Category: Antiwork

i’m a 17 year old high school student that had been working at a tutoring centre for the past few months. this is a minimum wage job i only got for some extra cash and my main priority is school. im thinking of leaving because i really hate my boss. she gets mad at me when i ask questions which has led to lots of problems. we have a colour coded system that indicates what homework we’re supposed to mark but it’s really confusing. i still don’t understand it and i’m only getting by because i follow the colours my coworkers mark. i’m too scared to ask her to explain the system because she has yelled at me about it before. she said that i should learn how to read (i learned how to read from her centre). i can’t ask my coworkers because 3 of them don’t how it…

I got a 10¢ raise at work out of the blue, and said to my office mate “oh I think I got a tiny raise”. My supervisor just got mad at me for “discussing wages”. I know my labor laws. Plus I didn’t even say a number amount. Major red flag. Edit: they’re probably gonna take it away and say it was a “mistake”, totally not as a punishment for discussing wages /s

About time. The link

My wife and I are in our mid-30s and have been together about 5 years now. We knew pretty soon after moving in together that we wanted to get married and have kids. But there was a problem: As career-focused aspiring middle class Americans we wanted to wait till everything was perfect and we were financially stable. We spent our 20s in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis focusing on our careers and living it up in a major city, not thinking of settling down. When we finally began dating we were already in our early 30s. We moved in together a couple years later and knew we wanted to get married. But we put it off because we wanted to make sure we were even more financial stable. For me this meant taking classes to learn new skills and making a career change, a VERY taxing process. It…

The modern world can be a horribly alienating place, it's true. But that alienation stems from the fact that we aren't reliant on each other anymore, because we live in a culture of affluent individualism, even if that looks to be drawing to a close. Sure we rely on each other to carry out our separate tasks in an organised economy, but we don't need each other in the way we always have as a species. We can survive without any relationships, is what I'm getting at. Why spend your life complaining like a little baby? Can't you see that there is freedom inherent to our way of living, despite its fundamental lack of soul? You can literally do whatever you want, within reason. It would be great to live a more meaningful existence and also have the freedom to do whatever we want, but meaning is always forged out…

Not sure if this belong a here but in 2022 I was fired twice. Each time they said it wasn’t job performance and didn’t give a reason. I work hard, meet deadlines, complete my tasks and do my best to get a long with people. Now where I’m currently at my direct deposit didn’t hit my account…can’t help but think I’m going in today to face the music again. I hate how companies will just fire you for no reason (or won’t give you one) and get away with it. Maybe time to start doing something different?