Category: Antiwork

I feel so ashamed and embarrassed working jobs in retail like am I that stupid and dumb working here meanwhile my cousins and some friends are working remotely and some working indoor office desk jobs wearing nice clothes and have a peace to mind. I'm here lifting boxes and stocking then dealing with customer service yet don't get no sign of respect. Management sucks and low pay. Having to work on weekends too like is this what I'm gonna do for the rest of my life and I'm so stupid that I still haven't figured a way to exist from here. Like I have no clear path. Don't know how to level up. Make more money, find better opportunities and networking. Sighs. I don't have the skills set to perform in today's society. Majority of work is performed on a computer yet I'm not even super tech savvy. Never learned…

“Nobody wants to work anymore”; “But if you give people UBI, they'll sit around and do nothing”. Nah, I think almost everybody wants to work. I think people naturally want to spend their time doing something useful or meaningful or challenging. I look at my friend's list and see people writing novels and playing music, doing art and making stuff, gardening and cooking and canning and pickling food, restoring old cars and houses, volunteering for a hundred different causes, contributing to dozens of open sourced tech projects, teaching, raising children, and doing all kind of work that benefits themselves, their loved ones, and their communities. What we don't want is to sacrifice all of that to “earn a living”. We don't want to spend 40+ hours wasting our lives for someone else's benefit just to prove that we deserve to survive, while all of the important work goes undone because…

I’ve been in corporate America for 6 years. There’s nothing quite like being your department’s top performer for years only to see some lazy, borderline incompetent coworker of yours get promoted over you. The person always happens to be friends with the boss outside of work, their kids are best friends, something like that. I’ve seen this twice now with different bosses. I’ll be at or even below the level of another person, and he/she appears to have less responsibilities than me. When there is “level loading” this person gets off easy and their responsibilities are never equal to mine, even if I’m paid less. The person still underperforms and makes things more difficult for the rest of the team, yet the person gets a 15-20k promotion because the boss loves them personally. Just one of many demotivating factors in today’s work world, but it’s not discussed nearly as often…