Category: Antiwork

My brother took his life a year ago in March. I found out on a Wednesday night and wrote to my principal (I was a high school teacher in the US) that I’d need to take the rest of the week off. By Monday, I was expected to be back at school, teaching 160 9th graders, or else I’d have to use up the rest of my three leftover allotted sick days, which of course I used. I was not ready to go back a week later, but I had no other choice. On the day of his funeral and burial (two days out of state), I took two more days and reported them as personal days (of which I also had three leftover). A few weeks later, I received a paycheck with a $274 deduction because of an unauthorized absence. I alerted my HR person, who said she would…

Not only do I have no interest in being a supervisor or manager for the stress the position brings, but it is ridiculous for companies to act like the opportunities are more numerous than they actually are. There's no shame in not wanting to be supervisor or manager

I’m asking because I think my ideology is more so based in humans having more autonomy and self-determination when it comes to choosing how they contribute to society in a meaningful way. I think people will “work” willingly for the aspects of society that they feel are important and enjoy doing. Like plumbing, carpentry, art, etc. Im asking because I think it’s an important distinction to make when employers are using fear tactics to paint an image of a society in disarray because no ones doing anything. When the real “enemy”, IMO, is not working… but being treated as indentured servants and slaves in jobs. Jobs that happen to be owned by people who don’t need to contribute anything tangible of value (money is a number in the sky, now) because their wealth comes from being wealthy(they call that investment). Oops. Kinda turned into a rant. I only ask because…

Hi all, So this is more of a personal struggle post. Lost my old job a couple years ago due to budget cuts, so I took a job an hour away out of desperation and the overwhelming urge to not starve to death. The goal was to get the job, buy a house, and boom. Good to go. I'm now coming up on 3 years of commuting one hour each way, on top of a minimum of 8 hours per day work (so 10 hour days with 8 hour pay at only O.K. wages of $20 hour). I just cannot find anything jobs closer to home that is A. Not miserable and B. Pays decent. The housing near where I now work has exploded with horrible, run down tiny houses in drive by territory costing well over 200K, and anything considered livable bieng closer to 300k even for trailers in…

I handed my notice in last week because I accepted a new position. I can't handle to go to the office 4x week staring to my laptop (1 day is WFH), when this could be easily done at home, so I found a job which is 100% remote and for a better pay. My current job haven't had any job description in the contract so I strongly feel like an 'office mop'. Whatever is needed – they ask me to do it. After the first shock when seeing my notice, my manager asked me to write down a list of my duties and responsibilities and basically what I'm doing. Now she is asking me to write down SOP for all that ?? Like step by step, what do to in the system, where to click, what to follow. I'm quite conflicted here, I have not been given anything when I…

I’m so sick of this culture. I know we all are. The fact that it’s legal for your employer to write you up or fire you for calling out for any reason is repulsive. I was stuck outside for four hours in the early morning and had to help my neighbor get out of their burning house, and they asked me if I tried to get my shift covered? Then they write me up. They even told me last week I was the new representation of the company since I’ve been doing so well. I make these people so much money. Didn’t even ask if everyone is okay. Fuck all of this. When did we start put money over our community.

So, this story may not be as grand as some here, but I wanted to share it anyway, because it wouldn't have turned out this way without this community. Long story short, my employer wanted to give my crew and I some new responsibilities to help fill some gaps with a different team due to staffing issues. It wasn't anything too hard, but still outside the wheelhouse of our current job requirements, and would regularly pull time away from our current responsibilities. So after we were told this, I remembered the things this community has shown me, and I started talking with the guys on my team. Nobody liked the idea of new responsibilities, and with a little prodding, they agreed that this should constitute a small raise; if for nothing more than to set boundaries with our employer. So we went back and had a reasonable conversation with our…

I want to preface this by saying I'm not American, but I'm taking a combined sociology degree and find “tipping culture” fascinating. From my understanding (please correct me if I've interpreted things wrong!) workers are not paid enough to get by without tipping. So we should raise the minimum wage for the hospitality sector. But a company will not raise the minimum wage when someone else is tipping an employee to make up the difference In effect: Tipping discourages a raise in wages. But you need a raise in wages to eliminate tipping. These two points make the conversation on tipping impossible to have, because it is founded on a paradoxical basis. I believe it's also why every conversation on this sub about tipping ultimately turns into a cesspool with 0 ways to positively affect change, because pro-tipping or anti-tipping, the corporations are the ones holding the cards. War is…