Antiwork

I’m 17 and got fired from wendys for using the bathroom after being told I wasn’t allowed, I was in there less than 10 minutes and notified people of me leaving. I was working 5 hours so I didn’t get a break, it wasn’t during lunch or dinner rush I stayed for a few minutes after being told I couldn’t go to wait for the cars to leave. I talked to the head manager today and she said she doesn’t agree with the way I was fired so I still have to come in to work today. What can I do?

I got an IT job working for a factory in the southern US. This was a very small farming town of about 3,000 people so IT people are non-existent, in fact I lived 2+ hours away from this town when I took the job and moved to that town. This is important information for later. When I took the job, it was a contract position for 29k per year and the intention was to hire me full time directly to the company within one year. My co-worker was full time with the company and was making 93k per year. For roughly 3 years it was just us 2 IT guys supporting 2 factories. Then all of the sudden they give us a 3rd location to support and at this time I was hired on full time with the company for a salary of 31k per year….my co-worker still made over…

I drove from SJ to LA last night. It's a 6 hour drive, and halfway through, I stopped at a McDonald's. I ordered a small sprite, 2 cookies, and large fries. When I received my order, it was a Large Sprite, 4 cookies, and a ton of fries had been dumped in the bag. I've seen stories on this subreddit of food service employees filling up customer bags with extra goodies as a form of rebelling against corporate, but I've never actually been on the receiving end of this before. God bless you, random McDonald's employee. I hope you're doing well, and thank you for brightening my day with this act of kindness.

I am going to flat out say it, I don’t think being antiwork makes any sense, how can you be against working, work as a whole, or labor? You may not like work but someone has to do the job. I understand pushing for more labor rights, I am currently writing an essay on how the 32 hour workweek is actually more productive than the 40 hour workweek, due to decreased burnout and more efficient time usage. But how can you end labor entirely? I just don’t see how it’s possible.