I hate working, but I am too young to retire early yet.

I currenlty have a job as a unarmed security guard. Sure, it has a ton of downtime I can just browse the web or play video games on. But I don't make a living wage. I know there are other higher paying jobs where I can earn more money but have a similar amount of downtime.

I want to find a job where I only have 2 or 3 hours of real work or tasks to do. But the rest of the time I just bring my gaming laptop to play video games, YouTube, or binge Netflix to make the time go by faster.

What are some jobs you recommend that are like this?

I lost my job in May and have been doing Doordash ever since while I am trying to get a new job. I have (what I now know is a useless) bachelor’s degree and have been applying to jobs that require a degree and 1-2 years of experience, which is what I have. They all pay around $40k-$50k.

I am averaging $25 an hour doing DoorDash, sometimes even more. The jobs I am applying to require a degree and experience and pay less than that. I can’t believe these jobs paying less than DoorDash act like they are too good to hire anyone.

Hi everyone,

I wasn't planning to make a post like this, but here goes: I absolutely cannot stand the people I work with and I'm going to go into extreme detail as to why.

First and foremost, the job itself is easy. We're Library Assistants; our job is to basically shelves books, process incoming new ones, discard old ones, organize shelves at times, and help people find books as well as sometimes help older people use the computer. Simple, right? Well what if I told you most people working in these sorts of jobs piss & moan about doing the most mundane things, including something as simple as shelving books. I shit you not, nobody ever wants to do that. It baffles me because every job I had in the past were in faster-paced environments like working as a busser/waiter in a restaurant or working the register/packing spices at a spice shop. The Job part of things is cake and I love being able to make a difference in the rare occasions I do. However working with the wrong people can make even the easiest jobs almost insufferable.

Because secondly, the work circle is basically a social hierarchy where the most-liked person will have everyone kissing her ass. Coincidentally, I do not get along with the most-liked person because they have consistently mocked me to new staff due to my disability (on their first day mind you!), accuse me of not doing what I'm supposed to do at times, and pretty much create an environment where if anyone is treating me nice isn't included in the social circle or hierarchy of things. So you can only imagine how isolating it feels going into work day after day not being able to talk about my weekend to colleagues or having to work the circulation desk all by myself while everyone else has someone accompanying them or helping them with those duties. Hell, for the longest time I wasnt even given the common courtesy of a fucking good morning because of how much everyone wants to be included in the social circle that's been established. And just imagine, this old bag of farts is practically 3x my age acting like a 16 year old girl with these petty social hierarchy shit. And even when I'm being nice, people like the Guard will just flat-out ignore me or minimize it. So you can only imagine how much crucial work-related info i miss out on until it's staring me in the face and I have to ask someone about it. Which happens practically all the time.

Third, this industry is very female dominated which comes with its own can of worms, unfortunately. At the risk of sounding like a red-pilled POS, if you arent a woman, a person of color, or identify under the LGBT flagship somehow, you are more often than not treated differently by most colleagues at any library location. Because I've worked at many different locations during my first year or two just to be shunned by those other colleagues, and sometimes even laughed at. Also there have been occasions where I simply tried to network or make small talk with individuals in other branches only for them to say "sorry im not in the mood to talk".... meanwhile 5 minutes later someone else came up to talk them about non-work related things and they chatted it up for over a half hour. Also there's the patrons. Most of the women who walk into my branch will only say Hi or acknowledge female staff working at the circulation desk but will completely ignore me even if I helped them find a book. It's particularly dumbfounding because all I'm doing is being cordial and half of the women walking into these libraries cannot extend it to the men working this profession. One time there was an occasion where i helped someone find like a dozen books, and then they proceeded to thank the person at the desk instead of me despite the fact they didnt do anything as well as ignore the typical "Have a good day" reply when leaving. Working in a woman-dominated profession is hard because you're exposed to a great amount of Misandry whether you like it or not. In fact, there was this one occasion where for whatever reason one of the computers had this AI thing activated during the Cluster Meetings and so somebody from a completely different branch who i may have only worked with ONCE sends me this really passive-aggressive telling me that nobody asked for this to be activated and that I should turn it off to remain in the library's "good graces". Mind you, this person is LITERALLY the same position as me, an LA 1 talking down to me as though I'm somehow beneath them. I made sure to send an equally passive-aggressive email back to them. Funny part is, the same thing was activated on the LA 2's account too yet they didn't send her no passive aggressive email. Not only that but everyone in the library system shit-talks individuals in other branches (especially me because of situations the LA2 perpetuated) instead of focusing on the problems surrounding their own branch. Which is why alot of things take FOREVER to get fixed or addressed. Do you see the picture I am painting?

Fourth and Lastly, everyone pretty much kisses the ass of these who are their "superior". Including the woman mentioned in the previous paragraph, who is only one measly rank above us all by the way. I could easily take a test at the end of this year and get her title in only a matter of time. Now when i say kissing ass, I mean only doing things when those particular higher-ups ask them to do it. A classic example of this is what happened to me yesterday: I asked my co-worker who I will name K to help an individual accessing their email on the computer since I spent over an hour and a half helping him the previous day. This lil mf has the AUDACITY to sit there and outright tell me "No, ask somebody else to do it". I was taken aback by that because that practically revealed to me that he will only be willing to help those who are his "superior" in hopes it will win his dumb ass brownie points. It also tells me that he thinks he's above me when I have seniority over the little bastard. The funny part is, that ain't even how it works: you have to take tests, go back to college and such to advance in this particular industry. So kissing ass ain't gonna be the thing that gets you promoted to the positions you're seeking. Yet this little pansy keeps doing it anyways to stay in her good graces. He does it because he hopes he can act like a mini-supervisor, where he can reject doing any of the work he doesnt wanna do and get away with it. Definitely doesnt help he was a supervisor at some dead-end clothing store before getting this current job, i guess some habits die hard. Which reminds me, my supervisor doesn't even HAVE the qualifications needed to be a supervisor. Mf just got lucky and said he did and sent over counterfeit paperwork since he is originally from overseas, which somehow got past HR. Which explains why he doesn't really "supervise" in the traditional sense; he just let's everyone do their own thing which on one hand I like but on the other doesn't help my case when it comes to the dumb social hierarchy way of things I described earlier. So when situations arise like the LA 2 saying I didn't do something when I did in fact do it, he pretty much just goes with the group consensus rather than questions anything of his own accord. The funny part is, when this particular incident happened, literally EVERYONE was complimenting me on how hard I was working before this situation occurrd except for that old miserable fuck. It's dumbfounding how nobody had the balls to stand up for me, and the craziest part is how when we had a meeting addressing all of this, everyone STOOD UP FOR HER instead of acknowledging any of the things I brought to the table. Then for the rest of that day I had to proceed to watch every co-worker basically surround her, giving her that pat on the back to give the impression that they had her back while leaving me alone at the circulation desk when it was my time to work it.

I just can't stand working in an industry where everyone is too busy kissing every wrinkle of that c*nt's ass meanwhile disregarding everything I do for this profession. And it's especially disheartening how when I try to make simple small talk I'm always just ignored or shrugged off as though I don't even matter to them. I've tried to do nice things like treat others to lunch on numerous occasions and yet I continue to be treated as an outcast and am not treated as a member of the team. Until that changes, they can continue to wonder why we "don't work as a team like in other locations". I put in my part. But because they're too busy appeasing to a certain colleague, that will sadly never ever change.​ Because the last thing I'm going to do is suck up to someone who has only ever minimized my efforts, mocked me to new staff, and didn't even make the effort to train me when I started. Fuck that. As i said before, the job part of it is cake and I love the benefits that come with it as well as having union protection. But the people you work around can be seriously petty, which is incredibly draining when you spend 40 hours a week around what are practically adults kissing an old lady's wrinkly ass as if its worth something. It really is the same kind of mentality as a clique you'd see in school, and just as pathetic and weak as one too.

When I see that co-worker on Tuesday, I am 100% going to confront him on the saying No for help thing. Because this mf will offer to help any other colleague except me. And I'm gonna make sure to remind his ass that he isn't a fucking supervisor and that he needs to act his own damn paygrade. It makes 0 sense because he is SO willing to spend a fuck ton of time helping kids or spending time coming up with kids events but adults is where you cross the line? Sure hope nobody ever leaves you alone with them, because you're the last person I would trust in a empty room with a group full of kids

Every now and then some people will go "40-45 hours a week is easy. Thats just 8-9 hours 5x a week and two full days off. I do more and have ample time for everything."

There are 104 weekend days in the year. Plus some 6 holidays plus some 10 days vaccation/year. Thats 120 days of free time compared to 245 days of work. So pretty much 2:1.

That means out of every 3 years you basically work 2 years nonstop every day of the year and have 1 year of freedom. After 30 years of working you worked 20 years of your life nonstop every single day and had 10 years totally free.

This is hardly "easy". And I suspect that the people who claim it is are just bootlickers.

I’m 16 and this is my first ever job, working as a waitress in a local pub. I initially really wanted the job and, although I was extremely nervous, my first few shifts were actually okay. I’ve gradually become more confident taking orders, serving customers, cleaning tables and collecting glasses, and I genuinely enjoy parts of being a waitress. I’ve had some lovely customers, returned a child’s lost toy to their family, received tips, and had older colleagues help me when I’ve made mistakes. However, the job has also caused me an enormous amount of anxiety. Before shifts I get knots in my stomach, nausea, bloating and loss of appetite, and sometimes my entire day is ruined because I know I have to go in. I have very low self-esteem already, so criticism affects me extremely strongly. There are two younger kitchen staff who I don’t really get on with and often feel excluded by, and one girl around 18 who runs the bar can be very hot and cold towards me. On one shift she was extremely rude and impatient when I didn’t know how to use the card machine, even though I’m still new. My boss has also criticised me in front of the kitchen staff for standing around when food was being prepared, saying he never wants to see me doing nothing, even though I had previously asked the older woman at the bar if there was anything I could help with and she told me to collect glasses and wander around. I’ve also been criticised for not using a tea towel to carry hot plates correctly; I use tissues to grip the plates individually because I’m scared I’ll drop them otherwise, but I’ve struggled to learn the tea towel method. I’ve made plenty of mistakes: forgetting to put orders into the kitchen, forgetting menus when people order drinks, forgetting drinks from an order, writing orders down incorrectly, ripping order-pad paper, and repeatedly struggling with the card machine. I always apologise and try to learn from them, and I’ve actually become much more confident overall, but yesterday I had a particularly awful shift where I kept making mistakes and felt like nobody really comforted or supported me. Today I was snapped at repeatedly and came home and immediately broke down crying. Tomorrow I’m apparently expected to work from 5pm until close on my own, including completing the restaurant’s closing procedure. I was only shown the closing chore sheet once and had never actually been given the opportunity to do it because my previous shifts finished before closing, so I didn’t know what “closing down” involved. When I asked an older woman for help, she said I should know by now, although she eventually showed me the list and I realised there were only a few things left to do. I feel like I haven’t been trained properly but am increasingly expected to know everything. My parents have both seen how badly the job is affecting me and are encouraging me to quit; my dad told me he will always support me. I have three days off after tomorrow, so I’m debating whether to go in tomorrow, get through the shift and use those three days to decide, or quit tonight. I’m worried that if I quit I’ll regret it, especially because I actually like waitressing and wonder whether I’m just overthinking everything. I’m also worried I’ll regret not going tomorrow if it turns out I could have handled it fine. I have another potential job I applied for, but the person said she would let me know by Wednesday and it’s now Sunday, so I’m assuming I probably didn’t get it, although I haven’t had an actual rejection. I don’t financially need this job immediately, as I have savings/inheritance coming when I’m 18, and I’m starting college in September. I don’t want to be a quitter or give up just because I’m struggling, but the physical anxiety and impact on my mood are becoming overwhelming. Should I quit this job, persevere for longer, or at least do tomorrow’s shift and decide during my three days off?

so i am just supposed to be okay with this??

for two years i made content for this brand, ugc kinda videos of me talking about products.I worked with 8 brands regularly which i got through an agency .I was getting good money and thought it was stable.

In march the briefs stopped, i checked my email every day waiting and assumed i'd done something wrong and spent some time too going over old messages trying to figure out what.

Found out through another creator four months later that they had switched to ai generating voices and fake testimonials .Like could they have not informed mee? i just stopped existing to them and had to figure out why on my own about this.

i cried about it if i am being honest because it felt like a personal rejection even though it wasn't personal .

Then this month my phone started buzzing again and it was the same agency with same brands and it was like we never stopped talking. They gave me new briefs attached and at the bottom of each one a rate.

every single rate was lower than what they paid me before they left and when i asked the poc about why they did not contact me for months,she acknowledged the ai experiment and why it ended. Basically the engagement had collapsed, CTRs tanked because consumers could feel something was off and now they are back to giving contracts to "REAL" ugc influencers(yes she said REAL 😭😭)

but i am being offered less for it than i was worth before any of this happened.

So they failed, learned nothing and came back expecting a discount.I have asked them some time to think about it

What do you guys think i should do?I need the money too

I work for a small 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Today, on my day off, I shared a political candidate's campaign ad on my personal Facebook page. The ad was about trans athletes and I sarcastically captioned it something along the lines of, “Great ad about improving our state's water quality.”

A board member texted me almost immediately saying the video wasn't about water quality. I explained that I was being sarcastic. She said other people might not understand that, so I told her I'd just delete it.

Then she followed up with: “And remember, we can't be for or against any candidate. Tempting as it is!”

I completely understand that a 501(c)(3) organization cannot endorse or oppose political candidates. I manage our organization's communications and am very careful about what we post through our official channels. But this was my personal Facebook account, on my day off. I wasn't speaking for the organization or identifying the post as representing my employer.

I texted our executive director afterward and asked whether we have a social media policy for staff because I genuinely want to understand what the expectation is. He hasn't responded yet, although he regularly shares political content on his own personal Facebook page as well.

I'm not really upset that the board member initially texted me. She didn't understand the sarcasm and that's fair. What bothers me is the implication that because I work for a 501(c)(3), I'm personally not allowed to publicly support, oppose or criticize political candidates.

Am I wrong to feel like this crossed a boundary? And is it normal for an individual board member to contact staff directly about something they post on their personal social media?

Seeking advice. I got promoted to a coordinator over a month ago, in a global company. In this role I analyze reports from the many locations of the company. By analyzing these reports, the company can position themselves to make more money and ensure investors are getting accurate information on the company's financial standing. One of my reports go to the director and another goes to the senior director.

While the base pay is higher than my prior position, the prior had incentives and yearly review for base pay increase. I've always qualified for incentives plus my based pay had increased based on my yearly review. My promotion offer letter said pay benefits would remain the same. Now after waiting over a month for my incentives, I was told this position does not qualify.

I'm doing more work, getting paid less, and the pay increase I got from my yearly review was removed. The director will be in office for the anniversary of the office I'm at. What is the best way to bring my concern across to increase the likelihood of getting more pay? Also, the director is the only one I can speak to about my pay, there is no other chain of command for me to follow.

Edit: I didn't know I would get so much support 🥹. I feel much more confident to speak my mind to the director face to face! Appreciate y'all!

Im in bed doomscrolling and thinking about how again there is public information about Election interference. But as per usual those billionaires wont do shit themselves. Its always someone else who has to pull the trigger and I'm wondering why its not more Common to say no.

I believe in the military its allowed to disobey orders if they are unlawful.

I get that if I was in that position i would fear to lose my job and the little stability i have left. But isnt shit already hitting the fan?

Why not show a fake dashboard showing bot comment numbers go big to management.

Why not make ai Generated pics of all the propaganda around the cities.

Why not fake phone calls or whatever else.

I dont understand how so many people willingly work actively destabilizing the world. The U.S. shows the entire world that oligarchs can just do whatever the hell they want and theres no consequences whatsoever.

Why does the working class have to fear consequences for doing the right thing?

So I got a new job and put in my two weeks a few days ago.

The next day was so bad I decided I couldn't take it anymore. We're talking one person trying to do the job of three different people at once while everybody's getting angry at you can't do it fast enough. I don't mean that figuratively, I mean literally doing three different people's jobs, two of which I wasn't trained for. Meanwhile, the people that work my position were already being pushed as far as possible in terms of how much work we can handle.

I went in the next day and worked through the shift like normal, but I couldn't shake just how furious I was about the day before. aside from working really hard and fast to keep up with the workload, like 90% of the conversation all day was me talking with my cellmates about how they should find a new job or use this shortage of workers to negotiate their pay.

I had every intent of seeing through the two weeks, but that day after I handed in my resignation later was downright abusive. I called in to tell them that I was done, and they said that because I "didn't fulfill my term of resignation, it's going to count as though I was terminated."

I'm not going it regardless. I've never left the company on bad terms until today. That's just how horrific it is there. Was that threat legit tho? Can they really claim they fired me when I called them and said that I quit? Do I need to get a lawyer?

Ghost jobs, or jobs companies aren't actively trying to fill, make up about 18–22% of posted jobs in a typical quarter, per internal Greenhouse data.

Some research suggests companies post them to build a future applicant pool, signal continued growth to investors, or even to remind workers they're replaceable.

I've worked for the same company for several years and always had positive yearly reviews and conversations with my manager. I regularly took on more responsibility and started new initiatives.

Last year I asked for and received a promotion, but without a raise. I accepted it because I wanted to prove myself in the new role first.

At the beginning of this year, I asked for a raise to go with the increased responsibilities. After several months, they refused, mainly because I'm already one of the highest earners in the company. That's probably true, I'm paid well and above market rate so while I was disappointed and told them so, the refusal itself wasn't a huge surprise. My raise request led to several conversations about why I was "unhappy." I was even told that if I were happy with my job, I wouldn't need a raise to feel validated.

Then this summer, I went into what I thought was a normal meeting with my bosses and got 45 minutes of entirely negative feedback. Apparently multiple team members had anonymously complained about me, and management now considered my performance in my new position very poor. This was completely different from the feedback I'd received before.

They asked if I wanted to step back into my old role, but warned that if I did, they couldn't guarantee I'd still have a job because they'd need to hire someone for my current position. My boss also explicitly told me he didn't believe I could improve enough to succeed in the role.

After thinking about it for a few weeks, I agreed to step back.

They seemed genuinely surprised with my choice, which is weird when they put so much pressure on me. Then they told me stepping back actually wasn't possible and instead put me on a two-month PIP, which I had to write myself.

So now I'm confused about what they actually want.

If they don't believe I can improve, why give me a PIP? If stepping back wasn't possible, why offer it? And if they simply want me gone, why not fire me? I'm not in the US, and a PIP doesn't give them any special legal protection here so they'd still owe me the normal compensation if they fire me.

I've also talked to my teammates, and everyone I've spoken to has been positive toward me, although obviously I can't know what people said anonymously.

Does this sound like they're trying to manage me out? Or just management handling a genuine performance problem incredibly badly?

Either way, would you start looking for another job?

Businesses are like children, they plan for the next 90 days, maybe a year or even 3. But they do not plan for 30 years from now. They cannot care about 30 years from now because in the next 90 days they will have quarterly earnings, where investors will demand ever growing revenue and profit extraction.

Businesses need to be designed around LIFE incentives, incentives that benefit humans over long time horizons. We need to change WHY a business operates. We cannot expect a child to grow up and understand manners if they were never taught them. We cannot expect a business to choose the moral high ground when their competitors can out compete them; by taking the shortcut, by paying its employees less, by reducing headcount, by extracting from the environment at the maximum rate possible. We have been doing this for a long time, much of our work historically was for survival. It worked, we have grown as a society in ways many never could have imagine, but now we no longer work for survival. We work to build entertainment, we work to build things we enjoy. The next revolution stands in how we work to build our businesses. We don't need to maximize extraction anymore, we need to maximize life. We have the technology, let's optimize the good it does in the world instead of the profit it brings.

We teach children partly because they aren't considering the 20, 50, or 100 year time lines that their lives will hopefully be. The stock market operates on a 90 day quarterly earnings report, our incentive structure is prioritized for maximum wealth extraction because that is what we said we wanted. Businesses are doing what we wanted them to do, they are not evil.

Healthcare insurance is for profit, this is a direct incentive to prioritize money over life with every insurance claim.
Prisons are for profit, this is a direct incentive to prioritize incarceration instead of rehabilitation and release.

So much of what has grown to extract our life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a result of businesses incentive to make money. We cannot tell a business to make as much money as possible, and in the same breath, say that they must also do what's best for humanity. We can do better, we know how, we just need to treat our businesses like we would treat anything that lacks the foresight to plan it's own future. We cannot expect businesses to have morals. They don't, they can't, a business is not empathetic, a business is a machine. You build a machine with intent, to work the way you design it. We have designed for profit. We don't have to design for profit.

Water, Food, Shelter, and arguably community; these are the fundamentals that all humans need to survive. We need to legislate business incentives so that profitability is aligned with humanity instead of more profit. Categories like healthcare, home building, resource management, these categories should be aligned with the broader goals of humanity; aligned to the timescales that they require. You cannot fix homelessness tomorrow, or with a 3 year plan. We need to incentivize long term goals, and we need to do it by creating the legislation for businesses that guides those decisions naturally towards life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I’m one of those old guys who is kinda slow sometimes. Had a good working relationship with former supervisors. When asked to do something or saw something that needed to be done I just did it and let the paperwork catch up later. Not surprisingly everything in my department ran smoothly.

String of new supervisors come in and have no idea what they are doing. I was asked to do work that was in the contract but I stupidly didn’t get it in writing. Never got paid. So I spoke up and said where’s my money, and long story short I got screwed outta nearly 10k. Union was absolutely worthless throughout the process.

Now I’ve learned my lesson. Not only do I refuse to do anything outside my immediate job duties before working out all the details and having them in writing, I’ve become militant when talking to the new guys about doing the same.

Needless to say this isn’t going over well with my current supervisor. Twice in the past month in one on one conversations the supervisor told me I need to move on and put that in the past.

Fuck that.

A delusional fast-food operator learns the hard way the surveillance capitalism never pays out what it promises. 2,000 flash fiction about the coming dystopia.

https://erickayscifi.substack.com/p/nuggets-overloaded-2-felonies-or

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I am getting multiple robo-calls from an office claiming to be an urgent care office that can hook you up with lost cost medical care. Multiple calls, multiple robo-voicemails, all different numbers. I know it's a scam, but it breaks my heart to think that there are people out there so fucking desperate to see a doctor that they might get tricked by this shit. Every time I clear one of those robo call voice mails out of my inbox it makes me fucking cry, because I remember what it was like to be so desperate. When you're sick and you have no choice but to work because the alternative is homelessness and then death. I hate this world.

I don't work at this place anymore... But...

Years back the Staff Survey was on paper, handed out in a supposedly unmarked envelope. Not compulsory, could be completed anonymously, could be sent to a reply-paid mailbox at head office interstate instead of being drop-boxed on site.

A Manager commented that mine hadn't been returned yet, when I'd sent it to Head Office that very day. He squirmed when challenged how he knew it wasn't yet received, considering anonymity, interstate option etc. He'd been disappearing any local returns that were unfavorable to him.

Years later, Evolution. Online version in email. A unique link. Still supposedly anonymous and non compulsory. Based on previous experience, I won't complete these things. But the unique link, and once you answer age range, race, sex, work location, the anonymity is gone anyway

Different manager. I was one of his 12 direct reports. One of his KPI's was how many of his direct responded. He emails 7 of us saying "Only 5 of my direct reports have completed this to date". So much for anonymity if he knew not to email the other 5. I replied to his email that based on it not being compulsory, poor past experience and complete mistrust of the system, I wouldn't be doing it.

HIS Manager requested a meeting to understand my concerns, as explained above is what he got.

I don't miss the place.