Category: Antiwork

I am in Gen Z. I am surrounded by people who CONSTANTLY complain that they aren't paid enough. And they aren't. You cannot live on $12 an hour and I myself barely scrape by on $15 an hour. Here's the thing though. If you ask any person my age (18 – 25) if they have asked for a raise or negotiated higher pay than the asking price in an interview… they don't. I'm not talking about protesting for the “Fight for 15” or voting in a certain way. I mean literally going balls deep into your bosses office, seating yourself across from them and saying “Pay me more.” And if you were unhappy about your wage and waited for months upon months before mustering up the courage to ask for a raise only to be denied you still have the same problem. And I'm guilty of this too. I've only…

i'm honestly done. all throughout 2022, i've worked mostly service industry at restaurants, one being a money laundering front that was shady as hell. had a short little gig at selling juices which was okay, but not really for me. after that, went to one last restaurant that completely turned me off from working for other people ever again. i've noticed that if your bosses aren't fucking stupid, they're incompetent. if they aren't incompetent, they're racist and homophobic. if they aren't racist and homophobic, they're stealing my my labor. after working at abusive workplaces, i'm just done. so i decided to see if i could claim unemployment benefits. i honestly didn't even think i would get it, given that one of the jobs was off the books and the last job i had hates me, but i jumped for joy when i saw the email from NYS DOL saying that…

I think it should be like first days on the kindergarten: first day you go for an hour, the next one two, and if you cry, you can go home. It makes sense, no?

Why or why not?