Antiwork

I work in a large corporation and make decent money, but I’m starting to hate my job more and more every day. My boss doesn’t think my work is ever good enough and I’m starting to reach my breaking point. Thing is, I still basically live paycheck to paycheck with my student loans taking up half of my monthly income. I would love to just quit my job and go work in a bar somewhere that is less stressful, but I can’t afford the massive pay decrease. There is no end in sight to this and I don’t know how much more I can take.

It seems just so insanely obvious that pushing more people further into poverty will eventually cut into their bottom line right? Right? I mean, how hard is it to understand that this ‘let’s hoard everything, pay as little as possible to our employees and cut benefits in any way possible’ way of doing things can only end up so many ways; They win. No one has a dime to their names. We work 16/7 just to have a bed and 1200 calories a day. No one can afford any products past those few essentials. The f-ups in charge continue treating the worlds resources like nothing is wrong, climate catastrophe makes planet uninhabitable to humans and 85-90% of all animal life. 2) We revolt. It’s bloody, but the right heads roll. We waste a bunch of time cleaning up from that, climate catastrophe continues, we probably make the world uninhabitable for…

They installed cameras at my restaurant. They told everyone it was because we were having problems with homeless people sleeping on the patio at night. Also, some of our patio chairs and tables have disappeared. However, none of the cameras are installed overlooking seating areas. There are about 12 cameras and they're exclusively aimed at employee activities in places customers aren't allowed. We found this out because a customer grabbed one of the servers (sexual assault). They did kick the guy out. But, of course, we also went to the manager on duty to see if it was on camera in order to have a picture of his identity to ban/prosecute. Nope. The cameras facing the public areas are fake! The cameras that watch employees are real. They don't care what customers do, or if the public steals from us or hurts us. They're to see if we're sitting down,…

If your workplace has decided to go on strike and is doing a mass walkout, stand with your fellow workers. This is a reminder, however, that walking out of work to strike may not be the most effective thing you can do to create change. Striking in place can be much more effective and it will allow you to control the means of production. To strike in place, you still show up to work, but then you work as slowly as possible, or even do no work at all. Do any work processes, repairs, or maintenance to the absolute letter of the instructions, forgetting all efficiency and common sense. If the book says that someone must do a complete clean and sanitizing of an area every 30 minutes and it's not safe to have customers there while it's happening, then do that. If a machine should be thoroughly inspected before…

I’m at a point where most jobs make me miserable and I feel stuck. I’m leaving my current job (in education so next couple months would be off anyways) and every job I look into makes me cringe. I am just tired of dedicating my life to a job just to survive and not actually experience my own life. And the jobs I actually want to do (makeup artist and graphic designer) feel like they take so long to establish on my own they feel ages away. Plus wanting to move out on my own makes it even more difficult because I live in a touristic area so rent is ridiculous here. I just hate having these monetary expectations just for being born a human on earth. My current job isn’t even that hard, I don’t do much all day but I still get so depressed being here I can’t…