Antiwork

is anyone else’s long game just leaving life behind eventually? i do want to clarify i am NOT encouraging or suggesting any action or anything at all to anyone, i am simply asking a question that i have asked myself time and time again. it’s important to say that i haven’t determined a conclusion yet, also. i know this topic is incredibly sensitive so i’ll elaborate by explaining my personal situation. i am queer, quite young (early 20s,) and honestly, perpetually exhausted. i have a pre-law degree which allows me to work in the legal field in administrative/assistant positions and also supports further education. i’ve also opted out of going to college any further because the debt i would incur as a result would likely devastate me financially. i presently earn roughly $30k~ annually and generally scrape by. i am incredibly perceptive of the world around me, and over time…

So I work remotely for a large insurance e organization. I told them I need a little less than half a day off because we may be putting our dog down due to rapid and unexpected decline. I was met with an empty “I’m so sorry” followed by “you can take an long lunch, but need to come back and complete assigned work as we are short staffed.” They know just what to say in trying times.

A few ideas I have: Why are you hiring for this position? How did your company handle covid? Has your company been impacted by “the Great Resignation?”

This is very likely not an original thought, but I haven't seen anything quite along the same lines yet – though I don't get to spend nearly enough time reading as I'd like to. Okay, so I was just talking with my partner about how the Canadian (and all over the world) housing market is being gobbled up by corporations (many just numbered) and the rich. Now, they've all been vehemently against any kind of raising of wages (not unlike anywhere else, really) but they've definitely figured out how to get the peanuts back that they so graciously give us with our garbage wages. When they buy up and own the housing market and then rent it back to us at outrageous prices, they are just recouping their costs for any wages they pay to us wage slaves. Then they use that money to help buy up more property, block…

At work today I experienced a conversation with my manager telling me and my co-workers today that we have lost our “food privileges” meaning that we can't order food while on break because one person left trash in the breakroom. I work at a restaurant where food is easily obtainable and half the time we're so busy we don't get a break long enough to get food from an outside source. This “food privilege” ban means when we work doubles which are an average of 12-14hrs in a day, we can't order food either. On top of that my friend's pregnant girlfriend works here also and was also told she could not order food and that just because someone has low blood sugar doesn't mean anything because our well-being isn't their responsibility. Now to lay the icing on the cake recently we haven't been able to keep kitchen staff due…

I have been at my job for 4.5 years and when I’ve requested days off I have NEVER been questioned or given shit about it, and I’ve had 3 different managers! I currently have 80 hours of personal PTO. Our manager just (understandably) quit and now some higher up is covering until we have a new one. I requested 3 vacation days today for JULY. Plenty of time to adjust schedule. Manager tells me she needs to review doctors schedules before she can approve. The schedules never change unless a provider takes off. I have NEVER once been told something needs considered before a day off is approved. Why should I be okay with that suddenly changing now? This bitch immediately sends out an email to the whole office that someone will need to cover my entire shift that day because I’m requesting personal days. She doesn’t even understand how…

I work 45+ hours a week at 17.60 an hour and yet I still can’t afford insulin. This country is a joke.