Antiwork

A little background: I work for a large lending company. We make money hand over fist. I am the manager of a fairly large department. (Probably THE largest). We have a corporate office (where I work) and a bunch of offices in the field across the country. The CEO rolls out employee appreciation week, but only for the branches. I rightfully ask that we do something in the corporate office. I am told “Yes, go find out what people want.” After speaking with a bunch of people the most popular idea was a half day. I take it to the decision makers and am told, verbatim: “Just get them some pizzas. But NOT ALOT!”. Wow.

I'm a truck driver, and I like driving trucks. Shit is fun. Im a flatbedder which means I have an open deck trailer where I have to chain and or strap my cargo. It's great, it's physical and it's a puzzle. Shit, I like this job so much I actually enjoy driving steel into Manhatten in a 80 foot rig lol. It's just a fun ass job. So small back story, last flatbed job i had was just bad. Owner was insane, shady shit was going on, no safety standards, so I left. New job I got was a construction company doing dump trucks. Yada Yada, thought it was gonna be a good opportunity but nah. Dude was paying me $6 less an hour that agreed on because of his system where 1.5 hours of the day didn't count for some fucken reason I don't know why. Plus, I was…

I’m not sure where else to post this so I’ll apologise in advance if this is the wrong place. I’ve recently started a new job and have now been there for a few weeks, a lot of the people there are younger than me (17-18 and I’m 21). Some of the people are nice but others I do not mingle with so well but that’s work for you. I was on my lunch break and I walked into the cafeteria, all of my coworkers including my manager who is in his 30’s were gathered around a big table. I had my headphones in and was eating my food because I wanted to zone out for awhile. I paused my music and I heard them all talking very loudly about Andrew Tate, I started to eavesdrop on what they were saying and they were ALL praising him and saying how he’s…