Antiwork

Something I’ve noticed on other subreddits relating to jobs and career guidance is that many people accept and perpetuate toxic anti worker practices and culture in their “helpful” replies to posts bringing up something that is problematic, “Get used to it,” etc. I thought those subs would be more helpful and empowering but it’s only confirmed that this is a really systemic issue that people have internalized. People protect and enforce the system that oppresses them. I think the system is perpetuated ultimately by the singular, the ego, and is a trauma response and can manifest as personality disordered management and coworking styles.

So a little back story: started working at my current job in Nov (one of the 3 largest Pizza chains in the US). There was a guy named Mike managing the store, he left in Dec, and since then a new manager named James has come in. Apparently James ran the store a couple years ago before Mike came in, so they game it back to him once Mike left. Anyw, my coworkers who remember James have been telling me all about how bad of a temper he has, and how he's always yelling at employees. I secretly hoped he would do this to me, as idgaf and will give it right back to him. Well last week he finally did. I had been working a nine hour shift, and when it was time to go, they demanded I stay and help out since we were busy. I refused, and…

I work in the public sector — basically doing manual labor in various capacities for a community. We are about to enter contract negotiations between the bargaining unit and management. In doing research, I have noticed that pay of those in similar positions of public work, in similar communities does exist as a higher wage rate — as much as $5-6 dollars more per hour. I was talking to my lead yesterday — he is union, too — and we we discussing the last job opening that was posted at our place of work. Our employer doesn’t hire very often and rarely fills positions. So to see something be open was great to see. Turns out nobody in-house took the position, and out of 8 external applicants, 6 were not invited back for a second interview and 2 had committed to the job but then backed out because they found…

hello looking for some comfort in the group because work has been very stressful as of late and im just finding myself on a friday night crying. i am in charge of a big project but because of other work responsibilities taking up time i have not been handling it well and now other departments have come in to “save” this project, which reflects badly on my department and myself. just feeling terrible about myself, my workload and work situation today.

My SO has NEVER gotten a raise with the state. He is a licensed civil engineer. He has gotten promoted which comes with a pay increase, but never a standard raise. Since his last promotion 3 years ago he hasn't had any pay increase. Link to legislation

Forget the radical websites, political Twitter and all the Facebook nonsense, I love this sub-reddit. Everyone showing each other that there is a better way free of oligarchs, idotic bosses, rules and endless wage slavery to buy endless crap.

So basically I worked in a startup. The culture of flexible working is seriously fucked. And there's my boss who thinks we should be researching to get the information first and only come to him for discussion after that. Many times he didn't give us clear and complete information and we made a mistake by not knowing what to do. And instead of guiding his team member he shouts at us and publicly shames us infront of people from other department. Many times people in our company say that our department is not efficient at all. And when we don't get proper information about assigned work to the department from the department lead how will it be ever efficient. And not only that he doesn't even sit near to us while working as well. He works in a floor below separately from our department which he is supposed to be…

So say a task can be completed in 2 weeks at a normal work day. There is no way to make it be completed quicker, unless you work more hours in the day. Why do managers then try and set deadlines for this task at 1 1/2 weeks then? My thought is it’s a ploy to guilt people into working more hours. Or do you think they are just so not intune with the process they just don’t know? I personally think it’s a form of passive aggressive management style.