Category: Antiwork

Over the last 25 years I have been working in IT, over that time I have been alternating between full-time jobs and Contract work. A large part of IT work is project work and because projects have an end it makes sense hire temporary workers until the project ends. I have been on projects that take years. Background The main advantage of contract work is that it supposed to pay substantially more than a full-time role, benefits on average add approx %15 to your salary so if your contact pays above that then it could be worth it. At one point prior to 2001 I was sometimes making %50 more, when 2001 bust hit rates plummeted, when things bounced back it became pretty clear that the fix was in. Rates were locked. Despite working across multiple sectors (insurance, banking, government) I have not had a real raise in rates in…

I got fired from my job yesterday. I am way too depressed and doing job applications and a resume and thinking about going on the interviews is making me suicidal. I’ve worked for 10+ years and am 28. Have anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder and depression. I’m in the bathroom after fixing my resume and applying to a few jobs ready to take my own life because I am too tired to do this anymore to just struggle. I find enjoyment in nothing anymore even sex. I don’t know what to do anymore. Don’t know how I’ll get disability for just anxiety and even survive on it. I’m just getting sicker and getting fired from work yesterday made me suicidal. Does anyone have any advice as a last option before suicide?

Seriously! Why is it that people accept things like high cost of living and high work weeks as the law of fucking physics when it is something that can be changed?? Honest to god I hate what the modern work culture does to peoples heads… I get that people have to raise families and all, but accepting no mandatory paid leave in the US, being fine with spending little time with friends, not taking it slow and taking the world in around them, not wanting to pursue hobbies more, or to self reflect on the world they live in, WTF has this shit come to? It's all about bills bills profit and not much else… The world can be a much better place if people start asking the right questions more often. Like why does cost of living really need to be this high/why can't it be a lot less?…

Hi. I live in a Western European country and am self-employed and work from home. I make about 60k yearly with about 20 hours of actual work per week. I don’t actually like my work and have always strived to work less. However, I feel I let work dictate my day too much. I usually feel very free and rested during the weekends and don’t think about work at all. But during the week, I often feel as though I should be at the computer working, even though often, I have nothing to do. This leads me to waste a lot of time browsing the web and social media. I also feel that perhaps I feel a bit lost if I don’t work. The amount of options is just so overwhelming that it gives me anxiety. Sometimes I just don’t know what I want to do and it paralyses me.…

I’m not sure if this is the right sub to ask this in or if there’s a better one to post this but I’m classified as a full time employee and have the benefits that go along with it. Next week and at least until beginning of June they’re scheduling me for 1 day of 6 hours each week. Is that even legal? I live in Arizona, which is notoriously terrible for labor rights but hopefully at least this is illegal.

My company give us a flexible work week schedule. During onboarding they tried to explain what that is but I’m still confused as I have to work 40 hours a week minimum and the same schedule every week Tue-Sat 9am-6pm. They also do not provide time and a half for overtime. Instead they only pay half your hourly rate for any overtime. They said this is because of the flexible work week. A few people in my onboarding class live in a different state where that’s not allowed so they get the normal time and a half. Can anyone explain how they’re able to get away with this? It’s a job that requires a lot of overtime and I don’t think it’s fair to pay most of your employees half their rate while others get 1.5.

I just started a new job a little over a month ago and at first they were all about working from home, come into the office as needed (there are some projects that do require to be in the office but they're few and far between). A few weeks ago we were told that they wanted everyone in on Wednesdays regardless of the project. Annoying but we put up with it. Now they want us to come in 1 full week during the month and every Wednesday. Next week is our first full week in the office and I'm seething. I hate to leave the job, I like the projects but I don't like how they're passively making us return to the office… Furthermore, they have 2 full time positions they want to fill but nobody will bite because they don't like a hybrid (LOL) schedule. Irony? Edited for clarity

So I work in medical manufacturing, laser marking specifically. It’s kinda weirdly technical job with not a lot of operators in my area. There also happens two be two competing companies in my area. I applied at one on a whim and lied about how much I was making. They made an offer at 27/hr. I told my supervisor that and she knew how fucked my current company would be. There’s only one other person in laser and I was adamant that I don’t want my pay to be above theirs (they have waaaay more tenure and do most of the programming). Well I received the counter offer of 27.25 and my coworker will be getting a bump in pay as well. Only reason I am staying is out of solidarity for my coworker and this benefits both of us. Tl;dr fuck work but also support your coworkers

Look out for the new phrase, “work-life harmony”, instead of “work-life balance”. Apparently the latter suggests there are tradeoffs between the two (which there are), whereas the former is more harmonious. Ugh. Just ugh.