Category: Antiwork

You are only considering your current problems and nobody else’s. The school loan crisis is terrible but all I see are people talking about how it affects them and not necessarily how it’ll affect everyone else in the future. “Just wave the wand over me and everything will be fine.” You expect a bandaid then what? The system continues as normal and your kids get price gouged? Why not? Free tuition with a sub category of eliminating previous student debt.

I can't live off 17$ an hour anymore. But I wanna change my field to something else. How are some of you getting good wages by changing fields?

Edit: TL;DR: Waited a 7 months for a promised raise and promotion at shitty organization. Left immediately from high profile project when that didn't come through. Sowed mild chaos and discontent on my exit. Walked away with my bonus and started new job paying more in better environment. I quit my job a few weeks back. I know some of you here are in retail or warehouse labor and you don't want to hear the grumblings of someone making 6 figures but there is exploitation at every level. This happens aggressively to those on an immigration visa. The companies cry “the talent doesn't exist here in the US so we need immigrants.” Those who have mobility use it and they leave bad companies. Those that can't are basically slaves to their immigration status. It's exploitative and wrong and it bothers me. I don't have that problem but it shows the…

Why aren't we posting the names of these shitty companies? Not exactly the people behind them. But the business itself? What change do we expect companies to do if we don't hold them accountable for the actions of their employees? We know our employees will use our social media presence as a way of representing the brand and anything outside of working hours is judged as if we were on the clock, why don't we take the actions of actions that were actually done on the clock by management and put them on blast? Just a question. Because I wanna see change in our capitalistic society.

Anyone else subjected to wasting time each day filling out health metrics on this or a similar app? My company previously reduced monthly insurance costs for the year if you produced a copy of your health screening results (blood test, general physical) but apparently that was too useful and convenient. For the last few years, we’ve had to carrot and stick our way through this pointless Pulse app in order to accrue points for an overall cost reduction on health insurance for the following year. “Did you drink water today?” “Did you eat a healthy breakfast?” “True or false: sleeping 8 hours a day makes you feel better.” “Join a team and dance your way across the globe with steps!” Give me a break. Stop stealing even more of my time and what little motivation I have left for my job at this point.

It's been a year since it all happened. I feel like I can talk about this now. Please be aware that this is a long post. My parents founded a small business in the 80s in international sports media production. Over time, they transitioned into the broadcasting/signal transmissioning business. I grew up expecting to join the company after I graduated. I'd take it over when they retired. At the time, we had three employees (the engineer, myself, and my dad). It was all going well. In 2020, I graduated from university and started working with my dad.  But then COVID came. The sports industry died, and we couldn't pay the bills for rent (the landlord knew we couldn't move due to our equipment on the roof and had been hiking up the rent). They were forced to sell the company. My mum became a 40% shareholder while my dad was…