Author: Olivia

I might be overreacting. I would like some input if possible. I work in health insurance. I have almost 10yrs in the industry. My previous company, at the start of the pandemic let us work from home. Then they got hit hard, and I was laid off. It took me 3 months to find my current job. It’s essentially for a competitor. They do many things different, so I’ve had to get used to that. Also my previous employer was a smaller company, so we had some cool perks (out early on a Friday before a long weekend!) This is a larger company. We are treated like robots. There are “black out” months we can’t take vacation. I’m not even allowed to put in for a day off after October, it wouldn’t be approved. If I were to call in, I HAVE to speak to my boss, who determines if…

I guess you could call my dilemma a matter of capitalist conditioning. TL;DR: I work a pizza place job and I struggle to think it is worthy of a living wage and all the other fixings despite my philosophy deeming the wage necessary. So, my philosophy has always been that happiness and survival are human rights, just as the Declaration of Independance says. Part of achieving those goals iss, obviously, the living wage, at the very least. Despite that, I find it very difficult to bring myself to ask for more from my boss even though I work a measly $.20 over my state's minimum wage. Why? Probably because nobody else at my job works for very much at all, he's a nice dude outside of work, and the fact that I foolishly lowballed myself into this position, and it feels like a douche move to try and bump up…

After being fired from my job on Friday I am just down and depressed. I hated the job (mainly because of the terrible management) and was looking to leave anyway yet now that it was happened I don't know what to do. I have no motivation to do anything even though I have things I need to do. I am dreading having to go through the process of finding a new job especially when I have no idea what I even want to do. I'm 36 with no clue. The whole working 40 or more hours a week is so stifling. I suffer from really bad GAD (generalized anxiety disorder), horrible migraine headaches and I am blind in my left eye. In essence I just feel so lost.

I just want to say I'm a strange lurker on Antiwork because I'm actually fully disabled and don't work anymore. But I think you folks might be unaware of some very similar topics you have reoccurring that also reoccur on r/chronic illness. Believe it or not. We spend a lot of time struggling to deprogram ourselves from the life traded for money equals value. And yes it's a little different when you CAN'T work but not as much as you'd think. Especially since “humans” love to say that either you can work and your faking or that not being able to work means that others are being taxed without agreement to support your ass and you are drain directly on thier pockets. It's still about finding meaning when you've never been taught value to society outside of being financial fodder. You've probably never even considered it because it's never been…

Are you shills? Why would you criticize someone for anti capitalist sentiment on an antiwork sub? Many comments like this that seem to play both sides.