Antiwork

I already put in my 2 weeks notice, but I will leave sooner. My coworker loves to work. She works about 80 hours a week. She is in her late 50s, so she probably has nothing to do. I am in my 20s and have a life. My department is tasked with many duties, but they're not urgent. She convinced my boss that we need to work on weekends to get our work done since it's too much. She said that being salaried means we have to do whatever it takes to get the work done. He made us rotate on weekends. We already work on weekends sometimes since we get calls, but now we have to work full-time on weekends if it is our turn. We do not get paid for it. I was against this idea, and my boss and his colleagues were not happy at me. I'm…

This is not necessarily “anti-work” but I’m pretty frustrated by the dress code enacted by my workplace. Specifically the differences for men vs. women in the workplace. Why am I expected to be in a nice button-up and slacks and potentially suit/tie some days? Especially when the women in my office are able to wear virtually whatever they want within reason (dresses, sweater, flowy comfortable pants, even t-shirts!!!). Obviously everything covered and relatively professional but I’m not sure why I should be expected to be dressed like I’m going to a wedding every day when it’s uncomfortable and often detrimental to my desire to go to work. I know it’s so simple and overall the work environment is relatively positive, but it seems a bit hypocritical. There are other people with bigger problems in the workplace but it’s just something I noticed. Any thoughts?

This is just a thought I had, wanted to share see what other people thought. You would be blind if you haven’t seen a lot of people talking about the trades and how the trades are a great way to make good money, this can fluctuate and depends on the trade, but regardless of the economy construction and other things like that have been moving consistently since the pandemic. I have a lot of friends in the industry. For example my friend who just got journeyman electrician is clearing 40 bucks an hour with benefits and everything, he worked hard to get there. I thought about doing this several times. But here’s the context, I went to college, got good scholarship, academic and athletic, worked hard for it, team player, hard worker. Even was able to get a graduate degree, simple MBA, Did it because in undergrad I got half…