Antiwork

My dad always says “life is a marathon, not a sprint” but I just feel stuck on a never ending treadmill. The rat race is bull shit. The grind is bullshit. It’s all bullshit and I’m ready to die. As many others on this sub have said, therapy really is pointless. Your therapist can’t end capitalism. Your therapist can’t help with the fact that you have to earn a living the rest of your life. I am just done.

My husband is currently a cable technician in a major city, with a decent hourly wage, but with the cost of living rising he’s wage is slowly becoming not enough. What other options are out there or what path can he take? We both figured we could post here and get some ideas. Also, he is interested in coding or IT. TIA Delete if not allowed.

I think it’s important to mention my girlfriend has an intersex disorder which is mistaken for her being transgender by her coworkers even after trying to tell them otherwise and she’s obviously treated differently because of it, the way she’s spoken to looked at and how she’s treated is all different to her pairs she feels trapped and scared when around strangers so she finds it extremely comforting to be around me which we try to do as often as we can, we do our work as instructed and meet our quota and are often told we’re working well by our shift supervisor. But we’re reported by numerous people upwards of a dozen people for talking and doing nothing all day. This only happens when we work together, I actually tested something to see what would happen by doing little to no work all day on my ownand doing an…

So I have a relative who when discussing the refugees fleeing and coming into Poland etc, I talked about how tragic this all way and that I was glad that lots of aid was being sent. This relative opined that Ukraine refugees have a very strong work ethic unlike other refugees like from Africa and the middle eastern nations who sit around and “mooch” and that that is why this relative empathizes with Ukrainian refugees more than others. From what I can surmise from this relative's statement is that if you are not focused on immediately finding “hard work/employment” even after fleeing from an active war zone then you are not deserving of foreign aid and are a “lazy refugee”. It seems like a very miseducated and disrespectful thing to pin a “refugee's” value to society on whether they can put in hard work despite escaping a war zone. Does…

Just quit my job after three days at an assembly line type job. Since I started, I have had phenomenal performance working as fast as people who have been there for months. I received ZERO feedback on how well I was working, no managers spoke to me, except for one who was watching me for a while and I thought they were gonna say SOMETHING ANYTHING good about me. The only thing I was told? “I need you to put your mask over your nose for me” MY BLOOD WAS FUCKING BOILING AFTER AND I JUST QUIT AND LEFT MY NEXT BREAK