Antiwork

I work as an usher at a movie theater and my whole job is cleaning up after people and taking out their trash. I could rant for days about how disgusting the average person is and how I’m only paid $10 an hour to pick up after them. But I did some math the other night. I counted all the popcorn buckets in the trash at the end of the night and added their total cost together. It was around the $700 mark. That’s just for the large popcorns alone not counting the other sizes or drinks or hotdogs or candy or anything. I make around $400 per paycheck. Two weeks of my time and effort is literally worth less a single night’s worth of paper thin cardboard buckets that are sold just to be trash two hours later. It makes it all the more insulting when I find buckets…

A few months ago a coworker of mine quit. My boss then asked me to take on a part of that coworkers book of business. I told her I would if they promoted me to the next grade level for my position. (In my company our pay is associated with grade levels). She said yes, as it was a reasonable request as I have been with the company for 4 years. She is always positive in my yearly reviews and I don't have any marks against me. So she agreed that I was due for a promotion. A week later she confirmed she got it approved with her manager. I then assumed I got it and it would be present on my next paycheck or the one after. Boy was I WRONG! Please learn from me folks and get your offers or promotions in writing. A few weeks went by…

I used to think “if I won the lottery I'd do as much as I could to help the poor and middle class.” But honestly, I'm so exhausted by all the stupid shit this country is doing and all the stupid shit billionaires and CEO's that make up the stupid shit rules, I'd likely just pay off all my debt and get the hell out of here. And by that I mean I'd pack up all my important stuff, including my dogs, and we'd be moving to another country. Maybe Ireland? Or Norway? Or even New Zealand? Then I'd invest my money in a country that gives a shit about its people. It's selfish I know, but I'd want to invest in my own happiness first. The sad thing is I used to be a caring and loving person that wanted to do everything to make this world a better…

This subreddit is full of anti-boomer perspectives, but in the sixties and seventies, young people were revolting against work and capitalism. “The most promising development in the factories today is the emergence of young workers who smoke pot, fuck off on their jobs, drift into and out of factories, grow long or longish hair, demand more leisure time rather than more pay, steal, harass all authority figures, go on wildcat [strikes], and turn on* their fellow workers. Even more promising is the emergence of this human type in trade schools and high schools, the reservoir of the industrial working class to come. To the degree that workers, vocational students and high school students link their lifestyles to various aspects of the anarchic youth culture, to that degree will the proletariat be transformed from a force for the conservation of the established order into a force for revolution.” -Murray Bookchin, “Listen,…

For 5 years, I was a senior accountant doing corporate accounting for a midsize mental health company. I joined in 2016 after a friend recommended me and, coming from food service, it quickly became the best job I'd had to that point. It was very family-oriented, with significant efforts to promote work-life balance and very understanding controller, VP, and President. High-level staff routinely conversed with the “front line”, the VP bought bagels for everyone (150-ish people) every Friday, and there were annual retreats and Christmas parties. Of course a mental health firm understood the importance of, well, mental health! I was the first staff accountant on a team of a controller, an assistant controller/lead, five seniors, and me. Every month, we closed the books for 22 subsidiary companies. This took a week of dedicated work, but since it was industry and not public, outside of close there wasn't much to…