Antiwork

I work a warehouse job. I drive heavy machinery. This warehouse is at the end of a winding, circuitous, hilly road, which is prone to freezing over with thick sheets of ice during wintertime. This morning, I attempted to report for work, only to find out that a tractor-trailer had eaten shit, blocking both sides of the road. I called my supervisor and informed him that I could not make it to work, due to the accident blocking the only road to the work site, as well as heavy police presence in the area. He understood and said something to the effect of, “Hey, stuff happens. You aren't the only one. Use your sick time. Don't be a hero.” So I go home and then get immediately berated by my parents for not working, despite having done everything according to company procedures, and doing my due diligence in attempting to…

Just because the US isn’t a carbon copy of Russia doesn’t make us better or any more free. We get screwed all day every day and have become comfortable in the subliminal ways we are fucked over by our government. This is exasperated by a huge gap in quality of life/ the ‘American’ experience of those below the poverty line and the rich, the experience of POC vs non POC, and many other filters of oppression…. it’s easy to dismiss claims like mine because it’s also easy shelter away from the dark side of the American experience if afforded that luxury. As a US citizen I worry that what is happening overseas will be exploited as propaganda and used to further brainwash our citizens into continuing idea that ‘Merica’ is the greatest, freedom loving place on the planet and we are selfish, spoiled, entitled, and un-woke for being dissatisfied with…

I recently started looking for new employment after closing down my personal business of 12 years a few months ago. (Covid and greed ruined construction). One of the reasons I shut down was I could not afford to pay my workers better and being skilled in construction you should make good money. So I have applied to several places I've decided that local fast food places retail stores are paying starting anywhere between 13 and $17 an hour in my area. So if I'm the continuing the construction field in any way I want high 20s if not more. After all I can go flip burgers for 14 bucks, and not have to use tools or drive my truck or deal with mud and rain and heights and weather and just you know things that are unpleasant. But I applied for an airplane painting position. The ad online said between…

Little background, I work for a local government as a first responder. On Christmas they hired a food truck to make Christmas meals for all the field staff. They worked with logistics to get the meals out to all field staff members. That night about 40% of field staff notified admin of severe nausea/vomiting and stomach cramps. Many called off the next day. An investigation was performed by the department and found that the pork in the meals decimated was bad and concluded that the symptoms were caused by food poisoning from said meals. The people that called off had to used their own PTO including me who was anchored to the bathroom for about 5-6 hours. I only had 2.22 hours of PTO available so I lost a significant amount of income by calling off from food poisoning. I haven’t contacted HR yet but have confirmed that they used…

While I'm at work I consider it giving them my time, I don't clock out for my 15 min lunch or my 30 min break. I feel like if I'm required to stay on the premises during my “free time” then I should be compensated.

I’ve been feeling super burnt out lately, but this is the straw that broke the camels back. Amidst everything going on today I got a ping from my manager telling me to leverage the current Ukraine and Russia situation as a conversation starter to pitch our products to our clients. What the actual fuck, in what world is that considered even remotely okay, especially right now? EDIT: I work in finance

Well the title sums it up. I tried to explain that there are a thousand different factors that come into play. Mainly that proper education extends beyond reading and writing. They say that you don’t need a good educational system as long as it teaches you to read or write; cause once you have that you can get books and read about stuff and it doesn’t make any difference if you went to a high quality school. I’ve explained that your socio-economic status and how your parents raise you can affect the way you look at education, which in turns affect your chances of living comfortably. They say that making money is the easiest thing nowadays if you can just read or write. Apparently, NFTs, drop shipping and hustle mentality type of shit are available to everyone to make money off of. (As if) What makes me mad is that…

oh min wage is just for kids learning, ok, so you admit that those kids parents are making your business possible to exist by providing them enough support that your wages don't matter. ok fine. now, any adult, my son is 19 who should be subsidizing his existence? at what point would you consider his 40 hours of labor enough that he at least deserves to support himself? how many of your employees could? how many could support a family on one income? I think companies need to actually answer these questions because the answers have changed, where I work now there are hundreds of employees, I bet 5 of them could support a family on their own and I'm not one of them.