Antiwork

Yesterday I posted a question on an amazon subreddit about how to work with not having enough time to take off. My vacation is December 15th – Jan 2nd, and even if I save all my PTO and Vacation starting from the beginning of this month, I still wouldn't have enough time to take off. Some people suggested taking a personal leave of absence. I didn't know this was a thing, but it was really easy to request so I did it. I later returned to my OG post to talk about how confused I was when they asked for a reason after requesting the PERSONAL leave of absence. To my surprise people weren't on my side comments things like “of course you have to give a valid reason,” “it's sad employees won't do their job and show up,” and other things. I don't plan on staying at amazon forever,…

I've been with this company for exactly one month. My first payday was yesterday. It's a small family business of around a dozen people. Everyone on my team – save for myself – smokes and takes regular smoke breaks (around 6-7/shift). There is no workforce management a.k.a. Teleopti. Our team consists of six people and we all work our 9-6 shifts. Because there's no Teleopti, we can go on our breaks pretty much anytime we want. Within reason, of course. There is a timesheet that indicates when we can go on our breaks, but no one, even my manager, sticks to that and I was assured by the said manager that our CEO is not going to be angry if our breaks differ from what's written on that piece of paper. Today, with less than two hours left on the clock, my teammates leave on their traditional smoke break. I…

Just wondering.

Nobody wants to work! Immigrants are coming to steal our jobs! I’m confused. Which is it? The governor of Florida just sent a bunch of migrant workers to Martha’s Vineyard. The people there have welcomed them and is taking care of them. I hope they have a wonderful vacation because they earned. But then I want them back, we need them to help. They can handle the heat better than we can from years of evolution and where they live. I had a client say no one wants to work anymore. I told him that nearly everyone who has said that to me is retired. But he’s having to work for free until we hire someone to do maintenance. They may have to increase the pay. Right now the pay is the same as 20 years ago. It wasn’t a bad amount then, but obviously we have inflation. I guess…

I got an email back from my manager stating “best of luck in your future endeavors, I am just disappointed you only gave two weeks notice”. When did it become the norm to give more than two weeks?? Is it supposed to be a month now?? I was waiting for the other offer letter before sending that in.

Today i told a coworker i spent the last afternoon testing my new binoculars that i’ll use on travels, just having fun pointing it at birds on top of buildings and stuff He said wow you must have a lot of free time. I replied yeah its fun, he said sorry man i have no time to do shit like this i have things to do I mean, why these people think we have to be productive all the time? It feels like if they stay 1 sec without being productive they feel guilty or something