Antiwork

I live in the Bay Area

I have been working for 6 years at these same business and honestly, they have been great for the most part. I am a graphic designer and I started off making $16 an hour and got raises by asking for yearly reviews etc. I was very good at doing the larger jobs, that brought in the most money so those where my main focus. I was told a few times they wished they could pay me more but since it is a smaller company they could not. I stayed because I liked the people and it was a fun job. I have gotten all the way up to a whopping $19.50 an hour in 6 years (lol) I’ve been feeling a bit stuck for a while since a few years back I found a sheet that showed what everyone was making and JFC I was already making more then even…

This happened to me years ago when I was in my first year of college for IT, Systems Admin and Network Admin (I'm doing much better now and have advanced pretty far in my career): I lived in a VERY expensive city in Ontario Canada (Toronto), so my meager student loans wouldn't last me in the off months, I had to try and scramble to find some part time work so I could continue to pay my rent. Well, I get a phone call from someone saying they're from the company “Primarica”, saying they found my resume on a well known job seeker site and if I was interested in an interview for a job opportunity. I told them yes, and they gave me a time and place to be and hung up. Something to note here: My resume was VERY geared to IT. Basic IT like help desk, computer…

I work in an industry that is garbage to begin with. My boss is notoriously cheap and unprofessional, and you have to titty-twist to get a raise. I have always been a pretty hard worker, and have reaped the rewards of that (more work, yay!). But I've learned my lesson. In my 30s now, and with an 18 month old. WFH since COVID and will be going forward (boss already agreed to this and will receive the nastiest response if he tries to backpeddle). The company is maddeningly disorganized, and everyone is so overworked, to the point that nobody checks up on anything. I'm paid salary, and I do my work, so here's the brag: I've made use of the tools available to me so that I work VERY little. A 20 year old me would have found more work to do and improved things and taken on extra projects.…