Category: Antiwork

I loathe my job. And I actually like to work. I like to feel productive and social and I hate being idle. But the management is toxic. Very in to favoritism, cliques, passive-aggressive retaliation, no support whatsoever. The raises are minuscule with little hope for more. There’s constant push to work and achieve more, more, more, with no break or give. My current pay is so-so but there are good benefits. So my question is…how do you know when a job is worth it or when it’s too taxing on your mental health? I lie awake with anxiety thinking about being there and I feel miserable but I do have vacation time and insurance. So in this current climate, how do you decide if a job is worth it or not? Am I just being unappreciative?

Why do we accept being overworked is a problem so universally, yet fail to come together universally to fix it? I would genuinely like to know why you haven’t haven’t done more. I will lead with my reason. life is just comfortable enough to complain without being so uncomfortable as to make me change anything. I hope this post shows enough effort to avoid being called a shit poster.

I worked as a delivery driver because it save me access to a car which I wouldn't be able to afford otherwise and I needed to get my partner to work because we can't afford the commute. They charge me £200 a week for it out of my wages, I also didn't get anything for fuel either. They kept saying there wasn't work for me in the main depot so would send me across the country to places several hours away and have my first drop an hour from that. Then they change my hours for no reason so I was starting at noon but still had my 9 hour shift not including the 5 hour drive to get there and back because I couldn't afford to not take the work. Then there just wasn't any work and they had me poking two days a week, bearing in mind they…

This probably isn't the right place to ask this but idk where else to ask lol. Basically I'm in school and work 4-10 (store closes at 9 so I've never even worked the full 6 hours yet) since it's a 6 hour shift I'm given a 30 minute unpaid lunch break. To me this seems kind of pointless and since I'm never working the full shift I figured I might as well just not go on my lunch to make up for lost time. I was told that I'm supposed to go on my break and that I'm “cheating the system” by just staying and continuing to work? So is it legally required for me to take my lunch? I'm in Manitoba btw. I'm probably in the wrong just wanted to get confirmation.

Sorry for the format. So I manage a tire shop and recently I stirred the pot about wages which caused an uproar that my area director drove down to my store to chew me out. The issue, my guys keep asking for raises because I encourage my guys all the time to fight for what they are worth and he was infuriated that I would do such a thing. Of course I played stupid because one thing I learned is always play stupid till you figure out what is going on. So my punishment is that I have to transfer my position to another store next town over, which I refused and asked to be demoted instead to a store next door to my house because it be more convenient for me. They have been arguing with me that I not going to be demoted I HAVE to run the…

This was a “zero hours” (minimum 4 hours per week) part time job straight out of university (I’m from the U.K. for some context) in a shop called sports direct, basically a sports wear shop that mostly sells trainers and some other tracksuits etc. I’ve just applied for and “got” the job alongside 15 other people, this kind of business is one that has a huge turnover of employees like myself at the time, people fresh out of education and needing something to get by, the turnover is so high also because the job itself is awful, you have to work in a shop heaving with shoppers who are all snapping at you to get things they want, from start of the shift till the end, you never stop being balls to the wall busy To make matters worse the “management” consists solely of people who were like you a…

What: THE GENERAL STRIKE ™️ When: May 1, 2022, and continuing Where: Oceano Dunes National Preserve, California, USA. Who: Proletariat, working class people, non workers, hotdog eaters, non-hotdog eaters. Why: 1. To Advocate for Workers Rights & Better Workers Benefits, 2. It’s a Beautiful Place with a lot of space, 3. “Someone” donate a couple thousand hotdogs (free food). 4. Why not. How: How is this possible? Idk. We will be at the dunes for May 1, 2022 to approximately May 14, 2022. It’s a good spot. Bring stuff to contribute like music, food, water. What you do, be safe and have fun.