Antiwork

I’m so tired emotionally and physically and my job isn’t that physically demanding. What do we do? I make 17/h “plus tips” and my rent is now over 2000 in an area where there’s active gang violence. gas sucks so I bought a bike. groceries cost a lot so i try to eat at work as much as I can even though I hate it cuz free food you know? What do we do ? How do we change things? A mass strike ? Do we vote ? Does that do anything if our politicians are not on the side of the people ? At this point it’s starting to look like death is the only escape from this constant cycle have you had enough of this also?

Some background, I work for a mining company in Australia, I signed on to become a carpenter with them for a minimum of six years once I'm qualified, in exchange they pay me a decent wage (far better than a regular apprentice), but to become fully qualified there isn't a chance to do most of the tasks I require to get my accreditation on the mine sites, so myself as well as the 11 others on my intake were sent to Sydney to work for qualified builders to gain the required experience. Overall the builder I'm apprenticing for isn't too bad, but the other day we were discussing the commute, my trip is 38km (about 24 miles) each way. If you've ever driven in Sydney you know the roads are set up to try to force people to take toll roads, but the tolls are exorbitantly expensive, it would cost…

I started my first day at a home improvement retail store last night, since the starting pay was close to 17 an hour, I thought it’d be a good gig to be a cashier while in school. When I arrived to work nobody was being friendly like they pretended to be on orientation. They immediately made me do backbreaking work completely on my job description did not entail whatsoever. I was yelled at twice by an older, bitchy, female manager telling me, “You’re not working hard enough. Everything has to get done before we close tonight!” I just shrugged it off and kept doing my best. They just threw me in the fire with zero training or anyone to help, which was absolutely ridiculous. An assistant manager told me I was “too young and inexperienced to be working here.” As a college student who has worked in retail before, In…