Antiwork

So, I live in Utah, which is not a right to work state. I used to monitor security alarms, burglar, fire, panic, medical, the works. I was on the grave shift for most of my employment. On the grave shift, I came across a boss who treated the workers like garbage. We could never bring issues to her without being scolded heavily. It was various stuff, yelling at us for following policy, degrading people, hell the policies they did enforce, they didn't follow themselves. For example, they dated a coworker on the same shift. I moved shifts because of her. Not even a couple weeks later, the day shift gets me comfortable with speaking up about it, and I start opening up to the leadership. Not a week or two later, they are talking about discipline or getting rid of me. They finally did that, calling it work avoidence.

I’m currently working two jobs, neither of which offer benefits or a living wage. Everyone in my life is telling me to apply to other jobs, and that I’m smart enough to be making a lot more money, as though that’s how it works in late capitalism. But, seriously, how do you guys do it…? I’m encountering job listings that require a masters in the medical field that are paying $17/hr ($3 above my state’s minimum wage). I’m encountering marketing jobs with entry-level pay that expect candidates to have measurable growth metrics on every conceivable social media platform. I’m encountering administrative assistant jobs for massive corporations that offer near-minimum wage and don’t mention any PTO. As much as I dislike my current jobs, they seem less awful than a lot of what’s out there. How do you guys play the cost-benefit analysis game while applying, and how do you stave…

I met another valiant worker on a staffing company construction assignment who enlightened me to this subject. His name is R and he told me how he goes about in a job search by getting practice communicating by email and phone but he does not do interviews. He is a ex-marine and earned my respect. I just had a phone interview and I held the line. I do not need to enter into a so called employers 3 ring circus of 2 interviews and the ole 'we'll let you know… bullsheet'

Got into the field because I like helping people and being there for people. I’ve found that to be successful in this field, you do have to put up with the possibility of verbal/physical attacks happening at work. The jobs that rely on you being empathetic and patient quickly turn into you being a physical or verbal punching bag. Maybe I’ve just gotten better boundaries because I can’t do this kind of work much longer.

I just quit my job last Monday. Usually when I put my resume out I at least get some calls and interest, but it’s been crickets the past week or so. Idk if it’s the holidays or because of the tough times right now, but I’ve literally heard from one employer lol My experience is for customer service, security, and as an investigator. Been applying for remote CSR and other remote positions

Do I just do free work?? Why the hell would I go thru 2 interviews and create an entire outline for a pitch to end up telling me that they’re not hiring for this role? So ridiculous. I hate this whole process sometimes.

And it felt good to tick that box saying enough is enough. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about some of the financial implications but what else can you do when you've effectively had a pay cut for the last 10 years & those in charge just aren't listening. Power to the people.

My company does these mandatory meetings every month where they go over monthly revenue, expenses, safety, materials, and a whole bunch of stuff that really doesn’t matter to anyone on the shop floor, but we sit through it, nbd. Well last December we had our meeting where we go over the previous month, revenue was 3mil (pretty typical), operating expenses were on target, etc. well an hour or two later me all the other newest guys were called into another meeting and laid off for what they claimed was only gonna be a week or two. It ended up being 4-5 weeks. This double sucked I had used up my unemployment eligibility prior to taking the job, they ended up only calling me back when I told them I was about to take a different job. The whole thing cost me a months worth of wages. Now a year later…