Antiwork

I'm gonna be brutally honest here. I feel like I'm going down a kinda doomer path rn. I joined this sub because I needed an outlet, and it's the only thing I check Reddit for anymore. However, I've been unemployed for a while and I feel conflicted. Everything I look at feels like either throwing myself into the gaping maw of the brutal capitalist machine or a total pipe dream. I see co-ops, unions, and nice jobs and I feel nothing but envious of people who are living a better life than me. Some days I wonder if I should just give up and apply for disability. Any thoughts?

Hello I work for a night club that has issues with racism. At the core, they avoid hiring black people. The racism spreads out from there and they look for any reason to not let black people into the club. The racism then continues into continuously micro managing the music that I play and claim that I'm “bringing in a bad crowd” They cant keep DJs because nobody wants to work for a night club thats straight up no fun. The music they want us to play sucks and no customers or employees stick around. The club is going down the shitter. I make okay money but I dont want to work for a place that is racist. I have a moral problem with it and feel gross about it. I also have a moral problem with playing objectively bad outdated music that nobody is enjoying as a professional DJ…

So with as little information as possible I just got a new job (in the US) and without being told it was sales and I was swept up back into the sales industry. Now I have done sales before and worked door to door. I have worked leads and done work before with legitimate businesses. However just this past week I got a job and I am very skeptical of the place. Everything just doesn't sit right for me and I can't stand thinking about what it is I am “selling”. I am stuck in a odd position because I need a job to find a place to live, but I also want to go back into the IT field rather than sales/marketing. This job will work for now, but I am finding myself unable to actually sleep because I am thinking of what needs to be done the next…

I’m going to school in the summer for coding. Or perhaps I should do a coding boot camp and get hired faster? I just want remote work.

Some context… My partner and I both have well paying jobs that we enjoy (for the most part), we keep having massive arguments because she works 10-12 hours a day and most weekends. Not because she is forced to, but because she has so many meetings during her normal work day that she feels the need to work OT just to get her job done. I, on the other hand, start work around 7:30 or 8am and finish at 3:30 or 4pm most days. When I finish work I rarely think about work until the next morning. If I run out of time to do something, then it gets done tomorrow. My thought is that I grew up dirt poor, a job has always been a means to an end, if I enjoy it that is a bonus. My partner on the other hand grew up firmly in the upper…

So for context I’m up for a promotion at my job. It would still be the same title technically, but Id have a bunch of additional responsibilities and a raise. Cool, that’s fair. So I have this meeting with my boss, who is actually a really good person and nice as a boss , and ask about the budget they have for salary in this new role. Turns out it’s not a raise , actually about what I’m making currently hourly and about 25% less than I would need to qualify for a lease at an apartment in the area. I tell him this as my current lease ends in a couple months, and I need to start looking for a new place to live. He responds by saying he can just lie about my salary to the landlords so I’d qualify I was just like that’s not exactly the…

I do work as a Grafik Designer and I took a few days out of my normal schedule to participate in a Design Competition for a Logo for the student Union. There are 2 phases in the comp where in the first round 3 winners will be chosen and given feedback to their design for those 3 to compete in the second round. The winner gets 1000€ and the other two chosen ones get 250€. Long story short: I actually got through to round 2 but now I am hesitating actually finishing it because I thought about how utterly unfair this stuff is. Instead of taking 1.5k€ and paying a Grafik designer for a professional logo they let 40+ people put HOURS of work in to with a high chance of not getting payed at all. Am I the only one thinking this is simply not right?

I shared this over at r/maliciouscompliance but figured it was also appropriate here too. A few years ago, I worked at a big retail company and had for many years. Eventually I went through enough gradschool education to get my license to work at a higher level. Much more pay, more job satisfaction, more responsibilities, fancy title, but the job market was rough. I stayed on with my company to work in a ‘floater’ position, where I would cover a large area and work at all the stores within that area on a rotating but irregular basis. Eventually I wanted to get a staff position, where I have a single store assigned. The area was huge, the furthest store being over a 100 miles from my home, and that is exactly where I was assigned to train for the new role. It was a rough store, folks in my position…