Category: Antiwork

I work as a project coordinator for a large healthcare company and dedicate my entire time to this one project. I used to do another one in addition when both projects were smaller, but I got moved to cover my main project as it had doubled in size and workload. There's another teammate that took over the smaller project in addition to her other duties, but whenever she took PTO I'd have to cover. Now that my main project has tripled in size and workload (they're aware of this), they promised another teammate would be cross-trained to cover if the other gal went on PTO so I wouldn't have to. There have been two instances this year where I still had to cover and I told them “Every time I have to cover, I fall behind on my main project. I'm gonna take up a lot of overtime doing this”…

Just wondering if mine and my coworkers' attempts to remain fully remote are even going to have a chance. Mostly everyone is upset with this change, of course, and many of us will have an hour commute or more. Mine will be over an hour and a half. We were told that remote was here to stay, so many of us moved further away from work (office is in a very hcol area). They want us to talk about what we think of the change but it seems like it's just them wanting to portray the illusion that they care, when the decision is probably final and not up for negotiation. Just curious though if anyone's been able to sway their employer to stay fully remote!

It's always encouraging to see any number of the American proletariat highlighting the abuses of the bourgeoisie. Posts on this sub and on other platforms are a good sign. BUT… At the risk of diminishing these positive signs, I gotta tell yas, I see a sign up ahead that says, “no farther.” Those who adjust the dials on this system know full well those jobs we all point to while yelling WTF will – come hell or high water – get done. Starvation and homelessness have always been effective levers, and that has not changed. As long as the barely satisfied are unwilling to risk what they have to help the desperate, the fine tuning currently underway will achieve corporate goals, and they'll do so in short order. A general strike, in which sufficient numbers of the employed cease all economic activity, namely working, to strengthen the bargaining position of…

I just need to celebrate this a bit. Nobody gets it, but I feel like this sub will. I am so sick that I am bedridden and will be for the foreseeable future. It's obviously devastating. Until January I was a database manager and I made $70k at a nonprofit. being sick absolutely sucks, I can't see friends, I can barely talk to my partner and I have to eat meal replacements for 2 out of 3 meals because my digestion is fucked. I am completely miserable and so is my partner (who has to take care of literally everything in our lives now). However. I no longer report to a boss, and I don't expect I ever will ever again. And that is something nice to hold onto.