Antiwork

This usually works to reveal low-ballers and this is how I flip it back onto the interviewer: Hiring person: “So what is your anticipated pay for this position?” Me: “If selected for this position and made an offer, I will trust that an offer will be made in good faith, taking my skills and experience into consideration. I will know based on an offer whether it will be a good fit for me.” Hiring person: “But we need to list a concrete figure here, so like if you had to put a number to that answer, what would it be?” Me: “Since I don't know the way your organization determines the pay scale, I wouldn't have a concrete number to give you. But I'm sure the range is available internally and I would say an amount within that range that reflects my skills and experience. Did you have any additional…

Workers put up with all the abuse and do the actual work that creates the wealth and for whatever reason if they are laid off or fired they don't get shit from the company. The CEO? Even if he makes absolute shit decisions that cost the company millions gets fired and then gets millions of dollars in a golden parachute package. That is some bullshit

My manager, Boss, used to be my coworker before she was promoted. Back when we were coworkers, she texted me telling me that she had a crush on me. I kindly told her that I was flattered but not interested. I said I hoped that we could remain friends, and for the next few weeks it seemed like nothing had really changed. We were still friendly at work and she never said anything after. All was good. Fast forward a month or so and she is promoted to our manager. No issues, Boss is doing a fine job as manager and the crush was never brought up again. Around this time I start seeing a different coworker, P (please don’t blast me for seeing a coworker I understand it’s a bad idea, it’s a part time job and I’m only there 1-2 days a week). Everything between myself and P…

First and foremost, I am a dog owner, and I love dogs. So last wednesday I had to clean the air ducts of this house. Homeowner wasn’t present, but his 80 year old mother and 40 year old brother were present throughout the air duct cleaning. These people had 2 giant bulldogs. One of the dogs wouldn’t stop barking at me and was UP MY ASS the ENTIRE 4 hours I was there. Literally walking on my hind legs, trying to jump on the ladder as I was standing on it. Barking in my face when I had to reach down and grab various tools and cleaning supplies from the toolbag. I also had previously noticed how flies were swarming on the dog when I had first arrived, needless to say I didn’t want to pet him. The dog wouldn’t let up on me, was constantly on my legs, was…

Someone who will love his job, his workplace and his boss without question. Someone who is happy to show up every single day, to earn his minimum wage. Who is happy to let his boss keep his salary because it makes his boss happy. Someone who would be happy to stay at work 24/7 if it was allowed, because work = life. And this is exactly the kind of employee I aspire to be. Because rn I am like Squidward. Growing up I wanted to be like SpongeBob. The most annoyingly optimistic ass kisser in existence. And that is exactly what I want to be. Because my boss is the most important person in my life, my work is my life. I don’t want a social network. I don’t want friends, I don’t need to see my family often. Just work until I drop. That’s the kind of employee I…

The nature of aervice jobs is to deal with violent people and provide tthem what they want. These jobs are dictatorships in their very nature. What would they look like in a socialist country?

So in the past few years here in the US I've noticed a trend in the workforce. If you have a job that can actually pay your bills, even if it is only 40 hours a week (I say only because lately most have been more like 50-60), you tend to feel like you can't do anything other than pass out after work. I've talked to a lot of people from all different industries and it seems to feel the same to the majority. These jobs have you so anxious with unrealistic, or worse undescribed, expectations that you become so burnt out by the end of your day that you have no energy left for anything. When did this start? How do we get away from this? As human beings we need our lives and time for passions back. It seems incredibly systemic to exhaust the population so much that…

It kinda feels like influential forces are trying to manipulate people to go back to traditional work patterns. Things I see are… 1. The obvious push for employees to return to the office. 2. The resistance of the Fed to reduce interest rates and almost induce a recession. 3. Gig app companies like Uber, DoorDash, etc are doing waves of deactivations (at least in my area of the country). 4. Oil prices are cost prohibitive. Clearly this could just be a perfect storm. But it feels like a covert effort to regain leverage over labor markets. I wish there could be a revolution of sorts and a major pushback. I’m 48 and I’ve never been so stressed. The word that best describes how I feel is PROVOKED.

I was laid off in January, then a family friend got me a job I started In may, I was then laid off 2 days before my probation ended at the end of july without reason. I've been applying to jobs since January and didn't stop applying even when i did work briefly. I've gotten people from the IT field to help with my IT resume, I've used Chat GPT to help write it, I've made my own, I've used the template from r/resumes. I have a Labor/Construction resume. A retail resume. An IT resume, and a Video Editng resume. I can't afford the certifications I want. I can't get a school loan. I can barely afford my rent. Idk how many applivations I've sent out. But I'm starting to lose sleep. My sleep schedule is getting worse. And my mental is slowly going down the drain. Why cant I…