Antiwork

And realise it is totally the wrong perception but there’s nothing you can do to change it Did something four months ago at work and is seen as ‘union’. Quite happy to be sticking up for me and my fellow workers but apparently that’s all I am for my boss, not related to my every day job, totally not what I’ve done before or since but that’s what I am reduced to in his mind and there’s nothing that’ll change it

So I’ve been seeing posts from this sub over time and just wanted ask a question as I’m in a weird position. I’ve worked for this company (a part distributor warehouse) for 4 years now. I’m currently an Associate 2, and often times told I’m the best worker in the building. To an extent that I was told to apply for the now open Lead position(skipping the senior position). The problem now is one of the Supervisors, when I asked of pay, said they didn’t know but I could probably expect 2 dollars if I was excepted. We’ve just got a new manager that says the Team Lead is the first management position and won’t be treated like a regular employee. Which I get. I’ll be held responsible for every problem. But if my supervisors right it doesn’t feel like I’m going to be compensated properly. I told him that…

You want me to card every dude that wants a beer or a pack of cigarettes? Nah, we got dudes coming in everyday that look like they about to kill someone. I'm getting some little $9 an hour, I ain't got time to put up with some bull-nish over a 40oz or a swisher. And i ain't about to write down every effing license plate that wants to pump some gas without prepay. If ya'll be thinking imma graduate every mofo that come up in here, lol, you got me bent! I go work for Jerry pouring some concrete for $18 an hour before all of dat!

As title says. I've been at this place for 6 months now. Ive been running my ass off. I make $13/hour doing tires and oil. I've improved a lot. They also wanted me to organize an entire tire storage/warehouse for NO RAISE. They actually thought it's okay to just slap that responsibility on a single person with no compensation. Tires are damn heavy, by the way. A single tire for the average sedan is about 20-30 pounds, not including the rim or anything. SUV tires are probably somewhere around 50. Truck tires are for sure 70-80. After a week of doing that shit alone my back was so fucked up that I could barely walk without pain shooting up my spine. We have A LOT of tires. While I was sweating my ass off, destroying my back, people who're paid higher than me are just outside chilling when we have…

Create a Google Voice number for the job application and the interview process, and once hired, shut it off. Give them a fake number for your fake emergency contact. Once hired: “I don’t own a phone” Don’t work for any company that insists otherwise. If they give you a company phone, turn it on at 9am and off at 5pm.

‘Our job is to taste free air. Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall, but, my friends, the hour is yours.’ Isn’t that fucking beautiful? Your boss might own the building, they might own the equipment you use, they might even own the clock that you watch run down that reminds you how trapped you feel. But as long as you are in control of your body and actions (which, admittedly, the people in the show aren’t as the central conflict), that time is yours. It reminds me a lot of the message of the UK version of The Office, another incredibly poignant show with an antiwork message. You’re just thrown together with whoever you work with against your will, you might have nothing in common, but sometimes you can create a lasting memory with someone in those confines that lasts beyond the bottom…