets (owning pets is a luxury, NOT a right), I like some of my coworkers but the few I don’t really just ruin my day. I just can’t take it anymore. I’m a student as well, and these 40-50 hour weeks are seriously interfering with my schooling and the new job won’t accommodate my schedule needed (I was hired for 4x 10hr shifts a week, but I’m being scheduled more than that and when confronted, they make up some excuse about why it won’t be changed… or when I change my…

Just got done interviewing with a company offering $5k above market rate for my position. Somewhere in the tail end of the interview they let me know that they don’t provide free parking and that the best option is to pay $15 a day at the parking lot across the street IF you get in before 8am… The job is 9 to 5… I asked what the situation was after 8am… they said “usually around $25.” So I’m expected to shell out $3k-$6k a year for parking! Gonna try to negotiate that increase otherwise, I’ll be taking my talents elsewhere.

Tomorrow is my last day. They threw me a potluck and I had to sit there and smile like I was happy. I was brought in temporarily through an agency on a contract as an Equipment Technician. We basically cleaned and prepped equipment for the hospital. The opportunity to hire me on was there when one of my coworkers retired, but they hired someone else already in the hospital system. I felt so betrayed. It made no sense to me especially since I've been here since last April. Throughout that time, my supervisor would always aske if I wanted to get hired and that I'd be the first candidate to be considered should a position open up. I wasn't even given the chance to apply before they hired someone else. So there I was today having to listen to my supervisor tell all my coworkers how great of a job…

Currently I am a business student in college and for my minor I am taking a class that is based on criticizing capitalism. It’s quite an odd combination learning how capitalism is not the best system and then going to my next class and learning how to play the system for my benefit. One thing that has been clear in both classes is that capitalism isn’t sustainable. There are many situations when capitalism can no longer work on its own. The pandemic has been the most recent example with a massive number of buy outs given to massive companies. These companies are worth millions of dollars why do they need government funding to stay afloat? In capitalism you either are making money or losing money. All of these companies that received bailouts had no reserve money because they constantly invest their profits in risky endeavors. So instead of letting the…