Category: Antiwork

Hello all!! I worked as a salaried employee for a fitness company in their sales department. It didn’t take me long to see some of the dysfunctions with the ownership and upper management, not to mention the leadership carousel that was happening. Anyways, I decided to return to my old field of occupation. I noticed today that my previous company was still cutting me my salaried paychecks! I left over a month ago. That place is a joke. My question is: do I have any claim to this money? Should I just continue to collect until they notice, or is this a situation where it’s in my best interest to look to pay it back to them ASAP. It really isn’t much, as it was a commission based position. They’re paying me about $1800/mo base salary. TLDR: my previous employee is still cutting my salary checks, what should I do?

Mental health, physical health (either through labor jobs or sedentary jobs with long hours that don’t allow people to take care of themselves), healthcare being tied to work, excessive traffic, loneliness, poor social habits/relationships, weird retirement (retiring late or not at all because no money/no life developed outside of work identity), etc. Why does none of this matter to companies? Why isn’t the government doing anything? I feel like when I think about the stressors in my life and people I talk to (older or younger) it seems like a lot stems from this society that puts profit over people and constantly tells US to change rather than the system changing. I don’t want to just accept that this is our lives like our parents did. I want things to change for everyone but I don’t know how or how to do so without putting providing for my family at…

And for many people, lunch break is 30 minutes instead of an hour.

I realize that this sub-Reddit is anti-work, but how do you support yourself if you don’t work? I notice that the sub header talks about living a work free life, but what are some practical ways that I can do that, especially because I am on the cusp of starting that journey.

The last real job I worked, aside from gig work, was at Walmart where I made $12/hour managing four departments. When I started working there, each department had their own manager, and full time associates for each department. Part of my management duties were to make sales reports, where I had access to the cost amounts and profits for each item. Walmart loses money on groceries, and gains it back in abundance through fashion. Those $5 t-shirts in the kids department cost about 50 cents for the company (thank you cheap labor), so it’s a 500% gain on those t-shirts, while they lose money on most of the rest of the store. From the time I started, to now, all middle management jobs are gone (They just had a party for the shoe middle manager to celebrate 40 years with the company. Then they laid him off that Friday at…

I started at a big four firm after I graduated from university and was really excited about it for a few months. Then it really started to wear on me with the long hours and terrible senior. She would belittle me in front of my team Text me on teams every hour to “see what I’m doing” Micromanage my tasks and not answer questions that I had Anyhow she was a terrible manager and with the long hours I really suffered and felt like I needed to apologise for every mistake I made. After 3 months I quit but here in Europe there was a 3 month notice period which I had to sit out and endure. Within those 3 months this senior to me also quit or was fired idk. Now I work at a really nice company but I still feel like I need to apologise and am…

i’m going to be honest I’m just going to kms, don’t know what I did in my past life to get such a bad hand in this one. that’s it thats the post.

Greetings everyone at r/antiwork, this is my first post here and I honestly don't know where else to put this little rant of mine so I might as well write it here. This isn't nearly as bad as being screwed over for medical insurance or not having overtime paid so management can have a nice fat bonus, but this whole series of events still makes me furious just thinking about it. So a few years ago I started working my first job in sales, won't say which industry just to possibly reveal too much info. I so just happened to have a knack for getting people to hand over their money over the phone and I quickly became one of the better salespeople on the floor. The company was a typical “wE're A fAMiLY heRE” places but it was my first sales job so I was too dumb to notice.…