Antiwork

I started work at 7:45am on Wednesday and we didn’t finish the shift until 10:15am today, Thursday. Yeah. Fun times. Yay USA!

More and more am I realizing how incredibly stingy this F500 company I work for is. For a retirement celebration, around 20 people in my department went out to a fancy restaurant for lunch. Most of the items on the menu were no less than $15 for appetizers and between $20-30 for entrees. Being a company event during work hours, I was conscious to the idea that I should go on the cheaper side assuming the company would pick up the bill. My meal came out to $23 after tax. Everyone was having a great time until the “top dog” at the table tells the waiter to split the checks individually. You could see it in people's faces as the waiter goes around billing everyone. Who the fuck invites a load of people out for a company gathering during work hours and then drops the bill on them? This is…

Because they've realized that if their bosses find out that the work can be done from home, they'll be the ones who are out of jobs. Why have managers if there's no body around to manage?

This happened a few years ago. I was working as a Middle School Social Studies teacher. I enjoyed my job and the kids, I had great relationships with colleges, but the worst administrator even!!! It was my 5th year teaching at this school in an impoverished area. I was pregnant with my first child, who was due at the beginning of the next school year. I approached my principle in March (a woman in her 40s with children of her own) and requested a 3rd or 4th period prep for the following year so that I could pump breast milk after I returned from maternity leave. That would be mid morning and I could pump again at the end of the school day so I'd have enough to give my daycare provider (an old college who quit after undergoing horrible treatment by the same administrator). This was a perfectly reasonable…

I guess there's this attitude around that antiwork people are lazy, want to put in the least amount of effort, gripe about their jobs and their managers. And sure, some are like that and I'm not gonna judge because fuck this dystopia, deal with it how you see fit. But I've been faithfully playing the system since I turned eighteen, working my way through the cheapest, closest to home school I could find, having almost no student loans, no car loan, no credit card debt, living with parents. I even lucked out and made a ton of money during COVID due to a very unique situation, ended up saving half my income in 2021. I'm a hard worker who has always had stellar performance reviews, great relationships with every supervisor. I worked retail and service for seven years and I went through the trenches. And I still can't get ahead.…