Antiwork

True story. Back in 2010, I worked for a company called bargain network located in california. They shut it down, to go “online only”. Then I found another place similar to where I worked, and most of the people that worked at BN got jobs over there, so at least I had quite a few references when I applied. I kept going back, going back, to see the status of my application, saw it was on top of the “to be hired” pile. For some reason I just never got in, never understood why. Until the dreadful truth later I got from a friend. You see, when I went there, everybody looked STONED / high AF. It was kind of odd to me. I didn't think much of it. Maybe smoking weed was allowed? IDK. In order to get in and be hired, you had to bring a small bag…

I work at an ingredients manufacturing plant operating the machines. We have a union, but it is not in the employees control at all. The union leaders get corporate positions at the end of their terms and we continue to lose all our benefits contract after contract. This job used to be the cream of the crop that everyone in my town aspired to have, but it's slowly turning into another wage slave job. Last contract we lost sick days and it was replaced by a point system, all our bonuses are just raffles for trips that the same 4 people have won every year or a 50 dollar gift card (before it would've been cash based on production revenue, which of course has been at an all time high for the past 5 years. ) This next contract were set to lose triple time after 55 hours worked, which…