Antiwork

So…I (24F) spent the last 6+ years working for a company who I went above and beyond for for the entirety of my employment. I worked 10-12 hour days, 6-7 days a week; working early mornings, late nights, and weekends in order to create/improve processes that made/saved the company time and money. My roles ranged from customer service, to management (team and operational), to global sales, to program development and coordination. I literally worked myself sick for them, just them to fire me (and about 20 other people) last Friday for the sole reason of “cutting costs”. It was unexpected and we were given no prior warning. I had 117 hours of accrued PTO (because I rarely took time off) that was paid out to me and I received a decent severance pay since I was let go through no fault of my own. I also qualify for unemployment insurance…

I rather be poor and happy than to work to make rich people richer!

Let me set the scene, we had an email a few weeks ago, saying that if we now test positive for covid, you have to come into work as normal. There will be NO working from home. If you do decide to not come in because you are too unwell. You will only get SSP. (£90 a week) or you can use your limited yearly holiday entitlement. I came into work on Tuesday after informing my boss that i had Covid on Monday night.. I brought in my own laptop and was put in an isolated room for the week to keep the other office staff “safe”. I felt like death but could not afford to have a week on SSP only. The work i was given was something i could do at home but the boss said “you are here to set a precedence for everyone else as we…

So the store I worked at closed at 10pm. A customer came in one night and complained that we closed before they could finish their shopping. My employer’s response was to add 15mins to the end of EVERYONE’s (who was an adult) shifts, except if you worked until 8pm. Then you would have an extra half hour added, so you left at 8:30. I thought this was incredibly stupid and it messed up our break and lunch schedule terribly, and the 15mins was mandatory. They said they could see it with our clock ins and outs and that this extra time was going to be reflected in our payroll. The break and lunch system was this: for adults, one 15min break after 4hrs worked. If more than 6hrs have been worked, they get a 30min lunch. If 8hrs are worked, you get two 15min breaks and 30min lunch, but the…

So last Tuesday I got fired. Original post can be seen here here: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/tutkj2/so_i_got_fired_yesterday/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share So after much deliberation I have decided not to go back to work. Perhaps I was in a better situation than most, because I had some money left and my savings. I also have access to the land I am about to mention. So I found a used RV on Craigslist for 5,000. I had moved out to the country (30 minutes to closest grocery store kind of country) for this job, which fired me. I have been worried sick about what to do as far as housing and future employment. I suppose I am also lucky as I am single and don't have any children. So I decided to pick up this RV Monday. I plan on doing odd jobs as needed (mostly farm labor, manual labor for family friends.) I'm going to start a…