Category: Antiwork

Let me start off by saying I am a salaried employee working in the pharmaceutical industry. I don’t want to complain because I know there are people who have it much worse than I do, but I digress.. I am just so tired of working. Day in and day out, all of us give the majority of our lives to companies who don’t give a shit about us. Unless we get lucky enough to come into a lot of money on our own, we put the majority of our lives on hold and in the greedy hands of corporations. They don’t care who we are, what we struggle with, or have any respect for our time or lives as human beings. We are simply productivity robots. It’s so sad and depressing. We can’t even be ourselves- we have to have a work facade during business hours. At my job specifically,…

Hey antiwork! I have a contribution. As I type them, I'm sitting at the bar at 11a just calming tf down from having been fired about 30 minutes ago. I worked for a nonprofit for 3+ years. When I initially started, I took my position to a whole new level. I added about 65% more work from the person who held it before me. For the first 2 years it was great! Hard work, but I don't mind hard work when I have confidence and ardor of my superiors. About 6 months ago, our general manager left, causing my immediate manager to move up into her position. A coworker took the position immediately above me. When the switch happened I was so happy for both of them! I also got constant reassurances from my former coworker that nothing quotidian change and she trusted me to do my job and that…

Long (I originally wrote “short story” but had to change it, LOL) story: I've worked at a successful farm for almost 7 years. Averaging 20-30ish employees. We pasture raise all different animals for eggs and meat across hundreds(?) of acres of land. The grass grows better behind where the animals go, so I love it, for what I do there. We sell super premium meat and eggs, that I could never afford, or even consider buying because they're at least 3x store brand prices. We have a public store, ship all over, big events at the farm. About my work exp. prior to the farm: college with bachelors in tech stuff, 10 years in photo tech industry, network adminstrator, 4 years prior farming. Some of my recent titles have been “weekend manager and tech guy,” – among others over the years. I know the whole system and can fix or…

​ from Zack Bornstein on tw: the studios have lost more money in 3 weeks of writers' strike than the WGA is asking for total in 3 years, and i feel like even AI could figure out what to do here