Antiwork

Literally the title. I just feel so guilty doing things I know will screw over others because of how shitty management is. Like if I don't over exert myself than someone else will have to and it'll stress them out so why not just do it myself? I don't want to be the only one doing the work anymore but I feel so guilty when management looks down on me for my work ethic. If I started a job well, I don't want to disappoint others. Listen, I'm aware that management doesn't care for me at all and a company is only worried about profits, but I have other coworkers I care about and my direct manager I care for and everyone in the sub seems to contradict themselves between “fuck the company do whatever you can to screw them over” and “the company exploits it's workers constantly and I'm…

All these employers bitching about not being able to get workers? Tough shit. What MAGA boomer BS But come on. If somebody isn’t going to pay enough, don’t work there. You want a living wage, they want a profitable business. How well the business is doing has nothing to do with your pay. Your pay is dictated by how much value you have over the next guy off the bus No, I’m not a business owner. But really, life is too short. To bitch about one business is ridiculous. How many of you guys have done anything to promote unions or raise the minimum wage? Call to your congressman? Reach out to possible unions? Form one yourself? GenX here, I’ve worked jobs where I felt I was underpaid and I left them. I’ve had the biggest asshole bosses ever. But it’s their business. You never make money when your name…

This just was so promising; a rise of the the working class against the corporate injustice, combined with leverage from “labor shortages”, an opportunity that could change history forever, but instead… What we got here is a bunch of people scoring internet points. Yes, there's many shitty employers, yes you were fired unfairly, yes you were asked to do more than your job description asked for, but more than anything else, yes you were paid less than what you need to afford your own life… But, this is a place to complain and pad each other in the back. No one is asking the important questions here. What would a work reform look like? Who would support it? Who we elect to represent us? Obviously, demanding and getting $100.00 per hour minimum wage would make that money immediately become the new $10.00 per hour as inflation would sky rocket even…

The company that offered me a position sent an email afterwards asking for basic onboarding paperwork like my 2 forms of ID, background check, drug test etc etc. But they're also asking for a copy of my high school diploma and for a minimum of 2 professional references to fill out their form. I'm not sure any of my past employers or coworkers will do it for me, I wasn't ever close to anybody. I quietly come and go at jobs. Do the references matter if they already offered the position and I accepted?

This feels the the optimum time to be signing work places up/teaching people how to unionize and even start unions on there own but as far as I can tell and from what I hear the IWW isn’t doing much of anything. Often they are what seems like the standard for what we are fighting for but I don’t really see them doing much of anything.

Saw this post recently https://redd.it/ugn6mu The housing crisis is worldwide wide. And worse in Europe. The US doesn't even make it on the graph compared to other countries. It's crazy.

I applied for a job and was selected to do two panel interviews. It went well and was asked to meet with the VP of the company. Before that meeting I received a call asking me to communicate to my current employer, a customer of the company I’m interviewing with, that I’m in the process of interviewing and ask if it would be a problem. I told the potential new company that there was no way I would do that and to take me out of the running for the position. They said they were concerned about upsetting a customer. Apparently they don’t understand that the reason I took the interview is because my current employer is going to stop doing business with them. I confirmed with another candidate that they asked her to do the same thing. It’s just stupid.