Category: Antiwork

The title pretty much sums it up. I work in a restaurant that has taken a deep nose dive quickly as far as employee health and welfare goes. I'm not even sure if restaurant unions exist, or what they would be called. Many if not all BOH employees have been secretly discussing this and we have a 100% agreement rate that this is the step that needs to be taken. Now we are gradually testing the water with FOH employees and getting their opinions. We know that we must be organized and working in solidarity and secrecy before this is brought to management. I'm located in Minneapolis, MN if that helps anyone make some suggestions.

I work quality control for a company that provides customer service for the health care industry. As I was hired during the pandemic and am fortunate enough to work from home. I have to spend one day a month on the office, as I did recently.. This morning the company released an updated dress code, specifically to ban Ugg boots? I'm a guy, and this doesnt affect me in the slightest, but 98% of the women I saw on my day in the office were in Ugg boots or a knock off. With stupid, arbritrary, made up rules like this, and they wonder why people are quitting in droves. Now I'm sure no one is quitting over boots.. But just what is the fucking point. We start with a new hire class of 25 and at the end, we have 4-5 that stick around? This isn't the Navy Seals. I…

It is strange how most employees do not consider inflation a pay decrease. When I told my coworkers they just got a 7 percent pay decrease, they laughed at me. This is part of the business paradigm in the U.S. that is hurting all workers.

Jeff Bezos is worth about $180 billion. Compared to the net worth of the average millennial of $72,000 (according to Business Insider, surely a huge overestimate): 1/4 of 1/4 of 1 percent of millennial worth = $47.50 1/4 of 1/4 of 1 percent of Bezos worth = $112.5 million Yup. A hundred mil in his pocket feels like $50 in ours. If you cashed us out in hundred dollar bills it would weigh as much as a bottle of water. If you cashed out Bezos, it would weigh as much as 2 cargo ships. This is what buying stuff feels like for him: $50k student loan payoff = tootsie roll $750,000 home = Pack of gum Learjet 45 = bottle of Coke Business class hotel = gallon of milk F-16 fighter jet = pack of cigarettes Boeing 747 airliner = speeding ticket 10 fully equipped Metro area hospitals = PlayStation…

I graduated college 2 decades ago and I'm still paying off student loans for an education that proved to be useless (My parents and guidance counselor didn't want me to be a loser like those tradesmen!). I'm unemployed/looking for work and I'm at a weird place in my career where I need to learn new skills. Problem is there's no more on-the-job learning anymore, every employer wants you to be a fully-formed employee that fits their exact needs that they don't have to train. And every job is so specialized that, for the most part, skills you do end up using in one job probably aren't transferrable to another job. To get ahead, the options available to most people are: 1) Go back to college for 4 years and get in even more debt 2) Take a bootcamp and spend money you don't have (Most don't offer flex payment or…