Category: Antiwork
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Requesting anti work meme’s
Need some anti work memes, especially ones about working harder pays off. Spam me please. Need to show some boomers up.
I’m a teacher who frequents this subreddit, and I just had a presentation from a small group of 6th grade students arguing the case for no homework. Growing up, homework was such a normalized thing for me, that I never really questioned giving it to my students. Even now, I think back on my high school years and can feel the echoes of the stress of staying up until 4 in the morning trying to complete assignments. I learned how to take naps after school so I could pull all-nighters the day before essays were due. The more I read of the horror stories on this sub, the more I feel it resonate within myself. I’m sick (quite literally) and tired of the constant pressure I feel to work outside of my contracted hours. So why in the world am I doing the same things to my students? As of…
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The pain of the greeting “hello”.
Poetry from 60+ years ago. Some things don't change much. The Name on the Marble The workman that lives in the hovel, The boss that dwells on the hill, The sweat and the blood on the handle, The manicured hands in the till. The dirt and grime of construction, The carpeted floors in the hall, The flirting with death and destruction, The driving, hitting the ball. The names on buildings in cities, The nameless who died on the job, The rich, the minks and the kitties, The banquet, corn on the cob. The paycheck on Friday–existence, The corporate bonds in the vault, The union, the strike, the resistance, The placing of blame and of fault. The exam, the query, inspection, The son-in-law wanting the job, The waiting, the hope, the rejection, The appointment, the relative, slob. The saving of pennies in vases, The banknotes agleam in the jar, The worn-out shoes and…
Why do we feel so miserable about life and money right now? Why economy is not working in the favor of all? Why the gap keeps growing between a minority who has all & a majority that has almost nothing? Is it time to address inequality? Let's pray the Great Resignation movement will be the hope to adjust an unbalanced reality & bring a concrete change!
Last year a dean promised me a scholarship if I would work for her department. Well I started work and for the past five weeks have been asking where the scholarship is. She wouldn't talk about it at all over email and waited to tell me in person that she couldn't do it anymore. I tried to confirm our meeting over email but she responded in a different email with no mention of it. That's when I realized she's been purposely evasive in the emails so she could outright deny it if she couldn't get me the scholarship. That's when I quit. The scholarship was why I felt financially stable enough to go back to school. Now I'm fucked. If you are making big decisions based off of promises employers haven't met yet make damn sure you get a paper trail.
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The new normal?
I am interviewing for a job which pays £10 per hour (a few pennies more than the minimum wage). The recruitment process includes 4 steps (interview with the recruiter, the hiring manager and 2 role plays). Is this to be considered normal or shall I just tell them to f.o.? Edit: is a telemarketing job (in my native language, so shouldn't I be paid more because I speak a language they need?), no training, no career development, nada. It's only appealing to me because it's fully remote, BUT i will also have to use my own equipment (laptop, headset etc)
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Does it ever end?
Sometimes it feels like we are all trapped. The bosses had to be suffer hardships to become bosses and now the need impose those hardships on you to validate their past suffering. It's almost as if they made the environment healthy and functional, that means whatever they sacrificed (because of the unhealthy environment they developed their careers in) was pointless. Sometimes it feels like we are all trapped…