Antiwork

I work in sales as a customer service agent, and have, of course, a document with my job description, the kind of work I'm supposed to do. However, this is pretty much the only resource I have for my position. All of my training was verbal and consisted of just learning how to process a basic customer order on our software, and I was told that I would just have to ask questions as they arise to learn more. I get this line of thinking, there are just too many scenarios I will run into and I have no problem asking for help, but a lot of times the answers I get are very vague, contradict what others have told me, or are even wrong. I also don't know what I don't know, so a lot of times I won't even realize I've done something wrong until someone from another…

Just applied to job as an Implementation Specialist. Nothing fancy or anything, but something I'm qualified for. Received this email in response: “Thank you for your interest in the Implementation Specialist position! Congratulations on moving to the next step in the process. We believe in identifying a strong fit between our company and our employees and supporting a culture of creative problem solving and innovation. To that extent, we’d like to ask you to complete a series of assessments that focus on aptitude and personality. We take these assessments seriously and ask that you do the same.  To best prepare, try to eliminate any distractions and have a pencil and paper ready. Part of the assessment is timed and cannot be paused, and you must complete all portions in one sitting. No use of a calculator or any outside sources are allowed. The estimated completion time is 30 minutes. For the aptitude…

Gonna rant for a sec, but you can skip to the end. I'm right about to quit this shit job, working at most fast food joints would be a paybump. The owner is honestly a slumlord and literally rents out houses and shit as well, i already see the living conditions of the places that get a lot of public inspections and it is not good. Like the ceiling slowly falling off from water damage and constantly having to remove pieces of it from ppls rooms. Like keeping ppl that need higher levels of care around as long as possible to get the most money. Horrid pt to aid and nurse ratios. Ontop of the scarcity of gloves when handling ppl with infectious diseases. I had to basically have vinyl mittens instead, because they refused to keep gloves in my size stocked because it costs an extra few cents for…

Planning for the worst, expecting little more. Last time they denied my skills increase based on the fact that I don't talk often and that I wasn't trained in things I hadn't been trained on yet.

I recently missed 3 weeks of work due to a major surgery. All was well and my boss was very understanding. On my first day back my boss and my one other coworker were very relieved because they said it was crazy hectic taking on my massive workload and they hope I don’t even have to miss again. 1 day later I’m called into a meeting and was told I will now be responsible for literally half of my coworkers workload on top of mine because she was so stressed while I was out and couldn’t handle it. I was shocked and didn’t know what to say so I stupidly agreed to it. Now I’m so overwhelmed I cry at my desk almost everyday. My boss does nothing but scrolls Facebook all day. Literally. I am seriously considering quitting after being here for almost 6 years. This doesn’t even make…

one thing I've noticed is that is really hard to explain people how salaries aren't the “horrible weight in the neck of our benevolent owners” and instead is the other way around. ​ so, I thought, what if we could make a game-ish visualization showing a company making a product and calculating what the work of each person contributes to the earnings. (and what their mental and physical state affects the whole, maybe?) ​ I mean, could as well be a full fledged factory simulator with that feature, what matters is to dispel the ideas that workers are a net weight on an operation instead of the very heart of it, and also the idea that raising salaries would create this horrible inflation pundits tend to preach about. ​ and it needs to be interactive, because people gets the idea better by trying things instead of being put on a…

I'm job hunting right now and would like some advice for answering the question, “Why are you leaving your current job?” I have a few, like the lack of room for growth, but I worry if I bring some things up, like the health benefits having changed, potential employers might worry I'll jump ship too easily. I interview pretty well, but answering this question wrong can make me seem like a liability.