Antiwork

For the reference – worked on a cruise ship for 6 years and started on an entry position and grabbed over 10 promotions reaching top-tier management. The entry positions are generally paid at $500-$600 per month. For $600 per month – you will work every single day (literally) – while your 'day off' will mostly be 2 hour off during lunch or breakfast time once a week. Some people get stuck on these positions for a year or two, working 70 hours per week ( at minimum ) 70 hours per week, 280 hours per month, $600 per month. Before covid struck – Carnival made 8 billion dollars IN PROFITS. 70 hours per week, 280 hours per month, $600 per month – let it sink in. Later on, the salary gradually rises up – in my department the next tier is $950 fixed, then later, from a pool of 'mandatory…

A little context I work for a conservation district and we are a combination of county/state employees. about 3years before I started they got “temporarily” moved to a basement… we are still here. I also happen to live less than 5 min from the office. So anyway this week and next we have a bunch of zoom classes for trainings and our manager won’t let us watch them from home. So I come in Monday not feeling well and ask if I could just watch them from home and my manager says no what’s the difference between watching them from home and here. As I glance around our concert basement w no ceiling tiles and over to my desk which is under the waste water pipe so I hear every flush… um there’s a lot but for starters windows and heat are what comes to mind. Long story short I…

I've been working in this place for 3 months now and I just quit my job today, it really sucks to do 1.55$ per hour working 8 hours and having one single day off the Wednesdays, the job was basically being an all-in-one employee for a supermarket and we were forced to work 12 hours in holidays, I spent new yeark working and had to work the next day (1 January) in the evening. I don't need to add that it was just stressing as fvck, chairs? What's that? We don't even had a f*cking fan in the storage we were forced to eat lunch at. It was preferible to eat at the stairs were the air-conditioning of the store still reached. It was a Thermal sensation of 92°F there! Not to mention the awful paiment… And the discounts added to it, that means that if something is robbed it…

So a few weeks ago we had one of those townhall meetings. All the board members basically boasting about how well the business is going, showing off the numbers, speaking about how we are way beyond our targets. And then the Q&A session comes, and the most asked question is whether we're gonna have company-wide raises to compensate for the inflation. And the HR lady comes up and says that no, because “we dont give people inflation raises, but we're gonna try give more people raises this year, but we cant promise you anything, because we are merging with that one company we have just bought for gazillions of dollars”. Well Betsy, your stupid merger won't pay my rent. Ugh, the audacity of those people

So this is it guys and girls. Iv finally gotten to a point where I'm joining this movement in the way I feel like I can. This is a long time coming for me but it took that time to realize what I needed to do. Let me explain. Some background. My wife and I make a decent amount of money for our region. We snagged a house on foreclosure years ago that would have normally been way out of our price range. We don't live outside of our means and are smart with cash we do have. I work in IT and have 10 years of experience just in this field. I am the only person in my organization who does or can do what I do. Even my supervisor who has an additional 20 years experience on top of mine cant do all the things I do here.…

Or set it on fire. One way or another, we need to get rid of this system. Effective immediately. Sincerely, lil_Goundbeef

I was offed a job from a guy I went to high school with. He has a business in called Makai Cafe in Hana Maui. He promised me a good job and a place to stay while I got on my feet. No brainer for me a job and a place to stay in paradise. I use what little money I have left and get out of my rental agreement to move. I get there and they forgot to pick me up from the airport ended up waiting over 24hrs to get a ride two hours away to a remote city in Maui. I get to the property I will be staying at and the room I have will be a tent on a pallet that is full of someone else’s old clothes and trash. At this point I’m thinking I fucked up. I decided I’ll work till I can…