Antiwork

You should find a job you’re passionate about! Imagine still saying that in 2022? Who has a passion to work at a corporation to make the higher ups richer while you work some meaningless mundane office job? Who dreams of this shit? I genuinely wonder who actually “loves” corporate work. I will work for pay, do my job, and clock out. I have no passion for any work. Neither should you. Fulfill yourself outside of work with your passions.

I work for a large retail corporation I'm not going to name. I've worked here for three years. In those three years I've been serious. I'm a forty-something single mom and I need max pay plus benefits at this stage of my life. I'm not tooting my own horn but I've proven myself. When I was still in the temp phase I had three section managers arguing over me. It ended up being my decision but one offer was too sweet to pass up. They sweetened the deal because the manager is a known hard ass that goes by all the tedious rules. Little did they know I would have chosen her anyway because in the three years I've been here she's taught me everything she knows. Now I'm putting myself out there for management positions. You know, the shittiest ones no one wants because they're brutal and they're the…

We are a billing dept of a non-profit (all women staff) so we don't get paid nearly enough anyway. We are also overloaded with work that we cannot possibly do efficiently especially dealing with health insurance companies that put obstacles in your way on purpose and gaslight you when you call them out. I started 9 months ago and have established myself as a competent person who is detail-oriented but somewhere around the 5 month mark I started to get frustrated with a lot of things about the job. But the best thing about the job is that my boss is the most chill woman on the planet. She understands what life is all about and doesn't use toxic micromanagement techniques. Today I learned that my boss is also behind, probably because our ED (CEO) is on a partial hiatus and a lot of the executive duties duties are falling…