Antiwork

As in “Oh Manager here you go here is everything” We have a colleague on our team. He has been out for 6/7 weeks and his first day back in the office is today. We work on a service desk and we have been busy with issues (As in we have been none stop) so our store room is a little messy, nothing a good sort out won't resolve (We started the other day before the calls come flooding in and got part way through one section) He has now emailed everyone including our director that the room is a mess and complaining. getting director approval for his grassing. Yes I know the room is messy. He might not understand it, we've been exceptionally busy

I worked thanksgiving and I’m scheduled to work Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as well. I’m a nurse. I knew that becoming a nurse I would have to work some holidays but it’s not fair that I work all the holidays while other nurses get some holidays off.

I work remotely for a tech company – the team I mainly work with is a mix of international and US based. We frequently have what are for me 630AM meetings (my other US members are an hour ahead so 730 – which is still too early). This was not something told to me in the interviews and if I had known I probably would not have accepted. I’m a night owl, my job is a lot of independent work so in my previous roles I would work around 9/930-12 then work again around 2/3-6/7. Waking up at 6 for this meetings has been destroying my internal schedule and day to day energy. I frequently can’t sleep for hours the night before these meetings because I’m dreading waking up. This morning I was present for the meeting but had my camera off because it was a particularly rough wake up.…