Antiwork

For a while now, once a week my team has had to help out some people that have an entirely different and much shittier job that makes a couple dollars an hour more than we do. We don’t get increased pay for our time in there. There’s absolutely nothing in the offer letter I signed for my current position about helping in other places, and there isn’t the “other duties as assigned” bullshit. I wouldn’t mind if the job didn’t leave my back hurting and allergies inflamed basically every week. I don’t have much hope that there’s a fix for this because workers in the US have basically no power, but I figured I’d ask just in case there was something I could do to get myself and my fellow employees out of this situation.

As part of my job I coordinate calendars. I saw an invitations with details to a specific conversation that needs to happen, but not enough I can figure out what’s going to. I know have a meeting tomorrow morning for an hour with my boss labels discussion They have also blocked me from seeing their calendar I am so nervous but can’t think of anything I did wrong. FML. Happy Friday

Not a day has gone by in 2023 without a company employing someone I know doing a major layoff. The LinkedIN posts start flooding out shortly after, and its headscratching. Note- I myself was laid off in June. It most certainly did not have to happen So many people practically giving the company that fired them a handy on the way out the door “thanking them for the opportunity to learn and grow” or whatever BS. I get that it's not gonna help your job prospects to rage online, necessarily. But for the love of all that's holy, THANKING them on the way out? Have some self-respect. The other one driving me nuts: “My heart hurts for those affected”. That's a great sentiment, and absolutely you should share it. But you stop there after you say this, and your customary offer to help anyone in any way you can. You're…

…when you are a chronic overachiever and people pleaser? I'm at the point where I need to do this so I don't get burned out or worse. I'm currently searching for another job, but I work in a very competitive field so it might be a while, so I basically need to survive at my current job until I find another. Any tips to fight the people pleaser in me and start working my wage?

You can't just disguise a mandatory training session as a “free lunch” by getting 2 boxes of day old donuts and a bottle of knock off brand coke. Especially when theres supposed to be 50 people in the room on their unpaid lunch breaks. It also isn't a good look to call an employee “ungrateful” when he gets up to go out to his car to run home and get a real lunch after he figures out what's going on. Or to send an email later on threatening a write up for future missed sessions while calling his demand to be paid for the training as “retaliatory” Before reciting the age old, tired utterance “Nobody wants to work anymore” : please take a long hard look at your company and place yourself in the shoes of your subordinates. Loosen up your tie and Imagine for a second that you're living…