Antiwork

We recently got a pretty substantial raise at work. It was about $4 an hour for me. I guess I should just be grateful but one thing bothers me about it. We will now be getting a raise every 2 years on even years. 2 years, 4 years, etc… But I was 1 month shy of hitting one of those 2 year levels when they implemented this. So even though I now have 10 years in I have to wait until I have almost 12 years in to get my 10 year raise. I think as soon as you hit one of those levels they should give you the raise.

Every few months our store does a new fundraiser, and we have to ask customers at the end of each transaction to donate to whatever charity we’re doing at that time. I hate doing it, because I feel like our multimillion dollar retail company should just donate the money itself anyway, but that’s beside the point. Tonight our store manager told us that tomorrow we’re starting a new one for ‘Autism Speaks.’ I know ‘Autism Speaks’ is a shitty organization that isn’t actually using the money they collect to help people with autism. They aren’t even classified as a charity and they have a horrible history of where there funding goes. What should I do instead when my bosses tell me to ask customers to donate to the “charity?”

I think that there is this notion that if you live off something like a basic income or state support that you are somehow not “pulling your weight”. But I think this assumes that all jobs “pull weight” or are helpful. In fact most jobs are totally useless (bureaocratic BS jobs) or outright harmful (gambling, selling alcohol, selling many BS medications, military, selling ads – like facebook and google, etc). At the very least having a “job” propagates the psychological helplessness of your class, especially if you are being abused by some asshole manager, which is often the case across all industries. Convincing someone to pay you, or being part of someone else's abusive structure is not “pulling your weight”. In fact fighting this propaganda by not working does more good than taking a job. It moves the needle just that little bit. You are one small statistic, one person…