Antiwork

Hei. I had been recently unemployed and I was sending my resumes around and going around restaurants and caffees to ask if they have any positions avalible. I was actually really suprised that couple of them told me they really need help, but do not have the money to pay people. And they told me that they are searching for a volunteer to work, a normal 8 hour workday. With no pay, but they offer experience and a nice recomendation letter. I really do not get that, why would someone work in a caffee or restaurant just for free. I even got one offer for a half of the minimum salary. It is a hard I get it in this corona times, but come on.

Unless you are talking about an ACTUAL slave or slave conditions, this word is entirely inappropriate to use if you are attempting to relate it to bad pay, lousy healthcare, rude managers, long hours, etc. None of these things in any way, shape, or form, resembles anything that actual slaves have gone through and it’s really offensive to toss that word around so casually. Thank you very much.

Something I keep noticing is that “landlords” are often demonized on r/antiwork. Yet at the same time, I can’t help but think that “landlord” is a rather vague term that is simply thrown around in this sub. There is a massive difference between a family who is renting out their second home in order to supplement their income after having their second child, and those massive rental companies which make it a point to ruin everything and everyone. Additionally, I know from personal experience that many low SES immigrants, particularly those who are undocumented and have little to no job security or benefits, heavily rely on renting out their homes and rooms in order to have something that somewhat resembles a steady income. So who exactly are the landlords that this subreddit is against?

I (30F) work for a well known, nationwide supplier as an Assistant General manger. I have two employees I need to dispatch as drivers during the day regarding our business – there is no way to avoid them. I'll also prefix this entire thread : I have been employed here for almost a year and within the last month, have had my General Manager resign (he was with the company for close to ten years). This has been a roller coaster of an employment, corporate is terrible all the way down to managers. I've two issues at work, regarding two separate employees, the incidents that happened yesterday, have completely baffled me and basically brought me to a breaking point. Incident one is regarding the safety of one of my employees, incident two is regarding my own safety as one of my employees assaulted me. Incident #1 : This happened in…

Hi everyone, I'm currently in college, and I work part-time three days of the week. I want to stop working one od those days and start at a later time another day. How would I ask my manager this? Also, what should I do if he refuses/begs me to reconsider. We're very understaffed so I know he needs all the help he can get but I've been very exhausted and started falling behind. I'm hoping to by reducing my hours I can raise my grades.

I was seeing a bit of Cast Away again recently and I realized something. In the opening, Tom Hanks character is essentially doing the Alec Baldwin “motivational speech” from Glengarry Glen Ross, although nicer so you're not supposed to get the idea he's a POS and the rest of the movie is karma. I haven't seen Glengarry Glen Ross, but I know the gist of it and have seen the ABC speech. Here's a rather well off executive flown in to whip workers who are probably worse off than even the bottom for American workers. He's engaged in labor tourism, like Mike Rowe. He works really hard a few days a month and spends the rest of the time managing. He doesn't have to then try and survive on what the people who have to do this all day every day do, and he doesn't have to do this all…