Category: Antiwork

I’m going to be transparent when I say I’m a senior in high school. My parents told me to not get a job because I don’t need too but I wanted to learn how to support myself and establish worth ethic early on. I also want to save up money before I go off to college. I work at a job that pays $11 (minimum wage in my state). I’m heavily involved in theatre and am currently in a musical at my high school. To preface this my manager usually posts a rough draft schedule and then final draft schedule for each month, but he asks for availability very early on (for example for December availability he’d ask first week of November). When he asked for my February hours, I wasn’t sure of my rehearsal schedule yet so I said I would get back to him. He posted the rough…

Seems like a living wage would be different for everyone. Based on where you live, etc. A living wage to some might be a safe comfortable roof over their head, ability to provide food for their family and to be able to pay utilities as well as the cost of everyday life. Or it could mean getting a $6.00 Starbucks coffee everyday and buying the new iPhone every time they come out with a new one. What is a living wage to you? Can people give legitimate honest answers or opinions without getting nasty and mean like so many of the responses we see on here? I see this term on so many posts, but no realistic solutions being discussed.

“[…] The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination. People who suffer from depression, bipolar disorder, or burnout syndrome develop the symptoms displayed by the Muselmänner in concentration camps. Muselmänner are emaciated prisoners lacking all vigor who, like people with acute depression, have become entirely apathetic and can no longer even recognize physical cold or the orders given by guards. One cannot help…

He likes to force people to sit in a meeting and listen to his latest accomplishments. If you just pay atrention and listen but do not ask him to explain more about a specific part of his speech afterwards, you are seem as not being a team player

I know a lot of people are critical of people that have huge pay/wealth. But it’s the system we have. Would you guys want a cap on personal income , assets?

We had a big project that needed to be shipped out on Friday, which was about impossible, and my boss was upset that we only did 8 hours on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he “asked” if everyone can do overtime and I told him that I couldn't due to”prior commitments,” and he swapped me with another worker who had never done my job before simply because he needed somebody “committed to overtime.” It sucks for my coworkers because they will be under pressure and impossible deadline, but I've had the biggest smile on my face knowing I got to him. I took Friday off because of the weather so I don't know how it went but I am looking for new jobs just in case.

I recently just moved here in the US from a country where labor laws are fairly imposed. Even before moving here, I already have an idea of how companies/corporates treat their workers. I just got a job in a well-known mall. I love the nature of my job. But the managers… gosh! No wonder why staff are often miserable…managers are, for the lack of better term, egotistic. No care for their staff at all! They don’t even address staff by name. Worst, there is never a feeling of certainty and security. I know I am new, but ever since I started, I always wonder if the next day I go to work they’d just tell me I’ve been fired. Yesterday, I was doing a job of 2 people (only employed for 2 weeks) and even extending for 2 hours, I still left a bit of job undone. So this is…