Category: Antiwork

If you aren’t an engineer, or if you don’t have an in-demand grad degree, you probably won’t be able to retire. Meanwhile, you have probably had to politely deal with a multigenerational tech shit@!& at work.

so my last day at my current job is this Monday, but before i put my notice in i asked my manager if i could work from home for an entire month for ramadan. for those who don’t know, ramadan is a religious month where we don’t eat from sunrise to sunset for 30 days. i wanted to work from home since i won’t have food or water in my system the entire work day and it would just be better if i worked from home. today i found out he called it stupid and said it infront of a bunch of people, not me, one of my friends told me. so i need some advice. if i go to HR on monday and tell them what he said and i have witnesses, will they do anything because it’s my last day? i’m also thinking about confronting my manager and…

I know this should probably go to some kind of legal advice subreddit (not sure which one) but, well… I recently started work at this gas station, and part of onboarding was signing some little thing that basically says that if no one is there to cover me during my lunch that I (in bold) “'voluntarily agree to work an on-duty meal period'”. I do not know if there is ever a plan to actually have such a person to do that, or the exact details as I am new to this and work in general, but I remain curious as to the legality of the whole thing. It certainly seems dubious, given repeated insistence on lunch breaks from elsewhere.

My son asked me a question months ago that still haunts me. “Mommy, when will you not have to work anymore?” At first, I answered the question logically, “In about 30 years.” In 30 more years I would be eligible to retire. But then, my mind quickly went to where my son might be at that stage. Likely, just starting to set roots and establish himself in life. Things for the working class have been in a downward spiral for a long time. He would likely need help. “Maybe never.” Even if we're not forced to work our entire lives, doesn't this system burden us far beyond even that? We are not a free people. We the people can do better than Capitalism. Wage slavery, health care tied to employment, and the list goes on… The fight is not left and right, it is UP and DOWN. Always has been.…