Antiwork

I was hired as a part time 8 months ago while studying. During my interview, they said that pretty much always, the part timers are offered a full time position if they would want to do it. (But many part timers leave for other jobs). Fast forward to today, I've got my bachelors degree and asked if I could go from part time to full time, and they said (not word by word but a TL;DR): “We'd like to learn to know you better before we consider a full time position. Therefore we're inviting you to come work 100% on your hourly contract as you have now. After a few months, and we get to know you better we can consider a full time position”. Am I wrong in being shocked that they want me to work 100%, but with an hourly pay of just $18? (They also just recently…

I was hired as a part time 8 months ago while studying. During my interview, they said that pretty much always, the part timers are offered a full time position if they would want to do it. (But many part timers leave for other jobs). Fast forward to today, I've got my bachelors degree and asked if I could go from part time to full time, and they said (not word by word but a TL;DR): “We'd like to learn to know you better before we consider a full time position. Therefore we're inviting you to come work 100% on your hourly contract as you have now. After a few months, and we get to know you better we can consider a full time position”. Am I wrong in being shocked that they want me to work 100%, but with an hourly pay of just $18? (They also just recently…

So I work in a restaurant. Bartender specifically. It’s always hot in the kitchen/ bathrooms as there is no AC and the bathroom is where the dry storage is, outside in a building next to our restaurant, with no AC Well yesterday I went to use the restroom and passed out. And woke up to my boss kicking in the door raising his voice at me asking what I took. I told him I didn’t take anything it’s hot as hell and I need water. Well he walked out of the dry storage area for a few mins and came back with the ambulance people who were all assholes accusing me of taking drugs saying they knew I was on drugs. I was like um what!? I only smoke weed and I didn’t even smoke yesterday. Well I got discharged from the hospital and texted him “just got discharged I…

You work hard, the job is the centre of your life. Every second is invested. You work more than forty hours a week. You're bypassed for the promotion. You wander away, confused, hurt, angry and thinking of quitting. How dare they treat you this way! If you have a certain ability to turn lemons into lemonade, you will grasp this opportunity. You will work far less, push the job to the edges of your consciousness. For the same pay you got last week when you were clocking 50 hours you now work 30. And the 30 you work are stress-free because you don't care. You fill your life with other things, family, friends, sports. You grab every sick day, every vacation day, every chance to be away from the job. You look at the person who was promoted being worked to death, and for what? ​

My boss called me lazy, yelled at me multiple times, and grouped me in a group text to insult me in the third person. That behavior is unmerited. No wonder in the one month I’ve been there 2 agents quit, the marketing girl is on her way out and the accountant told me she’s right behind me.

We have to constantly be typing and it is hell, I get hit with low production meetings all the time because I go back and fix mistakes and it counts towards lower production. Production-based jobs are the worst, they hound us with production numbers every week and I always get scared to check the email. When asked why my production is low, I simply say that I want to correct my mistakes and when we go back it lowers production. I don’t know what else to say. Also, they time us for bathroom breaks and we can’t be paused on our screen for a certain amount of time or we get warning for that as well. I cannot stand this soul-sucking job and can’t wait to get out of this one day.

9 minutes until i have to log on to my work and I am shaking and starting to cry. My job isn't even that bad but knowing the next nine hours will be devoted to this pointless shit has got me in an anxiety spiral. I'd love to find something else but dammit . . . I've got physical issues so i can't do something like that, and now I really need the healthcare, and fuck. I wish I didn't have to sell my sanity to survive.

I'll start with how much I hate politics/most politicians, and this is NOT a job I'd dream for. I see it mentioned here a lot that we need change, but not much more after that. I'm tired of picking lesser evils and have considered changing fields to politics despite experience because this system is clearly breaking down. I want to open discussion for change and how we could actually acheive it before we no longer have a beautiful world to support it. Would you vote for a lesser experienced politician if they were more commited to the people and our planets future?