Antiwork

I can not relate to you in your 4 house problem when I am struggling to survive, ok?

Sat in the office today listening to the HR manager and other senior managers moan about how x or y company keep recruiting our staff members – like they've been headhunted, rather than gone somewhere that they are fairly compensated for their time. Here's a thought – actually pay people what they are worth so that they don't want to leave, then if they actually DO get poached your competition has to pay the premium… Why is that hard to understand?

I was looking through my bookshelf and found the self help, get rich book she gave us and just remembered this. My first Christmas working at this backbreaking, partially dangerous, physically demanding job, she gave us $1 scratch off tickets instead of a Christmas bonus. Annoying but what can you do? My second Christmas working there, she gave us all a choice to choose between three different self help, get rich books. I don't remember what the other books were, but they were $20 a pop. There were ten of each self help book, so thirty books in total. She spent about $600 on shitty self help books instead of using that money to help us out on the holidays and give us a little Christmas bonus. The book I got was “The Latte Factory” Fun.

Oh boy, where do I even start? The American system, where many people rely on their employer for health insurance, and this is a huge problem. “Why?”, you may ask. This system creates multiple problems for employees, such as not being able to quit their job due to the fear of being uninsured. However, the even bigger problem for me, personally, is that currently many people's health insurance is controlled by a company, that aims to keep them at work as much as possible. This means that it's directly in the employer's interests to give their employees bad insurance plans, to prevent them from going to the doctor, and then demand a doctor's note for paid sick leave. Talking about sick leave, it's absolutely outrageous that the amount of sick days/year can be predetermined. This coupled with the fact that in some states you can literally fire the employee for…

I worked at a city center during college. I did security, which was what the city called night janitors so they didn’t have to call them janitors. I also worked in the day time hours when I could, filling requests of the supervisor and also being a janitor. There were some issues which I don’t even remember now but like the day staff and night staff were not fulfilling tasks and set ups properly and I was doing the same work on my day shifts as my night shifts, when whoever was clocked in was supposed to be doing half the shit when I wasn’t there. I didn’t think it was malicious at all, as I remember. More like- these folks don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing and nobody told them. I typed up a “memo” and left it in everybody’s mailboxes. It was like 4-5 sentences- “please…