Antiwork

I don't even know what to say. This is mainly just a vent post. I've been busting my ass going to school full time, working full time, and owning a home/raising a family. Finished a dual associates this year with my GI Bill and still pursuing a bachelor's and hopefully an MPA. I've worked construction my whole life, and military, but I've been working to get into a more white-collar job in Public Service. I absolutely love helping people, thus the Public Admin degrees. I finally netted a state government interview in the field that went incredibly well. They interviewed 10 people and offered me the job. It would have changed my life professionally and financially. I would have gained experience, which is vital, and gotten a 15k raise from my current job (city gov-construction operations). Today, with 5 days left in my two week notice and the day after…

i’m a 21 year old female. i’ve worked since i was 15. i currently work from home, 45 hours a week for a sales job. i am constantly getting calls in my ear, i constantly have goals to meet. i took a 4 days vacation and that caused me to fall so behind that i am now at risk for termination and i am so scared i’m going to lose my job. i’m so mad at how capitalism works and how i’m just going to be jobless if i don’t work 60-70 hour weeks to be able to get back on track from a simple 4 day break. how do i keep uplifted when all i want to do break out of this capitalism chain?

I been working at my current job for several months, I gave my two notice last week and my last day is on Wednesday the 12th. The biggest reason why I am leaving is because for the past several months, I have been getting bullied by the senior paralegal. This woman put me through hell, and she still is, even though I am leaving. Today, I took a 5 minute break and I was on my phone after working for four hours straight and I see her staring at me. She was actually on her tippy toes trying to look over the cubical to see what I was doing. She did this for 5 minutes. She finally came over to me and asked me to do something, it was in reference to her work (My time here I was constantly doing her work, even though I had my own job.)…

Not sure this is the right place, but I just came out of vacation and on my first day back at my job I'm already pissed. I'm already looking at other options, but if things get any worse I'll maybe just.. quit without something lined up. One problem that pisses me off a lot is that whatever I say isn't taken seriously, or only taken serious for a while and then its back to whatever. case #1 is the desinfectant. after the covid lockdown we had to use a desinfectant everywhere for safety reasons. but on day 2 or 3 I was sitting at work with my nose itching and burning, sneezing literally every 2 or 3 minutes over and over and over again, and my nose running with what was essentially water.. yea, I had a severe reaction to the desinfectant, so we all agreed to not use it…

I work in a corporate job and the manufactured stress stemming from people’s belief that things need to be done in a few days or the fake deadlines is exhausting. Nothing in my job is related to life and death situations – it’s marketing for fucks sake. But we continue to “meet” pointless deadlines and scramble at the end of the day or the beginning of the day for what? So an article is up one day before… that no one cares about in reality. I’ve come to conclude that people enjoy the stress because being in a rat race makes them feel accomplished. It has nothing to do with real goals or measurable outcomes. If people weren’t stressed and worried everyday then it would be too easy and overlords would think that people weren’t working. If you do not work in health care or any other job that literally…