Category: Antiwork

Ireland announced a new scheme offering generous cash grants to people willing to move to approximately 30 islands of the country's wild west coast. But some prerequisites have to be met to receive the funds.  The “Our Living Islands” scheme offers up to €84,000 (about $92,000) to people who want to move to the beautiful, sparsely populated islands on the Atlantic coast — which are not connected to the mainland by bridges and cut off by the tides.  “The aim of this policy is to ensure that sustainable, vibrant communities can continue to live — and thrive — on the offshore islands for many years to come,” according to the government.  I live in NYC, and waste so much of my life on the subway, and half of my salary in rent. I would love for the USA to do a program like this where they encourage people to move…

My company consolidated buildings during Covid and my role is a hybrid role. I’ve gone into the office a few times, but spent the whole day on virtual meetings. I no longer have an assigned office or desk and I don’t know where people may be sitting on a given day so the idea of face to face, spontaneous water cooler conversations is a total joke. I work longer days when I work from home. Management is unwilling to set expectations about what days we should come in, so it’s a cluster. Management hasn’t defined core hours either, so that doesn’t help. Curious to see how it’s going for others.

I don't have the math at the moment, I did the calculation in college and I no longer remember the skills to do it. But think about it: Money is taxed every time it changes hands, so when you give welfare after about 100times changing hands, 99.97 (3 sigma) is returned to the government in taxes. The conclusion is that welfare doesn't actually cost anything. ​ What I recall about the math is that it was a summation with a recurrence relation. I could write a program that reaches the same conclusion but I never used the advanced math enough to remember how to do it.

Hey guys! I’m just here for a bit of advice. I have a job interview tomorrow for a retail company that I am very keen about. I have a job in grocery retail that I have mentioned to the managers already. I’m just not 100% sure what would be a good way to organise/discuss availability when my hours are all over the place at my current job. Am I better of telling one that I can work Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday night and the other the rest of the week? Are there any better ways? Would love to hear from someone who’s been in a similar situation. Thanks!

Fuck it, the worst that'll happen is nothing. It's a grocery store, I figure if Starbucks can do it in a few places then it's worth a try. I'm preemptively looking into a lawyer just in case of retaliation, but truly I don't have much to lose at this point. We're painfully understaffed, we're all burnt out and exhausted and openly fed up with their shit. The only reason I haven't quit is that it pays the best in my area. Here's hoping.