Antiwork

So today at work was a very busy day, but what made it worse was that one of my co workers decided to go out on the piss the night before and because he's a light weight called in sick. So rather than having 3 people working in the evening, there will be only 2. My manager asked if I could stay for a few extra hours but I wouldn't be able to as I had to reschedule a meet up with a mate as I covered a shift on Friday otherwise I would've stayed a bit longer. Once I had finished my shift I was saying by to co workers and what not, and my manager was writing down the time we were finishing and then made a remark that I'm not a “team player” because j wouldn't stay longer even tho injad been there for over 8 hours…

Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of seven anarchist workers in Chicago who were wrongly convicted for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886. 80,000 workers in Chicago had walked out on May 1 demanding a maximum 8-hour working day, alongside over 200,000 other workers across the US. Employers and the government were determined to crush the movement, and four of the anarchists were executed, with the fifth cheating the hangman by killing himself. An eighth was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. The surviving three were later pardoned, and the fight for the 8-hour day continued. Before his execution, defendant August Spies told the court: “if you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labour movement – the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery,…

I am not going to name names, but I've just been served by the most r/antiwork people ever. I bought “some meat”, and got “FUCKING MEAT” and a winning smile. Going through checkout, my companion got undercharged for “FUCKING MEAT” by every cent. And when he was about to say something, the person who was dealing with us said in a happy voice “have a nice day gents. See you again soon!” Sometimes, life is fucking brilliant.

I’ve been looking for work in a skilled trade, and most of the job listings are for 10 hour days, 5 days a week, and you need to be available if they need to call you in on a day off. And that’s just 10 hours on the job, I still have to get up early every day and spend who knows how long in traffic depending on absolutely nothing but chance. And no, the money definitely does not make up for it, I know of guys who’ve been in this trade for 10+ years who clear about $80,000 a year, which actually isn’t a lot where I live with the cost of living. Wasn’t one of the biggest labour wins supposed to be an 8 hour work day, with the whole idea being 8 hours for work, 8 for rest, and 8 for sleep?

I moved to another country for approximately 2 years. There were a ton of interesting opportunities for my line of work (specialty coffee barista, not for Starbucks type places* but small independent coffee shops and roasteries) there, and workers were generally more protected than where I'm from. I had two consecutive jobs where I was getting paid what I was supposed to, extra hours as well, extra stuff like commuting costs also being paid, days off and holidays being respected, coworkers and customers became real friends, etc. I got offered a promotion at my job and, simultaneously another place offered me a similar role for even more money. It was quite amazing. But something out of my control happened, and I had to move back to my country of origin. Here, my line of work is not even considered, there are no opportunities and I am now confronted by the…