Antiwork

Let me preface this by saying I was in a toxic job that made me feel like shit for the last year and a half and it took me 8 months to land my new job. So you can say I’m a little traumatized. Not to mention this was also my first ever “real job” (aka corporate desk job) post college so it’s put a bad taste in my mouth. I just started a new job about two weeks ago. (I know it’s a weird time to start a job cause most people are mentally checked out for the holidays.) The first day I started I was given no instruction or welcoming or anything. Mind you my first day was WFH but my second day was in office. I quite literally showed up 10 minutes before 9 and waited until 9:45 to see another human being in the office. Once…

Take a nobody who ran a series of bad investments, put him on a pedestal as a martyr and then bail out all the investors. Anyone see more wealthy socialism in our future? They didn't do it with Enron because those people had money (and bailout culture was just starting). But billionaires and bailouts have been the backbone of the US government for a while. There are stories coming out about investors that bought half a town's restaurants and all this jazz with the FTX funds and the town doesn't want to lose those restaurants. Meanwhile YouTubers have been pump and dumping crypto on their fan bases for years and the government hasn't stepped in once. It's just a cruel irony that the point of investing like this is because it's risky, yet people never seem to eat any of the penalties of the risks if they are wealthy enough.…

i love this sub cus i get to ask about all the terrible experiences i had with managers for my own sanity lol. this time last year i started having stomach issues (IBS related). i began working at a retail store that i was in line for a promotion for at another location. when i moved i put in even MORE effort into the joB FOR that promotion. upon asking the manager at the time about my promotion, he told me im a good employee but i “use the bathroom a lot”. just wondering if that was a weird, unnecessary unprofessional excuse. it took me aback and this happened last sunmer

While corporations may engage in ruthless downsizing, the layoffs and speed-ups invariably fall on that class of people who are actually making, moving, fixing, and maintaining things. Through some strange alchemy no one can quite explain, the number of salaried paper pushers ultimately seems to expand, and more and more employees find themselves — not unlike Soviet workers, actually — working 40- or even 50-hour weeks on paper but effectively working 15 hours just as Keynes predicted, since the rest of their time is spent organizing or attending motivational seminars, updating their Facebook, or downloading TV box sets. The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger. (Think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the sixties.) And, on the other hand, the feeling that work…

So for the past 3 weeks I have been interviewing with this restaurant group out of Columbus OH. They are in a period of growth and looking to bring on additional leadership. After 5 in person interviews, and 12 phone interviews with various leadership throughout the company, they finally made me an offer of employment. Nothing crazy, guaranteed 50k plus bonuses and insurance. Well the day I was supposed to go in and do paperwork/begin familiarizing myself with one of the 3 locations I would be overseeing… They call me to rescind my offer. Literally flabbergasted, I asked them why. To which they respond: “Well we are moving into the slow season and we aren't sure we want to carry another salary right now.” So after talking with the Director of Operations, a few of their GMs, the COO, and both of the owning partners (who made me the offer)…