Antiwork

I’m salaried in low 20k a year range, live in the UK. I’m paid for 40 hours a week and work in the office and have a very long commute on public transport. I get the legal minimum holiday allowance and little to no employee ‘benefits.’ Multiple people at my job have told me I’m expected to do 2-3 people’s worth of work, and that’s only my main role. In addition to that I’ve been given extra projects and extra responsibilities while still being expected to do all of my other work too. The job is mind numbing and draining, my workplace is hostile as I’m regularly used as a scape goat for other people’s mistakes. I feel like I’m going nowhere. In the meantime, my friends who work office jobs are on 25k, 27k and 33k. They are either working from home or they’re working hybrid. They tell me…

Worked at this place for about a year. After 4 months was left alone in a two person job for about 8 weeks. I've worked 12 hours days, weekends, you name it I've done it here. Last month, unfortunately i got covid. The week after my mom had to get emergency heart surgery. I took the week off for covid, then a full week of work, then the next week I took two days to be with my mom at the hospital. The next two weeks I worked 6 days. Up until Thursday when I had vomiting and diarrhea. I was out Thursday and Friday and am currently here writing this at my place of employment. My coworker came in today and told me a bunch of crazy stuff but the one that stuck out to me was my boss asking if he should tell me to come in. My…

Surplus value is the value created by labour over and above the amount required to reproduce that labour. It is an intrinsic quality of human exertion, and has been present throughout history: it can be invested socially towards collectively agreed goals, it can be acquired by force by a feudal lord, or can be extracted through the process of production by a capitalist employer. Because of this, most businesses are immoral in nature. They will say things such as “but I took a risk” in order to justify underpayment of their workers. Similar to a parasite, they suck up all the surplus value of a worker to thierselves. How are they allowed to do this? Because they abuse their advantaged positions against those that are poor. They aren't desperate for food, so they're not forced into positions where they are required to work for those that pay them less than…

M25, works in finance, one and a half years of experience. Half year into my job my direct manager left, given me the majority of the workload. My new manager is aware the amount of workload I had and applauded me for how smooth I have taken over those responsibilities. I know, I know, 10% is way above industry standards, but even after the raise I am below new hires, tho different teams but same title, as well as comps from other company. During comp review, my manager told me I will be given a solid raise as well as a promotion by year end. I am just bummed given the high expectation. Even with the promotion I am scared that my new salary will be on the low end of that title. . How do I tell my boss I expected more and sound professional. Edit: I do not…

I think you guys will like this. I'm a student and have been trying to lend a job for a month now. One of the jobs that I've applied to was KFC. A week ago, I got an e-mail from their recruitment team. The e-mail said something like: “Hey, your CV looks very good, but after your interview on the phone, we've made the decision of stopping the application process with you.” Now, I have NOT received any phone calls from them. None. I have not been called by anyone who said that they're from KFC. On top of that, they didn't give me a contact email, nor a contact number. I replied to their e-mail, saying that I wasn't interviewed, but they haven't got back to me since. Lying straight to my face…

Just a reminder: the US deficit ran at 2.77T in 2021. That’s 5k for every man, woman and child. If you aren’t making 5k beyond your necessary expenses while working you’re net negative. While working at LabCorp I did the math and realized that I was literally destroying the environment (driving to work), paying into a government that was killing people for oil to subsidize that destruction AND falling into debt while most debt in the US is medical debt (I.e. the bulk of deficit spending that was being spent on the military for those wars so I could sit in traffic and on medical procedures that I was providing) and I was seeing none of it. I don’t know how we opt out. But I do know that We’re feeding a machine that abuses us and turns around and drops bombs on terrorists that it created.