Month: July 2023

Perhaps r/antiwork began with a different meaning or purpose, but most (if not all) posts I've seen are more “antimanagement” or “anticorporate”. The climate here is just “I hate shitty people” rather than “I hate work”. I love this community. I love the attitude. The name just seems to be a relic of another time.

I debated posting here as it may not fit but I trust this community, it’s ideals and I feel as a sounding board it offers more understanding than what a business sub would suggest. If this is not the right sub, my apologies, I just need some advice. I am in sales. I am very good at it. I have a track record of rising to the top time and time again. But I am not without weaknesses. One of the biggest is depression and long story short after 2020 I took a deep dive and I am just now crawling out of the cave and back into the world. I went from being terrified of talking to people to to my old self now. Back in March I was offered a second chance at a sales job selling shoes at a high end luxury store. I’ve done this before…

My job is based outside europe, so we practically go into foreign countries for certain amount of time and then back home. There is no contract how long you will stay abroad neither how long you are at home. Usually in other companies there are some balance to keep workers satisfied but here there isn’t any balance and I’m sick from begin away from home 80% of the year. When I asked for a vacation in advance of 6 months for the summer there was no reply. So im looking for a good excuse, what could be the reason to send me home ASAP because even if I quit due to regulations i need to stay in company for one more month and i dont want to stay that month also abroad. Im looking for good excuses, in the end im leaving the job for another in September. I cannot…

I deliver pizzas part time. Today I submitted my time card for my hours worked. There is line item for Holiday Hours and any hours worked will be paid at time and a half. What happens next? My timecard is rejected by my manager. He tell me that Fourth of July is not a holiday. Like bro, if this isn’t a holiday then what is? The manager tells me that Christmas and Thanksgiving are holidays. We aren’t even open on Thanksgiving or Christmas. The manager tells me that “he has been in pizza for 13 years.” In the pizza industry it isn’t a holiday. Like WTF?!? I am so mad I just jump in my car and go home mid-shift. When I pull into the parking space at my apartment I notice the car topper is still on my vehicle. I rip that crap off and throw it in the…

Seriously? We're in the same team and sometimes we travel to the client office for work. Right now it's not an uncomfortable distance for me and we get to work remote most of the time anyway. So during one such remote meeting we were discussing how the client would be moving to a different office soon. I remarked that I wish they move closer to the city so my commute can be shorter, else I might just opt to work from home more. In fact, I do like to go into work, it's nice to meet people sometimes and have fun with them. Colleague immediately responds with how they used to travel over an hour at their last client, this client is still about 40 minutes one way; and a long commute is not such a big deal. They went on a small tirade about how people can't always complain…

Since recorded human history every military conquest was to protect the interests of the upper class and politicians. Every war has common folk used as canon fodder for “the greater good” or the “fight against evil” while a select few profit. Is this a testament to how indoctrinated EVERYONE is (albeit slightly different from one another, but similar overall; programmed to protect the interest’s of the wealthy over your own)? I ain’t goin to war, but I’m feeding the machine going to work everyday and spending my time out of it depressed watching streaming services and doing it all again. Are we too exhausted? Too docile? Too placated by new tech? By low costs from bigbox stores that we can only afford?