Category: Antiwork

Yesterday I had a Zoom meeting for work for our whole team. The presentation was lead by my boss’s business coach. It didn’t sit right with me. The points that were driven home were bothersome. Such as: Small goals don’t matter and they mean nothing. And I’m sitting there silently seething with rage because I’m thinking to myself, ‘well what about those of us who struggle with our mental health? With chronic pain?’ Sometimes small goals are the only goals. And how you should always push yourself even harder even when you think you can’t go any farther. I get that, but I feel like it’s almost encouraging work related burnout which I don’t agree with. And the other thing was how you should always be honest with people even if it is harsh because respect is more important than being liked. Again, I don’t agree with this. In some…

I see the minimum wage of XX/hr as the wrong fight personally. it is a forever fight, by the time we get anything it is already too late and we need to start fighting for the new XX/hr and then we fatigue out and they win. I think we need official ruling on what minimum wage is for. We need legal definition of the intent of minimum wage. Something like – Minimum wage should keep 1 person living above the poverty line if they work 40 hours a week – Minimum wage should keep 1 family (a couple and 1 child) living above the poverty line if working 40 hours a week. ​ those are meant as examples but basically need a federal recognition of what minimum wage is. Then you just annually update it each year based on region or zipcode and what the poverty line is for that…

I can’t cope with my office job. I’m paid for 40 hours a week to do boring tedious work that I hate, and counting lunch breaks I’m in the office for 42.5 hours a week. My commute is 2 hours each way, so this takes my 42.5 hours up to 62.5 hours a week that are committed to work. I am exhausted by the time I get home and have neither the time or energy to do anything other than shower, eat quick processed food and sleep. I cannot keep doing this. I hate that this is my life. I am losing my mind and the will to live. How can I leave this lifestyle?

So, I just tried to do a basic search within this subreddit for Big Y and got no hits. Does that mean they’re a decent company to work for? Any leads would be helpful. I’m likely accepting a job regardless, just wanna know what I’m getting into. From the little I read, it seems like an okay place to spend my time, forcefully, (“at will” is bullshit, considering that if you aren’t working and staying on the grid, you get in trouble, so…)