Antiwork

Hi fam, Looking for practical advice on how to approach this. I love my job and my manager is great. However, the office is very far and I have loved working from home and spending more time with my family. The higher-ups are expecting that everyone will show up at the office full time by May and this is potentially a deal breaker. Does anyone have any tips on how to speak with my manager about this? I don't really want to quit because the job and my manager are great.

I work for AT&T as a sales rep. We are unionized. I’ll try and keep this as short as possible. When I bid for this month’s schedule I was able to get every Sunday off. This is great because Sundays are the only day I really get to see and spend time with my wife because of our different schedules. Well, we had someone quit so they put me on the schedule for all but one Sunday this month to cover. My wife was furious and cried because we don’t see each other much but there was nothing I could do.. I was equally mad. Well to make up for it we planned a big date day on the only Sunday I have off this month. I purchased movie tickets, and we planned to have dinner out that night as well as just being together the whole day. Well, when…

We all pretty much get paid the same even though he drives the truck to move wares and I make the same collecting donations. We talked about how when any of us have mentioned to our boss that we need a raise he always says that they can't be cause we get bonuses all the time and that they give us turkey and hams for Easter and thanks giving. The bonuses rarely happen btw. The hams and turkey are nice but I really would prefer a living wage over free food. I make 10 dollars an hour btw Does anyone else work or has worked for a company that is like this.

I was reading Lee Drutman’s book “Breaking the Two Party Doom Loop,” and it got me thinking about the need for a multi-party system (and more importantly, a collection of parties that are committed to worker rights). What do you think it’ll take for there to be a genuine political movement that makes this sort of systemic change possible? Are there more effective ways of political organizing, or are we simply too constrained by our current circumstances (monopolistic platform companies, a broken FEC, systems of lobbying and dark money financing, etc.)? I’m trying to stay optimistic but it’s hard – this community gives me hope, so I wanted to hear what you all have to say.

I’ve recently found a rental thats amazing imo, and I’m thinking of getting a second job just so I have some play money and put some more into my savings. I was wondering if any reasonable job would be willing to put up with me only working on my days off, since I work 9-7 just about everyday, and if that’s a ridiculous request? Ive only worked one job at a time so this whole concept is new to me.

This is insane. Meanwhile wages aren’t going up. What’s the answer? I’m already worked to the bone. How many hours do you work? Are you going to have to work more due to the rising cost of living?