Antiwork

I’m looking for movies or shows that exemplify the antiwork ethos. Would also be interested in documentaries talking about it as well. What y’all got?

I asked my manager if I could renegotiate my salary due to the competitiveness of the job market. She said yes I’ve gotten great reviews, not even a call out on my record, and said she would submit a request to her higher up. A week went by and I didn’t hear anything so I reached back out and she told me that sometimes it “takes a while” but that they will back pay from the original day she requested it. My intention was to see what they offered and then counter. I was planning to ask for a 13k raise because a) they’re offering new hires 15k sign on bonuses and b) I could easily work for a competitor who is listing their starting salary at 12k more than I make now. But now her wording doesn’t make me believe there’s room for negotiation. I haven’t heard anything for…

Mandatory office day after months of WFH. Loved listening to everyone over the age of 40 complain about how they have so much to get done but no time to do it. Then continue to complain about their dumb kids, spouse and cost of living. Meanwhile I've gotten everything done for the day and I've had to look busy for the last 2 hours of work like to don't have shit I can be doing at home

I would love to work a remote job. But one of my worries about getting a remote job is having one of those jobs that have remote tracking software on your computer. They either scan your keystrokes, mouse movement, or other methods of tracking you. Is there a way to know about if they track you before you log in?

So… a little bit of context. I used to work for a wonderful company as a manager… and I don’t want to give away too much information about the company, so I’ll be kind of vague. For the sake of simplicity, I’ll simply call the company “company A”. Company A provided services to homes by sending technicians out in company vehicles. I was provided with everything I needed to succeed: new equipment, up-to-date phone apps, and an amazing routing website that we used to send our technicians to people’s homes. The owners really listened to what we needed, and responded with compassion. About a week ago, prices in my area climbed to a point where I could no longer support myself or my family at company A. Regrettably, I decided to quit and take another job in the same line of work, but with a different company. I was interviewed…

I am a manager at a large company. (I treat my employees like humans.) My group are consultants that work on projects for our clients. One of my employees, Sam, got a job in another department, but worked out a start date a couple months later for reasons that aren't relevant to the story. We told her project leader, we call him POS, when we found out a little over a month ago. We are now about 4 weeks from when she is supposed to leave and no one has contacted us to backfill her position on the project, so we reach out to the project lead. During the conversation, POS says that the client really wants Sam to stay on the project a month past her current end date. Without talking to Sam, POS went to the VP of her new department asking if Sam can start later. Not…

So this post might not fall under what you guys usually post about, I’ll take down if so, but my boss sent me home from work today to get another doctors note, since the one I brought in originally said that I got discharged at 7am, so I technically could have gone in at 11, when my shift started. I had to go to the hospital on Sunday because I had a really bad nosebleed, to the point where I was starting to lose consciousness. (It got so bad that I couldn’t even use tissue to hold the blood in, because it was such a heavy flow, so I used a bowl to keep the blood from getting everywhere. I started seeing spots at maybe 1/4 of the bowl. Before that, I’d coated my shirt I was wearing that day, and my bath water was pure red after I’d been…

I got a new job recently, round 6 weeks ago, and just this last Saturday quit. Because they didn't pay me. I was working minimum wage, in a hot humid building with no AC, and I was the janitor. I was told I'd get to help customers, I was told I'd get to interact and help people find things they needed. I cleaned toilets for four weeks, because no one else would. And the rest of the time I was killing my back, because I was constantly hunched over picking things up, and organizing them. And when it came time to get payed, I got nothing. The next paycheck comes around, nothing. Not a penny to my name. I talked to my boss, and she said that it was because the company got my information wrong, so the payroll people weren't sending me the checks. Which was bullshit. I talked…

Exactly what the title asks. Looking for inspiration here vs. contextual questions. Keep it simple. What sort of fun things would you spend your time doing? Any stuff you've been putting off that you'd address? What plans would you be making? New habits you'd try to build? What changes would you think about making?