Antiwork

I will spare you the history of that specific land development in my hometown. But when we heard that Panera was going in everybody was excited. I had given it a couple of years so That specific location would get its act together. I had applied and got requested for an interview! On the application it asked if I live more than 15 mi away, and not answering yes would disqualify me. I answered no, although I lived 15.5 miles away and driving down would not be out of the way for me. I had gone 15 minutes early and was made aware that there were two other people ahead of me also waiting for an interview. I had waited and had food for a good 45 minutes before she came to my table. She said that she was behind and apologized. The interview went well (I think), but I…

Not even going to mention the company’s name, but I was initially hired as temporary with the chance of becoming permanently employed. I worked there for 6 months, doing my tasks as textbook as it gets. I literally worked as hard as I could, to the point where I would physically be pained. I would come home with calluses and blisters all over my feet from walking 9,000-15,000 steps per night (graveyard shifts). All because I wanted a permanent position. On my last month, I get called to the office as I am working. They tell me that they’re letting me go, initially being vague in the beginning. They said they did notice my great work ethic, and that I was at the top of the list to be one of the temporary workers to be employed full-time. After talking for a solid 30 minutes, my boss bluntly told me…

I feel Landhoarder is a more appropriate term then landlord in the modern context.

I've been working at my current place for about 1.5 years now, it's a high-tech company, a good salary, good people, free ice cream and cookies, etc. This year we had many planned and unplanned changes – we bought our first home and took a mortgage, and had our first baby. In addition to that all, everything got more expensive. our mortgage got about 20% higher due to increased interest rate, all groceries got more expensive, electricity, water. you name it. I decided that it would be best if I worked in another place for a day, I contacted one of my past jobs, a coffee place, and they said “no problem, come work on Fridays.” but apparently, my current work has the following statement: It seems like I'm not allowed to. What do I do now, we keep losing money every month now. “The employee undertakes not to engage…

In a human life span of 75 years, we are alive for 657,000 Hrs. Of those 657,000 Hrs, if you started working 40hrs a week at the age of 18, you would’ve spent 57 years, or 118,560 hrs of your life working by the time you make it to 75 (if you make it to 75). This is of course without taking into account that most people now a days are forced to start working full time or multiple jobs much sooner than 18 years of age due to rising cost’s of living. These hours are also not taking commute times into account of which add up to thousands of Hrs. To put 118,560 hrs into perspective, you could walk the circumference of Earth approx 8,300 times. Food for thought.