Category: Antiwork

My SO is working at a very crappy company, the manager is a jerk and basically everybody is leaving after two months into work at most. This is relevant because his work is fixing the code that those people left behind, which is a complete mess. Also the management is horrible because the manager knows 0 about coding and about leading a group and basically my SO's work is useless because when he finishes fixings some code and he tries to upload it on github it is conflict everywhere because he failed to lead people's work (basically the jungle, with 0 communication between people and 0 real management). Because of this he argues that my SO is not making any work because he is unable to submit it. My SO, of course, reported this to the manager but he blames him for it instead of seeing his poor management work.…

I've noticed a trend at corporate offices where I get an email or Slack message from higher-ups with photos relating to their direct report's personal life. Like wedding photos, or photos of their newborn child that I guess my colleague had sent them. The manager actually broadcasts it to the whole department or company. For some reason it weirds me out, because I feel like these photos should be something special and personal to my colleague and not just passed around as part of “corporate culture”. I understand if there is a death in the family or someone is in the hospital, and management wants us to sign a card for them out of respect. But personal life updates to me seem really odd, especially when they send photos. Not sure if I'm just an asshole, or if anyone else find this type of stuff odd? It wouldn't even occur…

I’m curious to get a perspective from the anti work community in this one.

I work in a small workshop, just me and my boss. The other day he was out on a job and I went into his office to find some paper work, and heard porn noises coming from his PC. I jiggled the mouse to wake up the PC and checked his chrome tabs, sure enough, full blown porn that he'd left open. What is a reasonable response to this? It makes me want to quit as I now feel the whole job is a joke. Unsure how to proceed He's been a very good employer otherwise, in fact the best out of the 8 or so jobs I've had, which makes this difficult

I’m 21 years old. I work in a warehouse. I hate the inconsistent schedule. We offload trucks everyday but we never know how many we have until the day of so the time we get off for the day is always a guessing game. The work is shitty hard labor and it’s mentally and physically exhausting. I wanna work somewhere else but have no idea where to go. I don’t go to college because I don’t see a reason to unless you actually know what career you want. I still don’t know what I want and it drives me crazy. Is this really what life is supposed to be? Slaving away doing shit you don’t wanna do just so you can live and have basic necessities like a roof over your head and food? I wanna escape this shit. I just don’t know how. Does anyone here have any good…

I have worked as a chef un the US for about eight years. It's a shit job for shit pay, and I'm actively changing careers because my hard work has earned me nothing but body aches and a fucked circadian rhythm. However, I still need to pay the bill, so this has led me to job listing sites. More and more frequently, I've seen a large number of listings for $30-$40 an hour, which, believe me, screams bullshit in this industry. When you actually look into the listing, they are, without fail, always for minimum wage positions with assumed $15-$20 an hour gratuity added prematurely. I can't begin to describe how badly this boils my piss. It should absolutely be illegal to list a position for anything less than the actual pay rate. I just want to make a god damn living. Please.

To preface this, I live in Australia. Minimum here is $22, but there's an increased pay rate for casual that makes it $25. We also have this thing called 'super', which is like our version of a 401k. Employers are all legally required to pay it, on top of our hourly rates. Even if we are casual. ​ The caffe restaurant I started working at a couple years ago didn't respect these laws. All staff were casual, and many staff were getting payed under the minimum rate for casual. Additionally, nobody was getting super, somehow. Which would be a kind of tax fraud come reporting day. Despite crap pay and no super, most of us were just glad to have a job, and the staff tended to get along as he did manage to foster an alright energy (most of the time). A few cooks left and suddenly we were…