Author: Olivia

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Whose going to research new technologies? Whose going to create medicine? Whose going to build buildings? Whose going to build cars and other transportation? Whose going to ship your packages? Whose going to grow and/or raise your food? Whose going to run your supermarket? Whose going to manage all this stuff? Whose going to literally do anything? I don’t see the purpose of antiwork. You need to have work in order to maintain a successful and healthy society. It’s not like we have robots to do all this stuff for us yet. It would be unproductive and maybe even set us back if everybody tried to stop working. Some people may dislike it but we need to to survive. If you don’t like the work place, fight for it to improve and people’s wants to be heard. Not to eliminate it altogether. Just found this subreddit so please let me…

The title causes a bit of a knee-jerk reaction for sure, but I'd love to hear if anyone else gets this vibe. I have worked a while now in several industries. Some shorter, some longer, some trades. Even a few start-ups that were getting their feet under them. And it felt like the more these higher-ups got into 'business', the more detached they became with everything else. Heck, they might even be fine to have a beer with, but once in a meeting or behind closed doors, they changed. Or, at least, appeared to. Currently I work for a casual trade gig. It's not terrible and it pays the bills. But the owner feels absolutely bi-polar. One week he will talk about the importance of mental health, managing stress, etc, then the following week turns into a tyrant with zero emotions and squeezes everyone into micro-managed stress balls complete with…