Antiwork

I'm an English teacher, specifically an English as a Foreign Language teacher, and I've been working from home for almost 2 years. For context: I don't really have control over my schedule, that's all handled by administration, and they assign my groups every 5 weeks (a course's duration) and man, last course schedule was really good, I had a nice long break between classes and I was earning well because one of the groups is a training course for a company we work with, the rest are regular students, I had to wake up earlier but it was worth it, I get paid double. I explicitly told my coordinator that the schedule was awesome! By next course, I got reassigned, first I don't have my training group anymore (and no, they never tell us why we are reassigned nor give us any warning) and the thing is, my old schedule…

I think most of us agree, locking basic human necessities behind wages is an issue. Even the more centric people here think that work should give everyone a “livable wage.” I think it’s great to focus on making work better, but this isn’t work reform. It is anti work. Making work sustainable, fair, and more are reasonable and admirable goals, but I don’t think that is the end focus. UBI (Universal Basic Income) is an idea I truly like. It will be quite hard for something this progressive to become the norm, but giving everyone regardless of employment status a means to live is probably the best we can hope for. At least in America, I know there is enough money for every citizen to be well fed, housed, and more if the top 1% didn’t hoard the vast majority of wealth. I believe a UBI is possible, and while…

No healthy functioning human brain has ever woken up with a drive to work in an office. No child when asked what they want to be when they grow up has genuinely and honestly replied as Office Worker or Middle Management. No regular, sane person wants that life. It's a sociopathic demon-idea thought up by wealthy buttholes who enjoy making money in the most sadistic but legal way possible. But we're all still more or less okay with it. And for whatever reason, we keep finding ways to continue it and shape the concept. We don't have to. There's no outside entity forcing us to. It's understandable in the sense for those with no way else, but as a whole it's a bunk motion. It's stagnant and sad. A bunch of huge, cheaply made, boring looking buildings cluttering the world, and all in the name of making a buck for…

I explain: I have had a minimum wage work as a waiter for years, quite hard conditions and I gave a lot of myself at the time (basically saying yes to every change in the schedule, doing extra hours for free to prove my engagement, tips confiscated by the boss etc.) and at that time I used to awnser to the question “What do you do” by saying “I work as a waiter BUT it is just for now, it's not what I want to do all my life etc.” I was ashamed of my job kind of. Then I was fed up and I quit, a bit before covid, and I became unemployed (but thanks to the social protection in Europe and I manage to survive comfortably I would say(covid striked so no bars no restaurants=no job opportunities), and I that time I would answer the question by saying:…

Like seriously some of you are just as insensitive, naive to the struggles of the working poor, and privileged as the billionaire CEOs “we” claim to hate. I posted on this sub once before when I was working 60 hour manual labor weeks at a hospital and was seriously thinking about killing myself because the stress and toll on my body was just that much. I’ve since quit that job but when I posted on here, the response I got was “go to college.” Motherfucker I’M POOR. I grew up in a poor family. A lot of people on this sub don’t realize that the opportunities that were always available to them aren’t available to those of lower social class. And other times, I’ll browse this sub looking for other people who are in a similar situation to the one I was in because maybe I can give some advice,…

Before, when we worked in the office, coworkers and supervisors would continually stop by to chat about what they're up to — both professionally and personally. Additionally, we would have an all staff meeting every other week where the professional would eventually pivot into the personal. They told us the frequency of these meetings were important because they didn't want the departments to feel siloed. It's important that everyone knows what everyone is up to, they said. When we first began working from home we had the same amount of meetings. But then they started to decrease. The all staff meeting is now just every other month — despite the fact that we're more siloed than ever. My theory: It's because you can't have side conversations in Zoom. Our meetings would always begin with the director speaking to us as a group and eventually derail into everyone having separate conversations…

I can’t afford therapy that works for me right now and I lost my sister to a very traumatic death while I was working on a business trip out of state. Right before she passed away, I got promoted to a higher level position where I agreed to take on an account that has a lot of demands. It’s an unusual customer that we negotiated shit terms and conditions on a long term agreement and now whoever has the account is typically miserable. Now I’ve worked tirelessly to clean up this account while keeping up with the customer’s demands and I feel like can’t handle it anymore. I have about 3-4 small mental breakdowns throughout the week (luckily WFH) and I sense that I’m on the brink of huge mental breakdown. I feel like I can’t do anything beneficial to heal while I have work constantly hanging over my head.…