Antiwork

The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked — 21st Century Edition https://preview.redd.it/67do1ngcz5k81.jpg?width=342&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f57fd98ff1bbfb2cdf7d9ba1a87b01c9a730be9

I always laughed at this growing up when my family and teachers always spouted that crap. Sorry but if I set something to where only my friends can see it, only my friends can see it.. “future employers” don’t have some magic account that sees everything on your page or account regardless of your privacy settings cause that’s illegal Wtf? Who started this stupid myth? These companies don’t care about us enough to provide decent health insurance or a living wage, we’re just bodies to them, our personal lives don’t matter to them. Sure there are some companies that will try to look at your shit but if you have half a brain you set your shit to private and post whatever you want just never understood who was stupid enough to spread this myth.

For context I work at a hospital overnight, and I'm PRN, which means what I'm not full time and make my own schedule. To keep my job I only have to work 8 days in 8 weeks. I make my schedule a month at a time, always working thurs-sun. I've called out twice in the year I've worked there and I consider myself a good employee. Recently we have gotten a new supervisor and she literally text me almost every off day asking me to come in. If I reply and say I can't (I've just stopped replying) shell ask me to work half of a shift (they are 12 hours) etc.Sometimes offering double pay. I feel so guilty for turning it down but god its so draining. They know I am a full time student, and working 48 hours a week as it is, is alot for me to…

I've just finished watching Downfall and I couldn't help but be struck by how it could be the parable of the post 1979 “greed is good” neo-Liberal capitalist system. The first and most obvious lesson from it is that modern capitalists will happily kill you to make a profit, and they'll charge you for the privilege. I'd like to think most of us here know this, at least on some level. But Boeing's consistent decisions to push forward on getting a plane into the air that they knew was dangerous, and their consistent efforts to avoid being forced into any mitigation of that risk (even after 2 of them had crashed, and the FAA had produced a report predicting 15 further crashes I've the lifetime of the aircraft without this issue being addressed) if there was any chance it would impact their bottom line is a particularly in your face…

Disclaimer, Im not a doctor nor do I have a degree for this shit, just speculation I firmly believe the new CDC guidelines that lower the amount of time you have to be quarantined from 14 to 10 to now 5 days are absolute bullshit and are just designed to put bodies in workspaces. I got covid last week from my job (I work at a nursing home) and my boss told me that since I'm just coughing and don't have a temperature anymore that now I have to come into work today at 7am. My company's protocol is to covid test twice a week, and I asked her if I should bother testing, and she said no bc it would most likely come back positive. This got me thinking that “well if the rapid test came back positive, wouldn't I still be contagious?” She said that a positive covid…

So I'm in a bit of a dilemma..I've been offered a much easier job doing the same thing I'm doing now (appliance delivery) with a $-20 drop in pay but I get two days off a wk no wkends I can either 1099 or W2..now I've told my boss about my bad shoulders,back etc I always get these “Me too” stories in return my lift gate is broken so it feels like it's 100lbs when I go to close it up not good for my shoulders or back needless to say..an said easier job has made me aware that they want me to start next Wednesday my boss isn't a a-hole like some of the bosses I read about but I would like to hear a few different opinions on this matter my boss loves having an employee like me that doesn't bitch just gets it done so I feel…