Antiwork

I'll believe there's a massive anti-work movement for real when there is a labor shortage for farm workers, or better when, in the alternative, other people cooperate enough to free them very miserable degrees of wage slavery which they necessarily cling to. We're all in this together or it's not “antiwork” it's “mooch off the work of others”. We can do it. In other words, anti-work needs some concepts and practices about how to do, in practice, socially necessary work without relying on wage slavery and jobs done by self or others.

“Youre just lazy! Thats why you dont wanna work!” I actually have always loved work, ive loved learning, being active, talking to new people. My problem now like many though is work is only a means to survival. How I pay for claim to space to exist. Im not lazy im exhausted, I dont mind giving my time and effort for my community I just wish my community could deliver for me

Was I supposed to be able to predict the pandemic that contributed to the changes in demand in the film and advertising industry? Was I supposed to quit school early to get work before the pandemic? Even though all the employers seem to want trained employees. Was I supposed to train for something outside of my skill set and natural abilities that wouldn’t be affected by a pandemic? Was I supposed to go against my morals and just be an abuser that manipulates and takes advantage of people to gain power? People keep saying it’s my fault. My bad decisions. What did I do wrong? I went to school like the boomers told me to. I did the retail work and compromised my health. I even put myself out there and tried the freelance thing. I feel like I’ve done everything I was supposed to. But it’s still somehow my…

Seriously, WHY DO WE EVEN WORK? It can't be the damn health benefits of a health care system since that would be only a tiny part. So why does society make it so difficult to just disengage from the grid and… Live like a monkey or something? Heck! Hunter gatherers spent much less time working than we did! It feels like most tribes in the world got absolutely screwed over by colonialism and capitalism taking advantage of them. So why do we, as humans, have to work? What is it on this god forsaken planet that tells me I have to keep working? I'm not even poor, I'm fairly upper middle class and I still feel all this is working and money slaving is… NONSENSE. Sorry, I just had to get this rant out.

I work in the design department at a big fancy global firm, and it's safe to say that we get treated like a bunch of low rats. I was just scrolling through my LinkedIn when I came across a picture of most of the people in my workplace at a big fancy event receiving awards on stage and the only person who went from my department was the head of design. And there were a bunch of people who didn't need to be there if I wasn't there, I finished my probation last week and I would say oh okay so maybe I'm just too new to be considered a part of the team but no, there's people in my department who's worked here for almost a decade and they weren't there either and it's just put a huge dent to my ego. We put in way more work and…

Posting to anti-work bc this is the philosophy I share. I got a job offer, 25k above my salary now. I might have extended the truth on my resume, saying I worked at my last job and not putting my current job. My last job was terrible but I got good experience, but I worked there for like 5 months but I put it as my current job on my resume. Now that I have an offer, they wanna do a background check. Idk if they will do previous employers or not. Any anti-work people had an issue like this?

I cannot find a quantity surveyor a remote position (site is in Atlanta Georgia) for $170k/year right now… I blame all of you! Of course I'm just kidding about the blame thing, but this really does go deep, it's more than just the jobs people don't want to do, there's pockets of skills demand out there like I've never seen!

To be 100% honest living this way sucks. Living to pay rent and no place wanting to give you A decent pay/full time/40hours a week. Going to job interviews and hearing “we’ll contact you within 48 hours” and never hearing from that company again. Doing 30 minute long assessments just feel like another name in a file. Getting told that you’re gonna be a shift manager but then on first day hearing from everyone that they only work about 15 hours a week. I’m so tired of living every single day not knowing where my next meal is coming from or even how I’m gonna pay rent this month because a company decided to randomly cut my hours. Honestly it’s caused me to be in a really deep depression because everyone else seems to be traveling and doing really really well and I can’t even pay my rent on time…