Antiwork

Knowing that work is rigged, how do you get motivation to work? Apparently most people have a reaction of “I need to make money, so I'm going to work more”. But to me it feels more like “I need to make money, so I'm not going to”. Because the 'need' is SO I work more. If I worked more, that would be just doing what they want. How do you push past that and find work anyway? I'm finding it really difficult to react to money in the normal way, like get motivated instead of just completely put off by the whole thing. Is there anyone who relates to this and found a way around it so they could find a job?

I’m hourly so supposed to log all hours worked. However, my job is task based and sometimes I’m still not done at the end of a 12-14 hour shift. Last night I was still not finished at 9pm. We can technically only work the hours of 7am-9pm. But I’ve been taking a nap and working again at midnight for a few hours or so off the clock. There is no time stamps unless I send an email. But I’m wondering “how” illegal this is. Like just potential to lose my current job or like a criminal conviction where it could impact future jobs?

…I come here, 17 years old. Seeing that America has gone to absolute SHIT and IS NOT BACK. I want to give you all something The EU has the right idea when it comes to sick leave and such. America doesn't force this EU idea. Even this is illegal, and no one can do a damn thing about it. Do ya want to know something? From an Outsiders point of view, this is HIGHLY unethical, but if you're part of the Higher ups, like supervisors, and managers? To them, it's Ethical. I swear to FUCK someone has to set america straight at this point! Im pissed, the Entire r/antiwork subreddit is pissed, yet we do JACK. SHIT about it. Im not calling for violence. We need to find a damn way to fix this. Soon, or it will become Irrepairable.

At will employment Everyone seems to know you can quit any time you want, two weeks notice or two minute notice. However when it comes to getting fired some say you can be fired for no reason then lots try and bring up you can’t get fired if you’re in a “protected class”. So what’s the deal? Can you be fired for no reason or not? If the employer has an illegal reason, can’t they just not give a reason so it’s legal? Then as an employee, you can’t do anything about it since it goes both ways? Since you could have quit whenever. It’s not like an employer is going to say “you’re fired because you’re X color” when they can just not give a reason instead. Say Samantha is X color, the only female doing a job males do, pregnant etc with a doctors restriction note for weight….say…

I used to work as an automation engineer (basically a programmer for factory machines). Some of the software we wrote had to be password protected. Clients wanting to be able to choose who gets acces and whatnot. Sometimes however we'd get software from a client where they provide the password so that we can update the software. When my job was done I'd just put in the same password so the protection didn't change. This particular client was one I knew well, having done multiple projects for them so I had a list of their common passwords. When I quit (multiple reasons, won't go into it here) I heard that the chief engineer on the client side did as well. Didn't think anything off it at the time untill 5 months later. My former boss contacted me through asking for a password for one of their machines. That list I…

I quit my toxic job working for an abusive narcissist last year in June. Next Friday will be the 1 year anniversary of my quitting. That job was hellaciously stressful and I had a multitude of symptoms from it, like my hair falling out, insomnia, constant anger, depression, etc. I lived on melatonin for sleep and energy drinks to stay awake during the day. As I said it’s been a year since I quit. I have a new job in insurance that I really enjoy. The only stress in my life now is trying to make this tiny paycheck stretch. But I was cleaning my room yesterday and realized the bottle of melatonin on my nightstand had expired. And it was still half full. I haven’t had to use them in so long half of the gummies expired! What a victory. Plus my hair has grown back, you can’t see…

I won’t be applying.

More than year ago I quit my job at a company that was not giving a damn about it’s employees or customers. It took me a while to do so, as I kept thinking „maybe I am just too sensitive, maybe things will get better, maybe Blabla“. Fast forward to today, my former colleagues are still miserable, face even worse treatment and are surprised on a daily with more stupid decisions from management. So I don‘t know who needs to hear this, but if you have a bad feeling, do not waste your time or energy for a bad company. Find something else, take a break, do your own thing or do whatever works best for you.