Antiwork

I don't know if I can do it. 40 more years of sitting in an office, staring at a computer screen 40+ hours a week under fluorescent lights working for unappreciative clients and bosses trying to squeeze every last second of productivity out of us while paying us the least amount possible to keep us there. I don't have a bad job per se – my coworkers are pretty good folks, and I used to enjoy what I do, but the thought of another 40 years of it makes me want run screaming. It's not even that I don't want to do anything, I know that for our society to function, we need to contribute in meaningful ways, but God damn. I want to enjoy life. I want to wake up in the morning and enjoy a cup of coffee and a scone or something. I want to go for…

Hey everyone. Canadian dude here. I started at an HVAC company as a heat pump installer. I love the job, been doing it for a few years and just started with this company last month. The letter of offer they gave states my availability is from Monday – Friday from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm. Since I've stated working there, I worked about three 8 hour shifts. Every other shift I've worked has been in the 11-15 hour range. I'm writing this at the tail end of a 12 hour shift just today. My last paycheck had 103 hours on it. I collapse into bed every night. If I can feed myself, it's a plus. My muscles ache and spasm every night. My cat is being neglected, my friends are being neglected, my house is a mess because, you guessed it, neglected. They don't pay a nickel of overtime. Straight…

I applied to a position at a collision company last night before bed. They called me this morning and asked if I could come within the next hour for the interview. Normally I would have said no but I was already up and this place isn’t far from where I live. I get there and wait a few minutes past the time given to me which is fine then they call me into the office to conduct the interview. They asked the normal and typical what do you currently do, why did you apply here and why you want to work here, blah blah blah. They then go on to tell me that the position I applied for is not only the busiest but toughest position there at the company and HERES THE KICKER they are PAID THE LEAST. Not only are they paid the least, they are required to…

I had to go through an extensive background check and wait 4 months to start this analyst job, which I started in January of this year. The training is subpar, there are hardly any written procedures, the software and computer systems are constantly lagging or data goes missing and has to be reentered, and everything revolves around meeting quality standards. Since I started in January, 4 people have resigned and left the company from an original team of 19. I turned in an 80 page file recently, and it randomly got pulled for audit. Because one data point was incorrect, it failed the quality audit. The data point was biographical and had no bearing on any of the metrics, and was not entered by me, but instead was pulled in from existing system records. But of course, my boss blames me, texted me on my day off about it, and…

I work at a hotel, and we are adding a new tower due to winning a bid with the city to be the “Official events hotel” in our city. Anyways I work the coffeeshop, I've worked there since 2019 and busted my ass off working extra hours and covering tons of shifts. We only had 3 employees and I worked sooo much overtime. A lot of times after my shift I would help the restaurant out too. My old boss knew how much of a hard worker I was. He was there for me and we felt like a team. I constantly got complimented by guests, and was even mention in two hotel reviews this past week. Anyways I had planned on working at the new towers coffeeshop. I didn't get the supervisor position, which fine (they didnt even interview me)..but they're not putting me over there at all. I…

So, this is probably gonna be a divisive post and some of you will probably regard me as immature but here goes. I will be filling in as cover supervisor in a minimum wage job (even the supervisor is paid barely more than min wage). We have been recently given quite strict new orders (about people being on their phones and appearances). I have told my colleagues that I will not be enforcing any of these rules (I have told them to be discrete with their phones but that I will not be reporting them if I see them on these). I will be refusing to report any of my co-workers for other things, as a supervisor is supposed to do. I am quite well educated and have developed utter contempt for the management. My attitude is that if you pay people shit, then you can expect shit. Any advice…