Antiwork

I’ve been with this company for so long, it got to the point I was convinced it was the best I could do. It’s been getting worse and worse. Management falling apart. Everyone playing the blame game. I asked for a modest raise (no improvement in 10 YEARS). I was told: “Marq, you’re very important, we love your work, but we just don’t have the money for that right now. Give us some time and I’m sure we can do something. “ Months came and went, no news no raise, so I started looking around for something else. I’ve always been so scared to leave. What if I can’t do better? What if none of my skills translate? What if I quit but then have to move or uproot my whole life to make ends meet? Those fears kept me in place for waaaay too long. Finally I had enough,…

Someone suggested I post this here, so I’m sharing with the antiwork community. I just wanted to share a bit of my experience and the reasons I quit with anyone who is considering working for Crumbl, so you aren't blind-sided like me. For context: I am a mid-20s nb student who is finishing their degree within the month. On the job experience was advertised as $14-16/hour, told at my orientation that it would be ~$10/hour with tips to “make it up” GM did not have an email, and I was not informed of a way to contact HR or payroll (should have asked, but still) shift lead had no idea I was hired on, had to call GM to confirm shift lead informed me of my pay, not GM after three shifts, was left to open the store with one other person, who also only had 3 shifts under their…

So I work as a cashier at a grocery store and now also a bagger because the baggers seem to be always mia. But besides work treating me like crap, i've come to hate my job just after 11 months in I just feel like it's not rewarding. I basically do two jobs at once, clean my lane, help bag the other lanes when i'm dead, etc, and all my hard work goes unrecognized. All this for minimum wage. Sure I might get the managers' constant “thank you, you worked hard” etc at the end of my shift but it's nothing but noise And all i'm doing is ringing people's groceries and bagging. There's no excitement. Doesn't feel rewarding. I don't feel accomplished. I do my job, go home and eat, relax for a few, and go to bed. Then wake up and dread about me going to work. repeat…

I started working at a gas station a year ago, close to home, easy work. When I hired on, I had a dude manager, (K) I liked K, he was cool, quiet, no bs kinda guy. He didn't care as long as you showed up. K had a sick child though, and had to switch locations for better medical care. Understandable. Before K left all kinds of other coworkers had come and gone, until I was longest surviving employee there, seniority as it were. For some reason, I was looked over when the spot for Manager came in when K left, that fine, whatever. But now enters C, my new boss. C comes in and at first she is hired on as a cashier just like me, and doesn't actually want to be manager. over time, she does become manager. But as I said coworkers were coming and going. By…

My job never was fully staffed from the start. Now they’re severely understaffed and lately even more people are quitting. Like they own 4 houses and there’s only 6 workers combined total for the 4 houses, 2 work part time. Management’s way to fix the issue is to give current workers more hours and ignoring my coworker’s complaints Would it be shitty to just leave the job and make them suffer more?

Like truly bullshit. The purpose of most people's jobs are just to make people rich. The food industry isn't trying to solve world hunger, they are profiting off hunger. The car industry isn't trying to provide freedom of movement, they are profiting off people's need to travel long distances. Most jobs exist to increase profits, and not to help anyone. People build homes to make money, not to actually provide housing. If they could build something more profitable instead, then they would. Advertising is just designed to have people buy more stuff than they need. Businesses don't exist to employ the community and provide a means for people to live and prosper, they exist to exploit labor. It just feels like most jobs have no meaning at all. Most of us wouldn't have jobs if our labor didn't make someone else money. And that's the problem, money shouldn't be the…