Antiwork

I have been working from home since the Covid stared and now it has been already 2+ years. I work in software development and basically all I need is my PC and MS Teams. The company seems to have accepted that remote working is here to stay and has not made any plans yet about bringing us back. There has not been any major drop in productivity and everyone (i.e., management) is happy with how things turned out. There have been several surveys in the meantime about working from home and most of employees are happy with it and reasons for it are mainly spending more time with family and spending less time on a daily commute. HR and management have done some trainings about work-life balance and that is all. Everything is fine and keep-up-the good work But lately I am thinking more and more about how there aren’t…

I have only had a handful of phone interviews since April last year which of course is the only time in my life I’ve ever had phone interviews. Each time I’d apply, get an email to setup an interview time, the HR person would call on said date/time and conduct the same in person interview questions via phone. Not complicated right? Ok what are the odds that two different prospective employers ghosted me on the same day? I sent both of them follow up emails with no response. It’s already past 9am today still with no response from either. Do I send another follow up emails to them? What the fuck man. I swear my entire job hunt has been a nightmare. Has this ever happened to anyone else? What did you do? Before I get a flood of did they have the right number blah blah blah yes dude…

I supervised over 100 college students for evening and weekend events for over 4 years. We used When to Work which basically uses a computer to schedule people when they say they CAN work. You enter shift times, and it schedules people. If they set their availability wrong they are responsible for the shift. If an emergency comes up, we use the system to find a sub. It is so easy, and solves so many issues. I just don't understand why so many of you still deal with manual scheduling that can become problematic with lazy managers that don't think ahead.

So my best friend for a long time is working in the same field as me now and has a same level job. I earn 5 times his salary with basically the same job and experience. I work 8 hours a day on a flexible basis, he has minimum 2 hours a day to do and basically no limit. This ends up in him working 6 to 9(pm) everyday, even weekends, holiday and during a trip even if he took a day off. His manager expects him to do this work and also not to tell HR that he his doing so much because -jokingly- “then he would maybe get a raise and they couldn't be able to afford such an amazing employee”. He has no rights to get any overtime back since it is stated in his contract and he doesn't inform HR. I don't do overtime except if…

I let my manager know I wanted to promote out of overnights by myself and instead of actually teaching me day time operations. He gets upset with me as to why I didn't do extra work such as putting away an order. I feel like they're just using me at this job and have no intentions of building me up. I have requested to change locations because of this.

i was heavily pressured into getting a very low paying part time job ($13 an hour/ 25 hours a week) that is around 15 minutes one way from my house. the only reason i interviewed was because the indeed ad said $16 an hour and full time, but when i went in they said the best they can do is $13.13 an hour and up to 25 hours a week part time, with no guarantee they could even give me that many hours. the thing is i have a college degree and i calculated that even if i am working 30 hours a week, with gas and the time i spend driving, i will not even have 50% of what i need to pay my current bills. i do currently have an online business that pays me more than this job would. i have other jobs that are going to…