Antiwork 2: No One Is Getting A Pay Raise

[St. Clown]

I would say that you don’t inherently need to look for a job pertaining to your degree. A very solid manager to whom I reported had a bachelors in psychology, and he’s an operations director at a big bank now. An analyst who reports to him got a BFA in music, and he’s one of the best ops analysts I’ve worked with.

If you learned critical thinking skills, you can apply those to a host of other fields, if you’re willing to do that work. I tell my nephews and niece all the time that the don’t have to worry too much about the exact field of their major, unless they want something highly specialized, like engineering. It’s more about learning how to think through a situation and become practiced at applying logic.

 

[Scarlet]

For the past month, I've had very little to do at work. Which I'm not really complaining about - a lot of my busy times kick in later in the year. I'm not a strategist, I'm an implementer. There's a lot of strategy work going on now. My manager and two of my teammates are out straight. I feel a little guilty that I have literally nothing to do. Yesterday in our team huddle my manager tells us she got the go-ahead to bring on another person on our team. This person will be at the grade level I'm at. Once again, others on my team were aware this was going to happen, I was not.

Today, my manager posts in our department Teams channel about the position and also a short term assignment for a program I've worked on in the past. She neve mentioned that. At least not to me. Part of me is getting a little worried. I just don't see there being enough work to keep us all busy. Unless she is planning for a sh*t ton of work headed our way. Not sure what to make about all of this.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I would say that you don’t inherently need to look for a job pertaining to your degree. A very solid manager to whom I reported had a bachelors in psychology, and he’s an operations director at a big bank now. An analyst who reports to him got a BFA in music, and he’s one of the best ops analysts I’ve worked with.

If you learned critical thinking skills, you can apply those to a host of other fields, if you’re willing to do that work. I tell my nephews and niece all the time that the don’t have to worry too much about the exact field of their major, unless they want something highly specialized, like engineering. It’s more about learning how to think through a situation and become practiced at applying logic.

Exactly. I had a liberal arts degree (social sciences) and I went to a big four straight from undergrad. Degree didn’t really matter

Then I was dumb enough to get a masters and now it seems like a a big anti education environment

Doctors and scientists laid off by the Hitler youth are being suggested to take $10/hr jobs training ai. Beyond insulting

 

[French Rage]

Massive Slack outage today. I guess we can always default to Teams while they fix it. And live in a mud hut and eat twigs and berries.

 

[MichVandal]

For the past month, I've had very little to do at work. Which I'm not really complaining about - a lot of my busy times kick in later in the year. I'm not a strategist, I'm an implementer. There's a lot of strategy work going on now. My manager and two of my teammates are out straight. I feel a little guilty that I have literally nothing to do. Yesterday in our team huddle my manager tells us she got the go-ahead to bring on another person on our team. This person will be at the grade level I'm at. Once again, others on my team were aware this was going to happen, I was not.

Today, my manager posts in our department Teams channel about the position and also a short term assignment for a program I've worked on in the past. She neve mentioned that. At least not to me. Part of me is getting a little worried. I just don't see there being enough work to keep us all busy. Unless she is planning for a sh*t ton of work headed our way. Not sure what to make about all of this.

Just remember that you have the upper hand if they try to fire you for lack of performance. They have to document that it's a chronic thing as opposed to just making it up. You will have the upper hand getting the last years of salary plus full retirement if they let you go.

But I hope that's not the case.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Massive Slack outage today. I guess we can always default to Teams while they fix it. And live in a mud hut and eat twigs and berries.

Every time I use slack I hate it more.