Antiwork

I propose we bring back Undercover Boss. Except… The bosses must work at the absolute lowest paying job their company has to offer and accept that pay for 3 weeks, benefits included. They must try to go to the doctor with that insurance at least once. The Boss must use public transportation every day to and from the site of work. The show should be able to air the employees talking straight shit about management without fear of repercussion afterwards, in writing. The Boss must try to find housing in the area they work within their budget (Spoiler alert: They won't) Hidden cameras rather than a camera crew. What else? Just got on a Hulu binge and realized this show could come back and be a hit, but that would require people at corporate to face reality and that'll never happen.

I'm owner of a tech business and I've been (mostly) lurking Antiwork for a few months. I wanted to take advantage of my cake day to reflect on a few things I've learned from you during this time. I've always held economic views that could be considered somewhat socialist, and I think my experience here has reinforced that. – The anti-work fight should be left/right wing agnostic. A society where people are seen as the means to generate plus value out of their time is a society deemed for failure. We're already seeing societal decay across Western nations in the form of lower morale, loss of purpose, and loss of quality of life. Squeezing workers only benefits a select few with the intention of short to medium term gains. Those are value extractors and they're parasites of society. – As a society, we need to reinforce the idea that we're…

What’s up with all these jobs like ohoiii ohooiii yaaaa bro you’ll work 6 days 12 hour shifts with mandatory over time for $14.70 an hour? Go fuck yourself you pieces of human garbage

No family that had time for me because Dad was busy making money for someone else. Mom was mentally debilitated and on welfare and too burned out to care for her own kids. I grew up in an abusive household and escaping meant starving because no matter what I do I can’t make ends meet. I’ve picked starvation because it was literally that bad. My morals are too important to me to be a part of the problem…so I don’t have any motivation to keep feeding the machine. I wish I could just find an island somewhere with no people on it and just go about life without any of this bullshit. I’ve been hurt too many times and engaging in a job or anything else related to capitalism causes me more pain than I can take. I’m so done with the rat race … but there IS NO ALTERNATIVE!…

4:00 here and scrolling away on my phone at the office, opened LinkedIn out of boredom. Recommended remote job with Door Dash. Read through it and think huh, might be worth applying to this. Get to the comp section due to CO wage disclosure, and the base comp is literally twice as much as I’m making, and the upper range is 3x. Had the job not disclosed, I’d probably ask for a modest 15-30% bump. Crazy what state regulation can do for us. Information is power