Category: Antiwork

I (40) have worked in healthcare since just after I graduated high school. I just couldn’t take it anymore. I feel like shit telling people they can’t be with their loved ones when they died. Then having to tell a large family to choose which 2 could say good bye. Or that we don’t allow visitors, unless you put your loved one on comfort care (withdraw treatment). It chips away at your soul.

Talking about respecting other's time, this VP did it as bad as possible. I was supposed to have this interview of a 3d drafter position with him and a manager, the manager showed up but not the VP until 2+ hours later… Then his first question was if I have any questions for him, which I already gone through that with the manager in that 2+hours… Then all the questions he asked me was pointless, I'll explain it in a simple way cuz of the technical words he used: Question 1: Do you know how to cook? Me: Yes Question 2: Do you know how to cook Chinese food? Me: Yes but maybe just rice Question 3: Do you know how to cook Kung Pao Chicken? Me: No Question 4: Do you know how to cook lo-mein? Me: NO Question 1: Do you know how to cook fried rice? Me:…

Disclaimer: I don't mean to discredit any other worker who's currently being underpaid and overworked in any other industry. I just wanted to be a voice for childcare/aged care workers as I haven't seen many posts acknowledging this. The wealth gap keeps growing and growing. The working class need to stick together and hold CEO'S and other higher ups accountable. It isn't right. CEO's wouldn't be anything without their workers. Idk if this constitutes for an anti-work post, but I just find it disgusting how grossly underpaid and overworked these workers are. They're literally the backbone of our society, but are treated like jokes. Honestly, how tf are CEO'S of aged care and childcare facilities paid so much? Shouldn't that money go into the pockets of the workers? Or into new equipment? You'll find that most childcare and aged care facilities are using out of date equipment. Hoists are typically…

I’ve been a chef for 25 years now. And we all know the restaurant industry horror stories. It’s 90% of the content here. Restaurants and retail. Well I finally found the job where the value the workers. All the workers. Dishwashers making $25 an hour that have been at the job for 30 years. You read that right, 30 years. Full benefits, vacation, PTO, great insurance. And yearly better than inflation raises. I just took the executive position, I was shocked that not only was it an hourly position with actual overtime but the rate is amazing. $55. They handed me a corporate CC and my own golf cart day one. Permission to spend $1000 decorating my office. 3 weeks of PTO day one with 5 weeks after a year! You mean when I’m stuck at work for 16 hours on Christmas I’m actually being paid extra for that hard…

But being right doesn't matter. You are just not effective. Your strategies and your PR are what are fundamentally flawed about your movement. You aren't packaging how right you are about the state of society, capitalism, and the working class in a palatable and easily transmissable way that will spread across the world and that will get the results that workers desperately need and deserve. Less than two million of you? That's not even worthy of a billionaires passing thought. They are still sleeping quite soundly tonight. Antiwork, your focus on being right while not employing strategies that get meaningful results will be the death of your movement. If being morally superior is all that matters to you then I guess you can resolve yourselves to the annals of history in exactly the same way as Occupy Wallstreet. Just a blip…a mere historical footnote. ..an interesting factoid on trivia night…