Category: Antiwork

I work at a new car dealership and during a conversation between some of the people in the service department and our general manager, buying cars as employees came up during the talk. I have been employed at this dealership for 9 years and during that time there has been no thoughts about repercussions if I were to go to another brand/dealer to buy a car. With how crazy the turnover rate is in dealerships, the GM in this story has only been with us for around 2 years. While talking at the end of the night last night, the topic of buying cars came up, when it did our GM mentioned that if any of his employees were to go to another brand/dealership to buy a new car they would be pretty much fired on the spot. One of our advisors brought up her possibly being interested in buying…

Complaining on the internet is not going to lower rent. If we really want to see a change ,something drastic is gonna have to happen ,as a collective. 2020 would have been a perfect time to do a no rent “protest” so to speak. We have the power. No one should be working two jobs to keep a roof over their head. They can’t evict everyone js 🤷‍️

Over the past few years I have, through working my ass off, acquired a skill that, although not much in demand, nonetheless gets me a steady-ish flow of freelance work (I earn very little overall, but the per-hour rate is now very good). I've been trying to get a full-time job (I want the security etc, especially as my partner and I want to start a family), but I'm not willing to compromise on pay. I know what my time is worth. I went through an extended interview process with a company that I know is very large and has a lot of money. The job required a specific skill-set and was highly creative and difficult work. I could see that the average salary for that job in that country was very high. At the end they finally offered me a job, but low-balled me heavily on the salary. I…

Does anyone else feel that the About section of this subreddit does not reflect the sentiment of the vast majority of the posts on this sub?

I am self employed in a trade style job and I love the freedom I have. It was hard at the beginning teaching myself everything and it’s not easy work at all I basically dig in the dirt all day but I still get fulfillment out of it. Do people in this sub have their anti work attitude because of issues with bosses or is it because they feel like they aren’t contributing to the advancement of society or is it something else or a mix of all. I’d like to hear y’all’s stories