Antiwork

Title text. This can’t be a normal feeling is it? And then when I get paid this Friday All my money will have to go to rent. So I am essentially working for free this week 🙂

I have a project manager who is utterly useless and does work / make decisions at the very last minute. She recently joined this year and the first time she contacted me (chased me for a non-urgent matter which she could’ve found the answer to if she asked someone else), I was on sick leave. I got irritated, answered her question, and told her to not contact me again on my leaves. However, she still continues to do so. On weekdays I get non-urgent texts as late as 12am (I work 8am-6pm). I get contacted on the weekends as well. These days I have just stopped responding to texts beyond my working hours. However, it comes across to them that I lack initiative or drive. I am constantly left feeling angry and anxious whenever I get a notification from anyone at work beyond working hours (regardless of choosing not to…

Not sure if anyone follows or has heard of Codie Sanchez. She is pretty prominent with this idea of quitting corporate America and taking her corporate skills in private equity to buy boring businesses link laundromats and car washes. Recently she posted a tiktok hating on quiet quitting and stitched it with a guy boring for well water from what it seems covered in mud. I just think its mad ironic that she is advocating against quiet quitting but yet she encourages people to buy businesses. A lot of people quiet quit because after 5pm they work their own side hustles. All these influencers talking about not having a traditional 9-5 are hating on the same employees in their businesses. Kevin O’ Leary had a tiktok and boy is he getting flamed for it. https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez/video/7136758011812695342? ​ https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinolearytv/video/7136748485453434155?

Yesterday I had a mandatory meeting, on a Saturday. It went as shitty as I thought it'd go. We even got to bid on new shifts, which means, being new to the department, had the least amount of seniority. So tomorrow I get to find out if my schedule changes to one in which I'd be dealing with rush hour traffic every day, giving up my 4/10 schedule and spending 45-90 minutes in traffic vs the 20 minutes I currently have now. On top of that, my employer hammered into to us what we are doing wrong in the workplace and has decided that we have several hours of downtime at work, so, they appointed new tasks that essentially makes our current tasks double redundant. Instead of logging in events once, we now do it twice, in separate formats. This basically doubles our workload and will ensure data entry continues…

I hear different things from people who have remote jobs. I see some jobs only take 2 hours of work and the rest of the time they do what they want. Then there are other jobs where you are constantly being busy, being tracked by cameras, having mouse movements monitored, etc. All that sounds really creepy to me and I never want to work for a company like that. So I want to know how busy are you really when you work from home?

This happened a few months ago, it’s just taken me some to get to terms with what happened but now I’m feeling enraged that I let it happen. I had booked time off in advance, which had been approved. This was due to my dog being very sick, and I had an appointment booked with the vet to have him put down. It happened, and I had decided to bury him myself so as I was loading him back into my car to return home work spam me with calls saying it’s an emergency and I had to come in. I just hung up. I wasn’t emotionally capable of anything at that point. I was almost home, maybe a few streets away when my boss called again and I picked up. He said if I did not come in to work I’d be fired for ‘insubordination and being untrustworthy’. I…