Antiwork

This is a bit of a different perspective from most of the posts here. I'm a software engineer. It's a small company and a small team, but we built a great piece of software that I'm very proud of. The company was acquired last year because of it. I didn't know for how much, but the senior tech team was offered “retention bonuses” if we stayed for a year. It's basically a year's salary plus some stock options. Theoretically the options are worth a lot, but it's a private company. So they're basically air. Unless the company that acquired us gets bought or has an IPO, there isn't anything I can do with them. The cash part of that bonus means that my wife and I will be in a position to put a really good down payment on a house, which we've wanted to do for years but couldn't…

Hi there! I've been kicking around some ideas that I'd like to share just to get some feedback. It's a list of basic demands that all employers should match to be considered valuable as employers. I've included my notes underneath each entry. Basic dignity. An employee must not be compelled by threat of termination to wear something that makes them uncomfortable physically or mentally, impedes their work, or carries negative social perception within the company or to the public. (I used to work at a staples, and one of the back to school seasons my manager had a brilliant idea. He required employees to wear a backpack with school supplies in it, and when people asked about it, we were to sell them all the cool trendy supplies. The backpacks had no back support, weighed 5 lbs, and caused back pain. We looked stupid, and it didn't increase sales. The…