Month: May 2022

Hello r/antiwork, As a person who owns a company that both manufactures consumer products and is gearing up to launch a line of automated CNC tools designed for single-proprietor and small business use, I'm curious to have a discussion around automation and the future of work. Obviously, I'm a strong advocate of automation, having experienced its benefits as both a single-person (me) company and as an employer of 70 people. I've found that automation is the fastest path to being able to pay higher salaries. The trouble I see is that we can go down one of two paths: concentrating ownership of the value created by automation in the hands of a few (bad outcome IMHO) or distribute ownership of automation so that the value it creates is felt as directly as possible by individuals. At least in the manufacturing sector, automation is on the verge of becoming incredibly affordable…

For context I just started a week ago at a restaurant. I serve and just started training on bar. I realized this environment was not for me. Very hypocritical management and passive aggressive wannabe management coworkers. Yesterday I told my boss I'm not going to do my bartender training anymore. I will be looking for something else I just don't think this is the place for me. He agreed to cut my bar shifts and leave me on for serving. This morning he calls me and tells me I'm let go because “you're not the right fit for us” I asked why 3 times and he repeated himself every time. So I hung up. Is this even legal? I'm shook

Most people don't question the contradictory nature of democracy and capitalism, even though, in hindsight, it seems relatively obvious. Democracy is the largely political idea that every member of a society deserves power over that society, and is depicted as being fair. Capitalism is the largely economic idea that the most successful of a society deserve power over that society, and is also depicted as being fair. In mainstream democratic as well as capitalist thought, these two ideas are both fair and compatible. However, while they may supposedly both be fair, there are many different kinds of fairness. While democracy is pretty well-understood, we should first go into some depth about capitalism. Capitalism bases itself on the private ownership of the means of production. This differs from prior systems like feudalism, which put the means of production into the hands of the state or a similar entity with mainly political…

I work at a small retail store and about five months ago a breaker blew causing the store to shut down for the day it just blew again but this time they are making us stay, its not impossible to do work but I was more concerned about health. many of my coworkers are disabled to varying levels of risk. There is no air circulation so I am worried about COVID and it is really hot.

How did your prospective employer react to you applying/interviewing despite having a new job? How soon after your new job did you leave? I’m gearing up to starting my new job in a week but feel like I may have sold myself short given my experience. My colleagues are encouraging me to continue applying to places but I’ve never left a job before making a year.