Antiwork

I don’t want to make the title too long but basically i’ve decided to quit my second job, my first job is willing to work with me for more hours and stuff and is a much more consistent schedule that I genuinely enjoy. I go to school full time and with working both jobs i was basically working full time on top of school and it really affected my mental and physical health. the only thing is my store manager gives me a ton of anxiety and so I don’t want to go in to quit. Should I just shoot her a text lying and saying I won’t be able to come into work anymore because of a family emergency that I am unsure of when it will be resolved and to accept this message as my formal resignation effective immediately? Or should I just suck it up and go…

I am not much of a poster, but I decided I might as well start strong. I am looking for some advice with an idea, but I want to share a little story first. I will have a TLDR; at the bottom. Like many, I have struggled to find a job in tech, specifically as a PM. Before the pandemic, I handled dozens of projects because I wanted to expose myself through experience and hope that would replace my *lack of experience*. My projects ran within resource constraints and timelines, and my stakeholders were always happy, but I didn’t have formal PM experience. I applied and applied to my megacorp of an employer and finally got a phone screen, to which I was told oh, those projects don’t count since it is not your primary responsibility. I go to my manager and ask what I am missing, and sure enough,…

Sup antiwork! So. While the conditions and circumstances that have brought this change about were TERRIBLE. I now do not have to work at all. For years if I want to. My Wife has begun her dream career as a teacher and makes enough to support us and have tons -relative to what my lifelong poverty stricken ass is used to- extra every month. Now. She is chasing her dream and making bank and I no longer have to be cog in the capitalism machine. I can now be the Dad, activist, gamer, and hobbyist I've always wanted to be. I'm just happy to the point of tears and I wanted to share this with y'all. What can I do as someone who doesn't work to forward this cause?

TL;DR: supervisor ruined workplace by firing the only manager that treated workers like humans and when the workers rose up he got mad. Skip until after the line if you want the point. Everything else is background context. You’d think this wouldn’t belong on this sub, but trust me, it does. Imagine having a manager that treats you like an equal, will talk with you eye to eye, and if you disagree, a calm and professional conversation will be had. Not only that, even the smallest of concerns she would put on her list of things to do. Context: I am 18 and work in a college dining hall. Yeah, it’s not that much. But it’s pathetic enough that I’m seen as a child. The superiors just see me as a name on a paper. Don’t take me seriously. I’m just a rebel alcoholic college kid working just for money…

sick of being human, in this realm where basic human necessities that the earth provides is regulated and sold, where there’s a system in place that promotes greed and inequalities.. it’s like we are being billed every day just for existing & I’m supposed to just deal with it and just get in where I fit in. This is not living imo all jobs suck or don’t pay decent, ill rather not exist any longer than deal with this hellhole I don’t understand how humans have evolved into this and call this “it’s just life”.. I’m considering both choices I’m fed up so maybe the more permanent solution of checking out.. I mean how do y’all come to terms of this reality or deal with this bs?