Category: Antiwork

I just recalled how crazy it is that show shot up to popularity when it first came out. How people thought it was soooo great for the boss of the company to take a day/week or so to do the job of their employee. The thing is, until that point, employees were literally just a number to them. Whether they worked at a warehouse, restaurant, outlet – the only thing the boss ever knew were the numbers they got back from the business or cash they recieved. If the business was bad they would probably cut jobs without a second thought for who the people were. Like this show was somehow was supposed to do what exactly? Make the bosses somewhat more relatable and human? That they can struggle for a day and empathise with little vicky who cant afford school, rachel who cant afford rent ot Jamal who cant…

Hello, since wages are so low in correlation to the price of rent and basically everything else right now, has anyone here bought a house with 3-4 other people? Not couples, but like with friends? People do this to rent but what about buying? Is that allowed? Just wondering and thinking about it

I'm a camera operator/filmmaker. Work hasn't been great since graduating into covid so I'm taking any work I can in my field. That's led me to my current situation; contracted with a small company i cant stand being a part of. My boss is a grandstanding prick who, since day one, has had no consideration for my time, especially when I'm not on the clock. He want me to drive hours away for work but not pay for travel, tell me he pays by hour for editing but that only counts when my ass is in the seat and he says what I'm doing “counts” (ex. I arrived at 6pm for editing, he only “allowed” me to edit at 8pm. I left at 2am and was only paid $50 because his internet crapped out for 2 hours). But its fine because he feeds us cheap pizza he keeps in the…

I used to care a lot. Came in early, stayed late, learned new software as it came out, sold my vacation days, etc. If there was a family problem, my wife had to handle it. 10 years ago my wife and I were on the phone during my workday and she said, “you gotta just quit. This job is killing you.” But I was trying to make our way in the world – we got kids, you know? So I moved to the next company, gave it my all, and it was the same dead end. I re-grouped and figured out how to do as little as possible while getting as much credit as possible – cherry picking all the easy work. One day at a team meeting my boss said, “We got 4 perfect reviews from the National Office.” There was an applause. “And they were all for Fomention.”…