Antiwork

Like how in the Sims you get a job and a house.

I’m so tired of arguing with fucks on the internet about this. If there is a steady line of people just open and ready to take these jobs, why is literally every single one understaffed. How the absolute fuck did we see the devastating effects that a depleted workforce has on the economy in 2020, with people having to risk them and their families lives, for 10/hr, getting hurled words like “essential”, only to pick up this shitty attitude of “youre not worth more pay” two years later. If you set foot in a store, warehouse, coffee shop, restaurant, order off amazon, or consume literally anything, and you do not value the work that goes into it, you do not deserve these things. I just. Dont. Get. It. “Anyone can do it” is simply not true. A CEO couldn’t do a day in what their bottom level workers do. This…

So I work for a large logistics company where I spend most of my time training new hires to drive forklifts. It doesn’t offer higher pay than being a full time dockworker, but it’s pretty easy and I enjoy teaching people. Normally I train 2-3 people over the span of a month, and if someone is struggling I can usually give them an extra week of one-on-one attention to help round out the rough edges. However for the past couple months we’ve been hiring a lot more people than normal. Now I’m training 4-5 people at a time and my training schedule has been shortened by a week. On top of that, they’re no longer allowing me to spend extra time with new hires who are struggling. This has led to a noticeable drop in the quality of work, and a noticeable increase in unsafe diving, by new hires at…

So I do a little side job for my mom’s company to help them go paperless before they move locations. Normally, I’m working from maybe 10pm – 1:30, far past the time anyone is going to be working in the office. They started making me use an app to clock in a couple months ago, and I just now found out that half the time that I’m clocked in after 11:59pm, my hours from 12:00 am onward get deleted. I just talked to my mom about it, and it sounds like she only wants me to check my hours from a month ago and drop it from there. When she told me that I really need to start checking my hours from now on, I told her, that as her daughter, yeah I’ll get working on that, but as her employee, she shouldn’t be putting the fault on me. She…

A lot of the hilos/forklifts at work have been overheating and breaking down recently. Today I had to let my hilo cool down because it was approaching dangerous temps. Boss walks by and I tell him that my hilo needs to be looked at. He gives me this disgruntled look and says how about five other hilos are in need of repairs as well. I just kinda smiled and went about my business. Bosses really think mechanical equipment and tools don't need to be maintained and taken care of; it's astonishing.