Antiwork

Back at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009 when the economy went to shit I lost my job along with so many others. After a few months of being on unemployment I landed a job at a fast food restaurant as manager. This place was in a mall and I was more than qualified for it. It was 12 an hour, staff made 8 which was minimum here at the time. After a month sales were 12% over the previous year, we had the highest secret shopper score in the entire region, corporate came by with the owners and were very impressed with how I ran the store. It was clean and above their standards. One evening as I was closing with staff I was having dinner in the main eating area of the mall with a neighbor who also was a manager of another restaurant at the…

So I moved to the States last year and got married here. My spouse and I decided that in the next year (this year) we would travel back to my home country to see my family and have a sort of wedding celebration there. Well I got my green card earlier than I expected, so I am starting to look for a job. His aunt who was trying to help me out with a job at the bank she works for said never mind if I’m going on a 2 week trip in 8 months. Basically she said consider which is more important to you: the trip or a job. This is really gutting me because I was looking forward to this trip and seeing my family. Is there really no other option? My friend said that kind of work culture is ridiculous and it shouldn’t have been a big…

My wife is a big fan of the comedian Sebastian maniscalco and I took her tonight to see him perform live. He was making a joke about how service in restaurants is poor because the people who are working are “scabs” and the real employees are at home “collecting checks”. The crowd laughed and cheered. I’m writing this hours after the show has ended and I still feel the anger and disgust that I felt after he immediately told this “joke”. I’m trying to hold back tears. What he said is such complete bullshit and people believe it. I hate that people are being fed such lies. Funny enough I was also having a conversation with my friend earlier today and he said that he wouldn’t be surprised if his wages 20-30 years from now were the same as they are now. Everything thinks people are just lazy and don’t…