Antiwork

I’m caught between “if it costs you your peace it’s too damn expensive” and “yeah but I’ll learn so much”. I was offered a job across the country from where I grew up in spring with a start date in summer. I accepted as it was a great opportunity. When I finally got there though the person I was supposed to be working under retired and no one told me. I was still working with his team but without a replacement (which we still don’t have 3 months later) we weren’t able to do much. It was here that I started to get nervous, even more so as I realized 2 things 1) everyone here had a “work is life/be grateful you have a job or get tossed” mentality and 2) the entire office was still on a paper system which I had NEVER been trained on because it’s fucking…

The reason I’m posting this is for personal clarity and to see what society thinks about it. What is the purpose of the minimum wage? If we have a minimum wage, why? What was it implemented for? Was it meant to be something to use a a platform to scale for skilled jobs and for businesses to benefit from? Or was it implemented to protect the lifestyles of workers as a representation of what is supposed to be the minimum amount of money to earn full time to have an essential minimum lifestyle? What constitutes a essential minimum lifestyle? Who figured out what value minimum wage should be and what did they base it on? Why doesn’t minimum wage work as a liquid base, rising with inflation and cost of living? These are the questions that burn in my brain and why I personally hate that we have a minimum…

App* I just landed a job that pays more than my current (score!) and they want me to download “ConnecTeam”. Have you heard of it? Any security concerns that you’ve heard off the top of your head? It’s the app they use for schedule and communication. I know some people are super serious about stuff like this, so please let me know

So I might be changing jobs soon. A recruiter reached out to me, and they said they can hit my asking price. I'm pretty stoked about this. But it's also a little bittersweet because I don't actually hate my current job, at least in terms of my coworkers and the work itself. I feel like I'm good at what I do, my job is secure, and my coworkers and immediate supervisors appreciate and respect me. So why am I leaving? You guys already know. It's the money. I'm not paid enough. I'm an Engineering Technician. Know what that means? That means I'm an engineer, but I'm paid like a technician. I brought this to my supervisor; essentially saying “hey, it's been a year of me doing a bunch of work that is WAY above and beyond my job description. I want a title and pay grade that reflects the work…

We were informed starting next year the one sick day we had with vacation will no longer be given. Instead if you get sick you use a vacation day. No explanation, but it sucks Less benefits

I was about three hours into the workday, busting ass this morning on a piece of front-end code for the company's new shiny dashboard. All of a sudden I got a message from the CTO asking me to hop on a call. When it was just me, him, and HR in the call, I knew I was in trouble. He let me know they were downsizing, thanked me for the work I put in for the last six months, and promptly cut off my access to every company resource before my head even stopped spinning. Two others on my team got the same treatment. A headstart would have been nice.

My boss (M45) asked me (F22) a month ago whether I could work during christmas holidays, I said yes but wasn’t sure which days yet. He told me that the 24th and 31st are his busiest days of the year but we left it at that. I told my mom that I might be working on the 24th so I would only be home the next day. My parents are quite religious, this obviously upset her a lot so I immediatly texted my boss that I would not be able to work on the christmas weekend. His response was “you have to”. That’s it. Keep in mind this is a part-time student job, under a Dutch zero-hour contract, therefore I have no obligation to work on specific days nor a min. amount of hours. I’m not sure how to go about this and what I should respond. The only thing…