Antiwork

I am working at a production company so we use our hands a lot. I got an injury because I had to prove myself I was able to work there. I didn't say anything until like a week ago and told them I couldn't operate some of the machines anymore. At least for a couple of weeks. They were all fine with it. One of my floormanagers just came with a very angry look on his face basically pressuring me with his words and asking things like “how come you haven't done much work?” Etc. I told him that it was because of my shoulder and that I did work very hard (I was basically running around the workplace to get everything done. Still pressuring my injured shoulder.) So I couldn't even tell him that, because I was just dumbfounded at his behaviour and him rolling his eyes when I…

I have some simple, but effective logic for this. People use India, China and Japan as examples of countries where people work way harder than in America. Yet, America is more prosperous, and although we overwork, we overwork less than those places. Thus, we can justify the fact that overworking to the degree that Indians, Chinese people and Japanese people overwork, it's clearly unnecessary to work that hard to achieve American prosperity (which, in part, comes from our culture of individuality allowing for the individual expression enough to be creative). When other Asian countries are no longer overworking, there will be no argument about how they're working harder. People in Asian countries work long hours, but there's more coercion, both culturally and literally, and the work is far less efficient than someone in the USA following their dreams and starting a business. Creativity and following one's nature is far more…

They test me every morning. The production manager has been asking how my son is and giving me a thumbs up for testing negative… while walking in five minutes late every day (6am). If any other hourly worker shows up late every they would be fired. Every day I watch the office staff (who come in at 8) come in with the same people showing up 5-10 minutes after they are expected to be in. But they are salary so it's ok I guess.