Category: Antiwork
For a long time I’ve tried to understand the psychological and moral reasoning of folks who accrue and then hoard billions of dollars. It can’t be the behavioral of emotionally balanced people – and they seem to act more like addicts (sorry if that word offends anyone – it’s a term I hear from folks in recovery often). The behavior of Elon Musk makes it clear that he’s unwell. It feels like watching someone slowly destroying their lives and the lives of everyone around them because of an addiction. I’m not saying that to let him or Bezos or anyone like that off the hook. On the contrary, if we see massive wealth accumulation as potential a sign of mental illness rather than an accomplishment I feel like it could influence policy in a positive direction. We have social and legal structures in place to restrict (if ineffectively, much of…
I went back to work remotely when my son was a year old. We had moved a lot, and I did some schooling during his first year of life, on top of a lot of therapy. Issue is, even though I’ve worked in my field for 8 years, been published in journals, etc, I couldn’t get a job in it, mostly because people worried about my “family obligations” or didn’t want to work with someone who had been out of work for a year, or even one time because my sober status didn’t fit with the culture of the business. I took a service year with Americorps to get back into the workforce, because my son is medically complex and formula was expensive. I also just needed to interact with adults. I applied to this job being told I would tutor students in school remotely. That’s it My job is…
So I work at a grocery store doing the overnight stocking, when I was hired there was an extremely lax atmosphere about attendance and leaving whenever But we hired on the new GM and things began to straighten up and they started by handing me and a coworker write ups for days off they had sick notes for and in my case I hadn't called in on the days they wrote down at all, we were originally upset about this but they told us they'd be handing out more write ups in an attempt to clean up the crew so we said fine no worries and left it be. See now the thing is I have no issue with this at all, you'll never catch me late to a shift and I'll always stay until the work is done no problem right? But the thing is the supervisor and two…
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Shout-out’s to ‘non abusive’ companies
So instead of criticizing all of the companies (and bosses) all the time, is it an idea to give shout-out's to companies or bosses whom actually treat their employees like human beings with good wages and benefits? I know this is anti work, but I also figured this community mainly exists because of the lack of good employers (mainly in the US and the UK). So maybe by posting good employers in normally minimum wage branches like I saw some link to the website of 'Dick's' who offers pretty fair wages and very good benefits to it's loyal employees. Maybe this is a way to show it's not all bad and to set a new standard for how employers should treat their employees. Also it might be a motivation for people to not apply at those shitty abusive jobs anymore and instead be motivated to be employed by one of…
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I feel bad for my coworker
Quick read: my coworker got a really bad head injury and is stuck working despite being told by doctors to stay in bed. Mean boss/poverty I want to help them but I’m also paycheck to paycheck. Any suggestions? She is an awesome person that’s been handed shitty cards and she’s doing her best, her husband and child lived with her in a car until recently. They finally got their own place! And for context I’m someone with GAD/high-functioning ASD and have struggled in social situations and work but her and her husband make me having a job delivering pizza easy. No matter how bad of a day I have with customers and people not knowing how to drive, I always have a good day because of them. Sometimes they’d bring their kid to work cause they couldn’t get child care. Their a young couple (20-22) that stay positive and they…
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my first review at work
So a few months ago at my job, that I'm now on forced medical leave from, my manager gave me what I thought was a weird review and I wanted to get some insight. My manager talked about how I'm doing my job well, blah blah blah. Then how I socialized with everyone but him 🙁 (yes he added the sad face). Is that weird? Is it ok to put in my work performance review?
I'm so sick of this shit. We've been remote for 2 years and all of a sudden, this. It takes me 2 hours to get to work, and besides, who's to say that I would even be back in my apartment for the holidays and not working from home at my parents' house or away? There is no rule about that. Now I have to iron all of my stupid shit and get stupid fucking dressed. The worst part of it? I don't even get paid! I'm an intern! In fact, it's required for my program for me to graduate in June, so I'm literally PAYING money to work. I have been for the last 2 fucking years of my life. And since it's part time, with a some days in the evening and some in the morning, they suck up just enough hours in the morning/evening to the point…
