Category: Antiwork

And it just came ro my mind that if you do say it's for money, people say you should've studied better in school or whatever you were in. It's kinda sad how people think only someone who was a good student is worthy of a good job. There's multiple reasons why someone might not be a good student, mental health is biggest of them, some yragedy might've happened. Like I understand general education is better for everyone but why so much pressure and importance to this. There has to be people who weren't goid students but knew what and how to do things. People always say, 'Hey look at him, he failed his classes but he's a CEO now and yadda yadda.' But if you fail anything, the whole world come crashes down. They say take that as motivation but what motivation, I'm not him and him not I.

Are there any books, websites or other resources you'd recommend to fellow oppressed workers? If so, please share.

I posted on another sub reddit that we should have a 3 day weekend. More time to do house chores and other responsibilities while also having time to rest. So many responses were “I get all my stuff done in one day so this is a you porblem” How the fuck is possible for so many exploited workers to turn down anything that will make their lives better?

I started working for an employment agency 6 weeks ago. It's a 6 month temporary contract w/ potential to go permanent, with one of the largest banks in the world. I'm fully remote. I met with my manager via zoom on the first day. Other than that ive had basically 0 contact with my mansger. Ive watched some BS training videos (at My leisure) and attended random meetings (with hundreds of people), so I'm not obligated to participate, in fact no one knows whether I do or don't attend these meetings. My manager has yet to assign me any real work, or even emailed me. I'm getting paid a decent salary (>$80,000). My manager has about 30 people under him, including 8 people in similar roles to myself (temporary contractors). Maybe my manager is too busy and I've even forgotten about? Maybe they don't expect me to do any work…

So I'm about to just quit this job honestly. I essentially applied outside of my department because of a creep at work who, when I addressed it with my supervisor how this guy is sexually harassing people they said they would look into it. Never did. A week later I applied outside of my department for a management position. I am definitely qualified for the position, have had management experience before and the HR said they were strongly going to push for me getting this job. I saw my position even posted online after my interview. So everything was looking good. Fast forward I end up making a complaint to a higher up manager because mine did absolutely nothing and I had enough. This guy was going on about his creepy sex addiction and everything. Well HR gets involved and I had to make a statement to them. They told…

Long story short, I started a new job four months ago after two of my former managers asked me to go to a new company with them. I realized that it just wasn’t a good fit for me and talked to my old company about going back. They are bringing me back at a higher level/salary (nearly $20K more than the job I started four months ago). I gave notice the other day and both managers are very upset. They both agree that I’ve burned bridges. Is there anything I can do? I tried explaining that I just felt like it wasn’t a great fit and why, but they are still extremely angry. I don’t want to lose these professional relationships. What can I do? Returning to my old company for a higher salary just feels right for me right now. Am I a horrible person for doing this to…

So Thursday, I did a work trial for a company. Hated the job so don’t take it. I mention another job they have there, boss say talk to the manager who runs it and he’ll pay me for the work trial. I get call on Friday from the boss and he wants me to come in. I think It’s to talk to the manger about the other job and to get paid for the day I worked I turn up is smart interview clothes, turns out, it’s a another work trial for the job I said about. Didn’t even mention that in the phone call. Don’t see the manager or the boss. I work 4 hours. They tell me they got someone else starting tomorrow and they’ll let me know if there’s a job for me cos they don’t know their work hours and they’ll pay me for the day.…