Author: Olivia

So last year in March I started this job in a Audio Video Equipment store as a sales person. It was going good for a while but then I got Covid and was quarantined for 3 weeks. I wanted to go back to work but my whole city went under a lockdown and then it opened in June as partially lockdown so I could only work 7.5 hrs instead of 10. But due to cut down hours they also cut my pay by 35%. I still stuck there cuz I wanted to learn and gain some experience. Now after working there for almost a year they are always harassing me and pointing out my minimal mistakes and cursing me always. When I joined this job there were 2 people including me as a sales person. But the other guy quit a few months ago and now all work and sales…

Hi, I am very frustrated when I see a group like this. I dropped out of private college at 19 because I was terrified of going into debt. Took 6 years working / schooling part time to get a math degree from state school not because I loved it but because it was difficult. I currently work at a top 5 bank as an analyst and literally all I want to do is contribute to the company, clock out, workout, and study stats/cs books. My philosophy of work to be the best I can be or die trying has given me SO much joy in life. I also suffer from major back pain at 25 years old which does not allow me to sit at all. I stand for about 15 hours a day and now that I cannot run anymore (my favorite thing in the world as a teenager)…

Im really curious to hear your stories, because I only get maybe one or two bad customers a day in my city. I live in Manitoba, Canada if that helps. I just wonder how bad it is for other people? Ive also noticed a majority of the rude customers I get are people in their 30s to 60s. Not important but just a little detail.

Edit: I hope this is appropriate to post. Idk. I’m just so upset and need to talk about this. Please delete if this violates any rules. I don’t even know where to start. I work at chili’s as a server and tonight an elderly woman passed away at one of my my tables (stopped responding/breathing, slumped over). Her family let me know what was going on and that they had called 911 and an ambulance was on the way. I let my manager know right away and tried to help the family as much as I could. My manager was literally just concerned with making sure everyone’s food got out, parties on the wait were sat, etc. I was crying and panicking because I’m 21 and have never seen anything like this before. It was this woman’s 97th birthday and I had just brought her her ice cream/birthday candle like…

Video games are the new opium of the masses. They distract us from the grind of laboring everyday of our lives. They are the product of a billion dollar industry designed to extract profit from our valuable free time. Worst of all they serve to condition us to do as we are told. Complete a task, gain a reward. Do it enough and you level up. Over and over and over. Then when you are done, buy a new game. Compete against your peers to win points. Complete the task. Level up. It’s brainwashing us to be good workers, while distracting us.

This is obviously an anarcho-canine post fascist hegemony founded on the principal Skinner's front porch.

I'm new to the Antiwork sub, but I was hoping to get some input on this matter. So I've been a part of this company for a year now. Everything has been fine. No major complaints. But we got a new Manager recently. She's all about getting things done and has been the best manager thus far…but her boyfriend got hired on at the same time. He's a nice guy, but he hasn't even been here a year yet and he's already gotten a work vehicle, all his tools, and two certifications, and he got turned loose with no supervision. (A side note ~ he hasn't done this work before) I was just able to get my first certification, but I still don't have a work vehicle, and I'm still a helper. Another thing – He acts like he has some sort of special authority and holds secret information since…

I see a ton of posts about businesses needing to raise their prices to be able to support their wages. I am an accountant for a business in the hospitality industry. We raised our wages because we want to give a fair wage. But, COGS is rising and we can't raise our prices because it would become too expensive and would cost us business. I am 100% on board with if you can't support to pay employees a fair wage, you should close down. But what happens when these companies close down because they can't afford to pay their employees a livable wage because living expenses are rising and the only companies who survived are companies like Amazon who are the problem to begin with? Does that make sense? I've been thinking about this for months and haven't been able to figure out how to research it.

Get off the chair and do something.