Antiwork

I plan to quit my corporate job in a couple months. I have upcoming meetings with management to discuss my long term goals and what I want to learn or be involved with to contribute to my development. I don’t have any since I know I’m leaving the company. It’s a good job but my heart is not in corporate America anymore. These meetings are giving me anxiety because its so hard for me to come up with something and blatantly lie. I could bs my way through it but it will be so cringe. I don’t want to burn bridges either. What sorts of things can I say?

It's bullshit. And even if there's some truth to it, it shouldn't impact anyone's willingness to job-hunt.

I'm currently on that part of the hormonal cycle that I'm in pain, nauseous, constantly cold and tired although I took two naps and didn't do anything all day. Luckily I'm at home with my baby. If I was at work, I would run around like a crazy because either I wouldn't be allowed sick leave or because I would be too afraid to take sick leave “too often”. My heart cries when I remember the video of a woman crying and pumping in a workplace toilet because her baby was at NICU and she couldn't take days off from work. It's 2023, and the equality now is at the point that everyone just has to be a slave for money. I feel like the equality movement was a scam – it was promoted as women's rights, but instead it benefitted capitalism as much or even more than women actually.…

I’ve applied to so many jobs that I meet all the criteria for and haven’t had a single call back. I’m sick of applying only to hear nothing. Applying for jobs and hearing nothing has made me resent corporate life to the fullest. I’m at the point where I’m just going to start lying on my resume. Apparently what’s on there isn’t good enough so time to start making some shit up. Fuck it I love when people are like “hate your job? Find a new one.” It’s not that easy, bucko. The system is absolutely broken. No wonder people stay in the jobs they hate forever. It’s not worth the headache of applying only to get turned down over and over again.

I live in the US working for a small business in its infancy. My place of work is in the middle of “optimizing” which entails getting rid of hours available to work and trying to get away with putting as few people on the clock as possible. They overcorrected recently and on a “slow” day (its food service so there's no guarantee any single day will behave like your projection sheet says) they got rid of the second closer and left the shift lead completely solo, and got rid of the entire prep guy who takes the 8 hour shift to prep for the next morning. I was scheduled on dish. Which tends to be a pretty constant flow of work piled on top of itself. I was asked to abandon my post to do prep. (Which, do remember, they got rid of the prep guy ON PURPOSE.) And I…