Antiwork

I have been working for a hospital for years. I worked in an accounting assistant role. Part of my job included processing payroll. While I was working, I was studying for my degree (which I got in December last year with honors). This whole time the hospital leaders kept telling me to get the degree to get promoted. Okay, done. Months later and no promotion. I've earned awards for my work ethic. I've made what I thought were friends here. I didn't want to leave. But I'm earning way less than I know my degree earns and do a lot of work for it. My desk is overworked and in April when I got the opportunity to work from home for another company, I took it. It was for more money and less work. I thought I was making a mistake leaving the people I loved. Today, as I'm training…

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