Antiwork

not a post about abortion, but just that so many people are praising amazon when clearly this is a ploy to a) keep workers from taking maternity leave and b) save money on medical care/benefits i just honestly dont trust that amazon has womens rights at heart – when have they ever? i feel like we should take their “support” with a grain of salt…

I was in line with a buddy and we were both at odds over whether we wanted to use the self checkout or not. On the one hand the more they are used, the more some bean counter at corporate will use to justify layoffs down the road and cut down on human staff. On the other hand the poor people scanning and bagging look exhausted and might be happy that customers are using them and cutting down on the workload. I am interested to hear the arguments from the antiwork perspective.

I've been working full time at a restaurant and I recently requested Sundays off for reasons I don't feel comfortable disclosing to my manager. They told me full weekend availability was a condition for all new hires (even though we hadn't discussed it in my interview, just that I can expect to work anywhere from 25-40 hours a week.) but they would do their best to accommodate me. But this isn't a time off request, it's a change in my availability. Is there anything I can do to protect myself in the event that I'm scheduled and can't show up?

I’m remote and HR is a fucking nightmare. She overly involves herself into everything. If I ask for a raise or career growth opportunity it has to go through my manager first and then they have to ask her for approval(when I interviewed with her, the exact words out of her mouth were “I’ll be honest I have no idea what your role is or what you’d do” so you can see why it’s been frustrating having someone who no insight to my role have a say in my future) If I need technology for work, it goes through her and not IT (this one’s difficult because she’s tech illiterate and thinks every request is unnecessary). And she never fucking approves anything. I joined the job last year and asked for a keyboard and mouse and was told if I wanted that, then I needed to buy it myself…. Mind…

I'm 23 and all the childhood abuse and mental problems my parents told me to shove down and ignore have finally ruined my life to the point I can't stand to be outside or around strangers anymore. I quit my last job what seems like forever ago and have lost 55lbs because when I asked disability how many hours I was allowed to work they told me I shouldn't because it would look bad on my application. I got rejected and filed for an appeal April 10th and still haven't heard back. If I get another job I know I'm gonna burst into tears or explode like always I can't take it anymore I just want therapy and medicine that will help me feel like a normal person for probably the first time in my life. How is that too much to ask?

At age 58 I have dealt with more than a street fighter’s share of violently humiliating “higher-ups”. I can count on one hand those employers who did offer and instill mutual respect, yet I haven’t enough fingers and toes to count all the others. I have to wonder if every one of those hateful, snarling, red-faced, power-mongering, ineffective, lying, backstabbing scumbags must have had something really bad done to them in their childhoods. Were they the grade school bullies that got away with their behavior, or were they the ones who were relentlessly bullied? Were they physically, emotionally and/or sexually abused at home? Sigh, I’m kind of just emoting here. Reading the posts from y’all, every day, just makes me so angry on your behalf. I still see and hear those nasty spittle-spewing faces and demeaning, screamed words, years, decades later. Some of those “people”, (for lack of decent pejoratives…

Think about it. Right now, capitalists are limited with who the can hire, unless they do cross-country recruiting and often offer to pay moving expenses. That limits the pool of available workers, creating scarcity and driving the value of that labor up. But companies are not going to be locked to a single area anymore for recruiting. They'll be able to seek workers everywhere. Not just locally. That means a firm in California can hire workers from other states with super low cost of living, paying less than they are now (but more than the local companies can) for the same labor. All that extra? Stolen from the workers, given to the capitalists. And that's before discussing outsourcing these jobs for pennies. It seems good now because it's new, and capitalists are resistant to change. They want their good old profit workhorses to keep producing money forever. But once they…