Category: Antiwork

I used to leave early to talk to people at the coffee shop and to buy books at the bookstore before going in. I used to go above and beyond on all of my duties. I think I need a change. I will hopefully be able to exit retail within a few years and find work in a lab after obtaining my graduate certificate in Biotech. I don’t know if that’ll be enough to start a new career but I hope to God it is. I’m on the spectrum and working retail has always been especially rough on me. But it was the only sector I could work in with a flexible schedule so that I could attend school/have time to myself when needed.

I work for a company that has put our floor on rotating shift, I'll be starting the 2-10 shift tomorrow. HOWEVER even though we're working the same hours as regular shift workers (8 hours) they have told us we will lose our two 15 minute breaks, and our lunch break will be reduced from 45 minutes, to 30 minutes. Also, because we have been off today due to Bank Holiday, Friday we have to work an extra 30 minutes to make up for it. Now I know this is legal, but regular shift workers work 8 hour shifts and get 2 breaks and a 45 minute lunch break. They've told us we will only have one 30 minute break so we can finish earlier on a Friday and only have to work 5 hours on a Friday, but the regular shift workers only work 6 hours on a Friday anyway,…

Sure, landlords are terrible as a concept, but companies whose whole business model is making you pay to shop, get medical services or, the worst of all, go to work… Aren't they at least just as bad? In North America, public transit is severely lacking, and charging people to park to go to work or a hospital is disgusting. This rarely gets discussed but I think it deserves a conversation.

I dropped into a bar for some lunch, and there is a guy who is doing an orientation for a new employee for a moving company at the bar. I am listening in, because why the fuck not? First off, he wants to bring everyone on as a contractor, not an employee. Fine, whatever, he is talking like a big ol d bag for quite some time (if you crash one of my trucks and I like you, no drug test, but if your a fuck, I’ll drug test you and get you fired.) Then he hits this poor guy with a “this is a new policy- of you call out for whatever reason and someone else covers your shift, you have to pay their hourly rate for the time they worked for you. So not only do you not make money, you lose it” I made eye contact with…

I hate working in the corporate world. Almost every job posting is at an agency, a financial services company, insurance companies, etc. — not all job postings are from necessarily evil companies, but still they are at places I wouldn’t feel good about working because they don’t put people first. Indeed is slightly better, especially when it comes to finding non-profit, higher Ed, or government job postings. Does anyone have some job site recommendations?

I have a seasonal job, have 4-6 months off in the winter. Wondering ethically / philosophically, is collecting unemployment antithetical to the ideals of antiwork movement?

As the post says I put my two weeks in today. I have an interview tomorrow so I have hopes for that but I am tired of this place. I am tired of being the only caregiver who cares about her residents and the only one who does their job. I am tired of no one helping me lift people or help transfer them because they think I’m a bitch and selfish. (A whole other story that I think I posted here I don’t remember) I’m tired and I know this probably isn’t the right thing to do but I have had enough. Update: link to original post. I thought it was going to get better but it hasn’t. https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/zvzhyi/asked_for_a_mental_health_day_and_got_laughed_at/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

It’s normal for someone to work more than 40 hrs on salary and some people wear it with a badge of honor. “I have to work nights to get stuff done”… no you don’t unless you’re saving lives or delivering babies. Salaried is great unless you have a hard time finding and enforcing life/work balance. My work is project finance based. I know a week or so each month I won’t have much on my plate and will get away with 15-20 hrs total. The other weeks I know I’ll work 35 to 50 hours and call it even for my downtime. I had to change my mindset from a “have to work 40 hrs a week” to a “am I getting what is expected of me done? Yes! Great!” But use the 40 hrs as a threshold to make sure I don’t burn out. It took me a while…