I Don't Want To Go To Work

I went yesterday :<

Let thy work come to you!

Me either, and the job market won't let me any dang way.

Im living this stage in my life too.

But in my case, it is not like I dont want to work, I just dont want to be an employee anymore

I hope AI starves all of my bosses, and the asshats from corporate first.

You guys have work? Can I have some? Just a little bit.

I feel you, I really do


You don't want work, you want money to live decently. Which currently is only obtainable through work. The system is rigged.


Being self-employed is its own level of ***, depending what field you are in. It made me suspicious of everyone and everything and took me a decade to relearn to relax.

We have an open office setup so I have to unpack my backpack of all my stuff and set it up and tear it down everyday.

Laptop, keyboard, mouse, 3D mouse, numberpad (because a full keyboard doesn't fit in my bag), charging brick, headphones, desk fan...

I was staring at my blank desk this morning just thinking how stupid this is. I'm taking a half day today so I'll be packing all this BS back up in 4 hours.

The decisions that are made at these big companies are getting increasingly stupid everyday.

Same. I love what I do but I haven't had a real vacation in almost 5 years since we started our current contract, I'm beyond burned out. I normally just power through and manage, but it's made worse that we're losing said contract in March and I've spent the past few months making and executing our own replacement/exit plan so things continue to work after we leave, which is a little bit like digging my own grave. It's made it a lot harder to push through burnout.

It's been rough given the state of the world and our industry.


Taking lots of hits on this lately, the latest (as of this week) is a 35% increase in health insurance premiums, which will bump me to >30k/yr in health insurance costs. It's something new every few weeks...

Good god, do you own a business and is that for employees?

I'm self employed and own a business with a few others. Most of the people who "work for" us are subcontractors from their own companies, so their companies manages their insurance situation.

I first gave up going to work when I opened up my hippie leather shop and lived in the back. REALLY short commute.

One of my employees once did a REALLY stupid thing. Like break out the fire extinguisher stupid.

"THAT'S IT" I screamed, "I QUIT!!" "You can't quit, you're the boss." "IF I'M THE BOSS I CAN FIRE THE WHOLE LOUSY LOT OF YOU AND SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN!!!" "You can't do that either." "Umm why not?" "You owe too much money."

Its so much easier to give up going to work when you retire.

Cool story sis

Idk. Seems better than abject poverty.

Did someone say burned out???my 5th day off in 3 years is fast approaching! cant wait!
be your own boss they said...

Statistics unfortunately show that a lot of people work fulltime, sometimes two jobs, and are still poor. Which means that working is not a guarantee of making a living anymore. Some countries have it worse than others. ofc.


Exactly


Thankfully that is not an issue on my side of the pond. But the inability to have a day off, or imbeciles that yell at you on a Monday morning because you did not reply to them on Sunday night, are. Among many other issues.

Hmmm… I don’t want to work, I went yesterday?

I thought this was a non-FFXI topic, so why are you providing my exact thoughts on Sortie???

In my case, what is killing me currently is:

1. Subjulgation. we always consider we deserve promotion, but know there will never have enough money to promote everyone in a department. Feeling at mercy of someone else, that have the power to give or not more money to you is kinda humiliating. My boss is a nice person, still I wnoder why Im forced to submission just because someone is paying barely enough?

2. Work at office: this year we were forced to labor 3 times a week at office. We were on 2 days at office before the change. And the expectation is, at some point, they demanding full week at office.

3. Office condition: IDK, but Im having serious problem with office AC, carpet and chair. Ive been caughting more flus than other years.

4. Having to do non technical work, like managing outsorce team or doing paper work.

5. Im just feed up currently: with this project of recording my playthroughs, my head is definitively not at my work. But this leads to my desire to deploy my full capacity for my own projects, instead having to support someone else project.

Here's a related story:
my company moved into a new building 2022ish (still in covid/hybrid mode). Never really had much issues in the original building and I had an office (not a cube!) Management said "its not bright enough".

New building is a mile or so closer to my house (so that's a plus) guessing its maybe ~6 years old or so. And there's a gym in it (a lame gym, but its free so I can't complain) and the positives stop there.

I could rant about a couple things (cubicles, dumb motivational slogans painted on the walls etc...) but what grates me more than anything is the near constant problems this building has. Several doors have been broken for multiple days, its been under construction and the methods of egress change, recently the main door was broken for ~3 days, could not get in. The elevators were broken for a day (I don't care I use the stairs) and then corners started falling of the building, one is strange, but a 2nd one fell off a couple weeks later, its starting to look like the roman forum here, there's been random issues with power and hvac too, I get things break but the frequency and mundane things (doors?) and nothing is fixed expeditiously. But that doesn't stop the property manager from sending out nasty grams about somebody smoking in the parking lot or having a car detailing service do their car (neither me, but when the main entrance door to your building will not let people enter for 3 days, i'm not sure you get to complain about anything anyone is doing.) I'd accuse it of having a poltergeist but no poltergeist would be dumb enough to haunt this place.

I mean I've seriously had to wonder if part of the building was gonna fall on me as I've entered or exited this place.

I have a solid job, nice coworkers, can work hybrid. Even with all that *** 5 days a week.

4 day work week when? Work sucks even when you love your job.

You seriously need to go looking because that's way outside the average for the USA. Self employed / Small Business owners can deduct the entire health premium cost as a business expense which lowers your AGI. Depending on real tax rate this can be a discount of 25~40% over what employees have to pay. Can also do HDCP + HSA combination and move virtually all health care expenses to the pre-tax category.

I'm tired of being an FTE because for some reason management puts more weight in the advice of hired consultants over lead architect employees. Getting people to do the right thing is such an uphill battle that needs constantly fought on every project or initiative.

I've been on the consulting side of this several times and it never made sense to me either. It got to the point that we just started scheduling meetings with just the engineers or taking them to lunch so they could tell us everything they knew about that needed fixed or documented. It may sound sleezy, but we were open about it and we'll never replicate years of experience they have with the project. On big projects they almost always know exactly where the issues are, so we can report on them and they end up getting fixed, but no one listened until we put it on a report.

It's really bizarre to me. I hope it's one of those generational things that fades out over time. The security space will always have it to some extent because there is more weight given to outside providers not having a bias, but the end result is often worse because said providers are usually garbage and the employees generally already know what needs to be done but no one bothers to listen.

What's also been mind blowing for me is how you can label yourself a consultant and no one fact checks anything. As a FTE you go through a rigorous interview process, but as a consultant people just assume you know what you are talking about, rarely do you get interrogated about anything. We've white labeled for folks who were absolutely clueless and made some big sales just to contract the work off to others. The first sale we did, I was fully prepared to be grilled on the sales call but it just never happened. Whole model is just...dumb.

The problem with consulting is you are bound to the ups and downs of contracts. Being a FTE provides more consistency, as a consultant when work dries up for whatever reason, you either end up unpaid for a while or laid off, there are a lot of peaks and valleys. If you are self employed, getting paid is a *** nightmare and dealing with health insurance is really painful. People rarely pay their bills on time and you are lucky if they pay them in 6 months with net 30 terms. I'm trying to make a FTE transition for this reason, I just can't handle the stress of dealing with waiting to be paid whenever someone decides to get around to it anymore.


Yea, I should include the amount of the deduction when I think about it. I just see the bill and it makes me want to throw up every time, but we do deduct it and I didn't consider that.

We tried to get plans through our business but we're in different states and the cost was much higher, but it is also more flexible when it comes to things like active dates and starting plans. The ACA rules are really strict and the policies, at least in NC, are not very good. I pay $2kish/mo for a 30/60 plan that's 9k/18k OOPM (in/out). We end up out of network a lot due to my sons health problems combined with weirdness in our local hospital chain so we end up paying an *** amount in medical bills every year on top of it. My business partner OTOH pays $4k/mo but pays nothing out of pocket, that's not even an option for us here.

Subsidized plans get greater protection, are cheaper (ofc since they are subsidized), and I gather are better, but we're outside the range that qualifies.

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They pay the consultants more. Indeed they have to decide to bring outside consultants in. They are fiscally and emotionally invested in the decision. Perhaps professionally too.

This is what I was expecting to find when I read this thread's title:



Even if I'm "lucky" enough to work from home, it's been incredibly more difficult each day to just get up, go the work computer and start my working day. Yes, if I didn't have the need, I would quit my job this very second and nobody would ever hear from me again.

Oh! And, by the way, I have a really nice job, which is of course not a bad thing but I'm just TIRED of working -at all-!

Healthcare is a privilege of the richs, know your place peasant.

It's almost like all those totes required shots and totes required body augmentations and totes required empathy for others that totes will never abuse the system will eventually totes affect you.

This is by design, comrades.

Next step is to get you to blame capitalism.

Too late. We already do.