Category: Antiwork

Throwaway account as the people I work with may frequent this sub and don't need to know my primary reddit account. I work for a midsize car part manufacturer in Southern California that just decided to have everyone come back to the office 5 days a week starting March. To “celebrate” this, I guess, the company put on a team building offsite event 2 weeks ago which turned into an awesome super-spreader event with at least half a dozen people catching covid from it. Following this last Friday HR sent an email to the whole company declaring that, hurray! based on new guidelines everyone who caught COVID can come back to the office after 5 days even if they are still positive. They started the email that announced this saying it was “to help ensure the health and safety of our employees is prioritized”. One of our company “values” is…

I'm a new mom watching my pathetically short parental leave clock tick away (while recognizing the privilege in having any parental leave at all) and finding it really hard to give any fucks about returning to work. Just wondering if anyone has any advice on how not to. I just need about 4k/month to cover all household expenses and bills. That's all. Anyone know where that's lying around so I can just take care of my baby all day? Genuinely curious how others have built a work-free life. Thanks!

It just seems like a BS way to try to get you to work more hours for the same pay. I know some places require OT pay for 40 hours but I'm assuming there's some kind of loophole or something even there or why would they do salaried at all? Im currently hourly and I feel like at my job if I ever move up they'd probably offer me a salaried position and I don't see any reason not to negotiate that but idk what you would say other than salary is a load of corporate bullshit invented to exploit the worker and I'll stick with hourly.

I feel like everything is against me. I finished working a year ago, resigning from a very toxic workplace which ended up with office politics which I had nothing to do with. I was in IT, and the final straw was when I was laughed at because someone wanted me to move a computer to a shutter door with no available point of entry for power or ethernet. They didn't even know that you need power to operate a computer. Ever since I've been looking for work. I made the decision to value my mental health more than look for work at my previous workplace and I've had the best time ever. To get some money I tried streaming on the internet and finally got enough to hit their threshold to hit pay-out. Because of the website's incompetency with security, I was harassed for some time with financial transactions on…

Hi y’all! Just for a little of background: I am an immigrant, living in america for 1.5y now. I was working for my husband family for a little over a year while I waited for my docs, so I wasn’t hired properly, so no tax or whatever. They can surely can confirm that I worked there. But my question is: for a background check they cannot find it, should I just tell the truth? Another question: do employers in america can check backgrounds of another countries? I have my graduation there, also experience, and I don’t know if they can or not check it, do anyone had the same issue?

I posted a few weeks ago looking for research participants, and I would love one more participant to give my research more validity. I’m a university student Majoring in Anthropology and Human Organizational Development, and I’m currently conducting Ethnographic research on r/antiwork. The interview should be short (roughly 10 questions) and will be conducted over reddit chat. All names (including usernames) will be replaced with pseudonyms, and my results will not be published, but if a participant wants access to the final paper I would be more than happy to share it. I'm essentially looking for information about how people were initially exposed to this community. If you have any questions, feel free to ask 🙂