Antiwork

Hello antiworkers! I am a student doing research on occupational mental illness, and as part of my research I have to conduct an interview. I am looking for someone who has (had) a diagnosed mental illness as a result of the work they do or the environment they work in. A few criteria: – you must have or have recently had a diagnosed mental illness as a result of your work or work environment. you must be available for at least 30 minutes to do the interview, either in person (in the Netherlands) or online within the next few weeks. you must be able to do the interview in English or Dutch, preferably in English. you must be okay with me using the data from the interview for the sole purpose of my research paper. Let me know if you'd like to do this, it would help me and my…

[Not naming my employer YET. Gonna wait until I quit] My direct manager has been retaliating against me since Feb because I got her chewed out by a (much better but) different manager. I reported her to HR immediately after the first incident, and recorded all calls with her after that. HR took a whole fucking month to get back to me, to take another week to “research” and then to tell me that they have decided to not take any action. But HR was kind (/s) enough to tell me that the distress I exhibited could be talked to with the company offered mental health resources. They don't know I have our calls recorded, and IDK if I will ever tell them. Part of me wants to send all 7+ calls (each an hour long) to the CEO. The other part of me knows (well knows after getting advice…

I saw a post recently where a business owner got sick, a competitor told his clients he was dying so they all left him and joined his competitors. So he lost his business and got a job for $15/hr. He then says “That’s what I paid my workers! I can’t survive on that!” Business owners know we can’t survive. I see so many posts that are like “how ignorant can they be?” They’re not ignorant; they’re not misinformed. They just don’t give a damn that our lives suck. They don’t care. They never have and they never will. Things have only ever changed when we fight them for rights.

I think I just need to rant. My anxiety hasnt dropped since yesterday. It started when I recieved a notification from my bank app. The cost of my gas and electric. The cost before Boris Johnsons bullshit was £95 a month, then £140 and now £216. That's over £2000 a year for a basic living requirement and it's set to go higher in October. Wages arent changing, putting petrol in your car just to get to your job is an eye watering expense. Around my other expenses and the expenses of childcare/providing for my family, I'm shot and scared. I'm in a probation period with my job that's up for review tomorrow. My wife works part time to aid childcare costs and honestly her job is incredibly stressful. She works with the health service which has been bludgeoned with cuts leaving people like her over worked and in constant burnout…

 “Work,” referring to what workers do, should not be confused with exertion; play can be more strenuous than work. Work is compulsory production, something done for some other reason than the satisfaction of doing it. That other reason might be violence (slavery), dearth (employment) or an internalized compulsion (the Calvinist's “calling,” the Buddhist's “right livelihood,” the Syndicalist's “duty to serve the People”). Unlike the play impulse, none of these motives maximizes our productive potential; work is not very productive although output is its only justification. Although it does not have to be, play can be productive, so forced labor may not be necessary. When we work we produce without pleasure so as to consume without creating — containers drained and filled, drained and filled, like the locks of a canal. Job enrichment? The phrase implies a prior condition of job impoverishment which debunks the myth of work as a source…

Of course, here is where I turn… I take a few medications (NOT MIND ALTERING) as I have a few health issues. I’ve spoken about them at length in past posts on other subs, if you feel like looking into that. I had a third interview (second in person) at an integrated health clinic. They offer health insurance, seem like a good fit for what I can do, and pay well. (I am not a medical provider, I’d be doing administrative work). And something kind of red flagged me. The doctor at the last interview made a comment about America being overmedicated (not wrong), gave me statistics, etc. Which is fine! They try to do healthcare without excessive meds. But he made a comment about living and acting out the lifestyle while at work. He said “don’t be talking about taking an Advil for your headache, do that on your…

I've been working at this job since September last year and the pay is awful simply due to me only being 18. There was another person working the same job as me who was older but they let him go because of there being “not enough work” but now they're putting his workload onto me and I'm still not even being paid the living wage whereas the person they let go did get paid the living wage due to him being 25. My contract says I have to give a month's notice but I really don't want to work where I don't feel appreciated. I have received and accepted a job offer that is more than 2x my current pay and I'd like to start that as soon as possible and I'd just like to know whether I can get away with no notice without legal repercussions or at the…

**A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. *This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny… In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity… **The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods Jesus, in his sermon on the Mount, preached idleness: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Jehovah the bearded and…