Antiwork

in the break room getting coffee Coworker: “How's your day going John?” Me: “Living the dream” Coworker: “Wow, people usually only say that when they're truly miserable” I just started laughing because he was actually spot on. Thankfully this was at my former job which I left for a much better opportunity, with significantly reduced misery 🤣

I mean, isn't it obvious? Since 2008 the elite class and their media have been dividing us through social issues so we wouldn't unite by class and protest and fight for our wages and workers rights. So now that BLM is losing steam and the “great resignation” is changing the power balance between employers and employees in US market, oh what a great coincidence! Now they decide to divide the working class again with abortion this time, so we go out to protest this and forget what we were doing. Abortion will now take the media coverage for months, workers will stop paying attention to the creation of unions and will stop debating about how slow the wages are increasing when the “free market” balance is now for the employees. I'm not American, I'm Spanish, in my country they use other subjects to distract us from class war, normally the…

Because they're a “secure” organisation, work won't let me print off anything at home due to it being work related and “confidential” information of their inner workings. Problem is there's tons and tons of documents to look at in order to know how to do your job and you get sick of looking at a screen all day that you can minimally edit or highlight or write notes on Anyone ever had an issue like this? Any work arounds that won't trigger security systems and the like? There's some rules that are common sense, but then there's rules which are downright stupid if you want your workers to be actually informed about their own job.

Is $45k a year worth it? It’s also an hour drive out

This is asking for any advice on course of action. I started a job with a local ice cream shop, they told me I have to do a training shift before I can work alone. I went and it turned out to he a full 8 hour shift. After a week of working I noticed I was only paid for 2 days of work out of the 3 I did. I assumed since I was paid on sundays and worked friday through sunday that week that he didn't pay me for the shift I hadn't finished yet. After another week I asked if I could start being paid for the shift I was working on sunday as well, after some talking and clearing up confusion they told me training was unpaid and it was a normal thing in “the industry”. The next week I let him know I was quitting…

Do you think that it’s possible one day far from today,post boomer generation?

Wanted to bring some positivity here. I work for an enormous company (think Fortune 150) with 100k+ employees. My supervisor and boss told me when I let them know my son might be born early that “your health and the health of your wife and son are more important than quarterly reports”. I’m taking 6 weeks of fully paid paternity leave (in US so that’s actually pretty good for here as sad as that is) and they are totally fine with it. I’m super lucky to have the bosses I do and I appreciate it. I wish everyone had my kind of bosses, and there’s no reason they shouldn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I think everyone should get fully paid months and months of leave when having a baby and it should be universal but to support my family I’ll take what I can get I guess.