Antiwork

If you don't have a job solving social problems, you probably have a job creating them.

Remote Job I put in 2 weeks today and was happy to finally do it as I have been wanting to quit for a while now. When I told the manager they said you can always email for referencing whenever you needed. I said thanks. Then manager called back to ask me to stay till the end of the month because people are on vacay and they'll be short staffed. What should I do? I really just wanna leave in peace and not be put in an awkward position I didn't tell them reason I'm leaving or if I have or don't have anything lined up. Why ask someone to stay so you can further use them when they clearly wants to just leave?!

I just realized employers are basically practicing the same mentality as Comcast’s customer retainment culture. There’s been a mass exodus to “unplug” from cable tv (which has already occurred) because they treat new customers better than old customers: sure we’ll give you X, Y, Z to join plus incentives and deals. Fuck the existing customers, we’ll double their price next month. New employee: I got a signing bonus of ##K!! (Plus likely higher wages… but we can’t talk about that) Existing Employee: I got a $100 gift card last year at Christmas time… Pretty obvious why there’s a mass exodus of employment….

A bit of background, grew up in a red-ass small town. My first job was at McDick's when I was 15. Broke my collar bone biking to work, you could visibly see bone protrude through the skin when I would rotate my arm. My manager at the time said, “You can't take aisprin and clock-in?”. For a while I had nothing but abusive jobs. So, naturally all of the /r/antiwork rhetoric I subscribe to and you have my full support. I've always been very good at setting my foot down and telling garbage employers to pound sound. I've had a lot of jobs because of it. Mostly blue collar. ​ Fast-forward to now, 'bout to graduate with my engineering degree. 8 years of sleep deprivation, malnourishment, fight or flight, and paying tuition out of pocket. Started an internship at a company a year ago. I am hourly, I am remote.…

Gonna vent here… So short story, been stuck at this job for some time. Horrible company but I need to buy time while I’m out interviewing. Till then it’s my responsibility to do my job, but everyone is giving me their job because they are super lazy. I told them I was being overwhelmed so to “buy” me some more time they took away my lunch hour so I could focus more on their job. When I got burnt out and decided to look at my phone for 5 mins, since I have no breaks, they yelled at me and told me how overwhelming their job is and how this is a never ending job. In addition, I was told I need to be “perfect” which means zero mistakes at what I do. Yet, the moment I improve in a task they add more to my workload stating that I…

Just closed out of a job application because it made me take a personality test (I didn't know there would be one when I started) and it was over 100 Strongly Agree + Disagree questions long. There was no timer and no indicator that said when the questions would end so they just kept going and going. 140 prompts in and I had enough so I just closed out entirely. They were in multiples of ten so I didn't really notice at first but WHAT IN THE WORLD?? Has this happened to anyone else or do I just have the worst luck? Why do companies think they deserve this much time for free?

This is mostly a lament, but one that has implications for the anti-work movement. There are ample attorneys out there who represent corporations in a multitude of lawsuit types. But as workers trying to get what little rights we have respected, it is an absolute struggle to find attorneys that want to take on our side of the fight. There's far less money in it, so it's rarely chosen. It's frustrating and depressing, and I'm sure the pro-labor attorneys out there feel the same from their end. The prospect of representing ourselves seems as foolish as it is daunting. But I wish it wasn't so. I've got some violated rights that need defending, and I'm sure you do too.