Antiwork

I just want to vent. I have a young family, most of my earned time off goes to being home with my kids when they are sick. I'm lucky if I can manage a long weekend for camping once a year. This year I was scolded because I took a long weekend (planed in advance) the same week I had to take a day off because I was sick. On top of it even after 10 years with my company my time off hours are earned based on 40 hours worked. So even if I didn't take sick days off I don't earn enough time to get a full week until late in the year. Meanwhile I watch all the older workers getting big chunks of time off while most don't have any big responsibilities at home because their children are in college or just grown adults. I understand that…

On the brink of mass tech lay offs you'll start reading propaganda about how they are focusing on 'efficiency' and being lean and that was the reason of the lay offs, they had too many workers when a mythical 'efficient' worker would be able to do more work than 10 workers. But it has nothing to do about that. Big tech profits were never bigger. And they won't maintain productivity after getting rid of those many people. And that's not the plan anyway. What will happen is they'll hire new people. But the trick is that new employees will have of course a lesser salary and considerably less benefits. Importantly, they will be expected not to WFH. You won't sere them maintain productivity, and this is going to come at a massive (yet temporary) cost in productivity. But they are aiming at a bigger goal. It's a rollback in worker's…

This is really messing with me…I spent my whole life making just above minimum wage, working in service and retail and I was always drained at the end of the day. Recently I got my first “office job” and it's fully remote which I love because I get super distracted by office environments. What's really screwing with my head is that I get paid really well, a bigger salary than most of my friends and I work like maximum 3-4 hours a day. IS THIS NORMAL?! I ask not just to try to figure out if I'm alone here (I can hardly ask my coworkers “hey do you also have a ton of free time all day?!” But also because I'm afraid I stumbled onto a goldmine here and that if I ever want to change jobs I'll be back to working 8 hours in a different corporate job. TLDR;…