Antiwork

That's it, tomorrow I have to get back to work and I hate that fucking place so much, that I'm seriously considering finding a way to “take a sick leave”, rather than going back to that fucking factory. That shithole will eventually get me a cancer for the shit I breath in anyway, or a depression for how much doing something that I hate for the majority of time, makes my life miserable. What makes me even more furious is that despite having a part-time contract, my employer is forcing me to work full-time bacause of “staff shortage” when there's fucking 2500 ppl working in there (half of them with a fake part-time contract too). Oh I'd also like to mention that i get to work more shifts and get less rest days during summer, because the workload is higher during the season that the rest of the fucking country…

The relative comfort that boomers (and to some extent Gen X) received, sounds, at least to me, really fucking boring. You go to college, graduate with a degree with minimal debt. Get a good paying desk job, and save up money. Find someone and get married, and use those savings to buy a house in the suburbs. Have children and then keep working until you are 65. Then retire to a sunny place like Florida, California, or Hawaii. Obviously that sounds like heaven compared to our situation. But doesn’t it sound really dull? I mean working 40hrs a week, just to come home to a boring house with a spouse who’s just as exhausted as you are, and then repeat for 40 fucking years. To me, that doesn’t sound ideal. I don’t want to work 40hrs a week at some soul crushing cubicle every week just to retire at 65…

I don't understand why retail jobs change your shifts so frequently. When I worked at [big name fast fashion store] my shifts were so erratic and changed so often it made it really difficult to plan anything outside of work. I would have enjoyed the role a lot more if I just had the same working hours every time, even if they were 6:30am stock shifts. It made it hell to get another job since it was almost impossible to book interviews. Is this intentional? To make it harder for you to leave?

This one is pretty easy. Since it now takes two incomes for families with kids to survive, and it still doesn't afford you what one income would. It directly effects the mental health of so many kids growing up without their own parents raising them because they're working so much. The kids also don't develop the same amount of relationships with other kids from a young age the way most kids used to with the mother widely being home and able to take the kid to play dates and such. This started somewhere around the latch key kid era in the late 70's, early 80's. Yes we had school shootings in the 80's, and both more children being home alone, and the school shootings have gotten worse since. The labor conditions this country is enduring have not only effected children negatively from a financial standpoint, hunger standpoint, the embarrassments and…

Soo I’m 22 and I just recently started a new job at a Nordstrom factory, it’s the easiest work ever but long 12 hr shifts. I decided to not go in yesterday and today. I’m quitting. I feel so shitty and useless for doing so. I don’t know what to do with my life. I can’t keep a job. My mind hates the idea of being forced to go work somewhere that I don’t like. I’m starting to feel like I would much rather end up dead or in jail then to have a normal job. My parents are gonna be pissed and disappointed when they wake up and I’m still at home 🤦‍️ Fuck that job