Author: Olivia

Edit— one suggestion was picking a specific oil company or other chain to boycott. If anyone is familiar with these things, what chains are present in most of the 50 states that are possible to target with the most widespread effect? I propose that for the month of April the entire r/antiwork sub, and everyone else we can bring on, agrees to completely stop spending money on anything but food and bills. I mean make your car payment, your rent, medicine and get groceries and that’s IT. I don’t know how much of a difference it will make, but it must touch the economy enough that someone will hear us, right? One month without buying clothes, without ordering from Amazon, without fast food or restaurants, without movies, without anything. I feel this is more reasonable than a general strike given lots of us can’t afford to survive even 2 weeks…

So do you guys just want to stop working at all? Do you suggest this becomes the norm? If so, how do you pretend for things to function? Or is it just about looking for ways to not work or do anything at all? Is this a movement? Or just a general individual objective to find ways to not have to work?

It’s a year gap. Who cares. At this point I’m just going to say personal reasons and leave it at that. Some people might actually make money doing other things.

Recently, I had a disturbing experience at a gas station in NE Ohio. After prepaying for gas, the cashier accidentally put my gas on the wrong pump, and another driver took off without acknowledging they didn't pay for it. The employee looked frazzled, and her manager told her that “they” would have to pay for it. I assumed he meant the store until the employee walked to the back and returned with her own purse. She pulled out a crinkled $10 dollar bill and a few coins and set them on the counter. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The manager explained that it was store policy for employees to pay for their mistakes. I was shocked that a business would treat its employees this way. The employee was new, and mistakes happen, yet she was being forced to pay for the cost of running the business out of…

After all the posts about the SVB crisis, it seems clear that many here don’t consider those working in the tech industry to be working class. I read so many comments saying that the depositors, not the investors, shouldn’t receive access to their funds to pay payroll. Eat the rich, am I right? Except that the ones on those payrolls are not rich. They’re people like you and me that have to work to survive. They’re just people that work at some company – they didn’t choose the company bank and their company didn’t choose to invest in SVB. Are tech workers somehow different because there isn’t physical labour involved? Do the hours spent at work mean less because it’s on a computer? I work in tech (customer support, not an engineer and the lowest paid in the whole company) because I’m 90lbs soaking wet and have a chronic health…