Category: Antiwork

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Just had my first angry customer in a while and it's got me in a funk.

I'm an instructional designer working on a course about career readiness for first year students and the content is great except for the first section. My boss is open to changing it but I have to have replacement content if I want to take something out. The section is very “jobs are just for money careers are for passion” and I want to keep an emphasis on life-long learning but make sure it's obvious that this is for a person's overall growth, not just advancing in a traditional career. These skills are useful for everyone even if you're not working a job that uses them or if you work to have money so you can pursue your passions in other ways. If you have any TED talks, videos, or resources that are openly licensed that might work, I'd love to hear about them!

Been with my former employer for 3 years and with no warning, I was laid off. It was a shitty job with shitty pay but at least it kept me afloat. It's been a year since then and I have not been able to secure a position with no other company not even a part-time shift stocking at my local Walmart. Throughout my 3 years and before I have been financially taking care of my family who I thought would do the same for me. Since I lost my job, I have been on my own financially with no attempt by them to reimburse me for everything I have ever done for them. This has been a trying time of realization for me. I never thought I would hit rock bottom this hard at 28 but here I am. I have always been passive but optimistic about my outlook for…

I posted on here recently that I think Office Space is the best anti work movie. But I have been rewatching Severance lately and I think that show has perfect anti work commentary. When I go to my job, I feel like another person. I feel sluggish and sick like when I’m there. My shift feels like it lasts forever. But then when I get home and relax a little I become me again. Does anybody know what I’m talking about?

I've worked as a teacher in different states in the US. I noticed patterns of mistreatment by administration. During the beginning of the pandemic, I worked for a nonprofit that blatantly mistreated students and essentially created a plan to fill empty classrooms with students, without resources so that they could meet quotas and maintain funding. I quit abruptly because I began drinking daily before work (tw: substance abuse) and took a job in another field that i have no interest in, but pays well. I'm a year in and I'm starting to have a fair amount of psychosomatic pain + an existential crisis about the fact that my current job has no meaning. At the same time, I'm scared to go back to teaching because I do not want to be mistreated at work or be responsible for any system where students are treated as little tokens for government money.…