I'm only half joking because I know how most people on this sub feel about middle management. I'm only one rung higher on the totem pole, but now I have a few people who report to me. Feels kind of weird tbh.
We live in a country that pays untold billions export terror overseas but is unwilling to provide health care to its own people. And we are forced to own cars to get to pointless menial jobs that pay just enough table scraps to afford to exist in some overpriced soulless corporate apartment complex and sustain ourselves with ultra-processes crap masquerading as food. People defend it by pointing out how “prosperous” the economy is compared to other countries, but the same could be said of serfs and peasants in Victorian England; that didn’t make their situation any less desperate. The working class here in the US is finding the cost of existence more and more unbearable every day, notwithstanding the cheap arguments of neoliberal apologists. Meanwhile nobody seems to care. What gives? Why don’t the people demonstrate to demand at least social democratic reforms?
Two days ago I(M27) started working an office job in the public sector. It's the first job I've had based on my college education and yesterday I was really excited. I was like ooh this is new and interesting and I'll be contributing to this good thing. Today, however, we got training in what we'll actually be doing and I don't want to be overly dramatic but within an hour I was thinking “I could just jump out the window”… I mean I could also just quit. That remains an option, so that impulse wasn't so serious as for anyone to be worried. But the impulse was there. And over time that impulse will only grow stronger. The whole job was literally going back and forth between these boring websites, double checking the information people have written on forms for welfare, copy pasting that information and typing “confirmed, user has…
They are no longer seeking talented and skilled workers, they simply want the cheapest, and to keep that bar low bringing in only the most desperate folks. This will be short lived, a few years maybe, as the software running their business can not be maintained by mediocre staff indefinitely. Also, perhaps more of a personal opinion, there seems to be an assumption from the top that the working class is stupid and weak for not figuring out how to exploit their neighbors and profit from it. I don't know which is more sad to me, the fact that a broken moral compass is considered a victory now in high society, or that the honorable challenge of being the best by simply offering the best product or service no longer enters in to the equation. I think a free market of supply and demand has many merits,… but this… this…
Recently got a ft-perm role after many years spent as a contractor. Didn’t really feel it was the right role / fit for me and sent an email to inform management of my resignation. After all, there’s a reason why the notice period is a thing right? It’s well in my power to give them notice of termination as well as in their power to terminate my employment. How would you reply to the email that I received back from management? First post in r/antiwork hello everyone!
I work for a large tech company and manage a product line. A recruiter from a direct competitor reached out to me to discuss the same position for the same product line – but for double the salary. I definitely want to hear more about the role, but am unsure how I would make the switch with the non-compete my company has in place if I would get an offer. Has anyone else navigated a similar situation? What questions would you ask in this initial call? For additional context- my current company denied my raise request this year because I have been promoted twice in the last three years and “my salary has already doubled”. Lame excuse imo, I know I am paid well below market value as it is. My company is known to be the lowest paid out of our competitors. I DO like my job. My company…