Antiwork

Title, basically. I work in a tiny business of 2 people. The boss and me. When a day looks like it's going to be slow based on phone activity, he doesn't come in. I'm left to man the fort. On a medium day this is fine, I like to self direct and not worry about assessment by a superior. On a truly slow day though? I might spend 7 hours without seeing another person, without a single actual task to complete. Just meandering around in circles trying to find something to organize, or else sitting on my ass looking at the same 150 posts on Reddit on loop all day. Sometimes this triggers a sensation of apathy and boredom so powerful in me that it suddenly overwhelms me. I feel a tiny black hole open and collapse in my abdomen and briefly can't imagine doing anything other than crying, before…

Okay, so I work retail. While I have moved up enough to make enough money to pay the bills, I'm really getting tired of it all. Retail companies especially lowballing raises, customers are jerks, work life balance sucks. However, I'm not a college grad, and I really don't think college would be for me. I see places online advertising training programs here and there, but are they legit? Has anyone tried them and gotten decent work from them? Also, is there some sort of legit testing to figure out what kind of work a person would be good at? If anyone has info to share, I'd be really appreciative.

My wife has been working for Maverick Country Stores (Gas Station) for the past 3-4 years. She has always been in the bakery but the Bakery manager was awful and she just ended up doing her job all the time. They finally got rid of that Manager and put my wife in the position. It has been nothing but bullshit. She is the best and hardest worker they have in that entire store but they keep on finding reasons to try and push her out. They hire dipshit people whithout her input and then blame her for their bad work when she never would have approved the hire cause its obvious this lazy dumbass isnt going to keep up. Its so frustrating and stupid that they would put her in that position just to shit all over her, blame everything on her and then force her out when all the…

Hey, I’m new here, and fascinated by the idea of being anti-work. I just want to know how that would- well, work, for lack of a better term. Like how would society function without work? How would we as people find new ways to occupy ourselves and generate revenue? I’m not entirely against the concept, overworking in our society is a real issue, but I just don’t understand

Had one of the weirdest experiences ever with an 'interview' this week & figured you'd love to see how the job market is. First off, talked 2 weeks ago (Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday) & they said “let's talk Friday 10:00AM” then once Friday came they missed the interview & they then said “let's talk next Friday at 10:00 AM”. That already was the only red flag I needed. Then next Friday comes around & they again miss the 10:00 AM interview. I'm done with the organization but gave a polite “go fuck yourself” in a follow up message but in a professional way. Then they get back to me, I say, let's talk Wednesday at 3:00 PM, on my terms, & they immediately call me. At this point I just want to fuck with them more. What I got next, will always be, my top worst 'interview' ever. It's a…

I just found out about chair rent (from a banner at a Walmart hair salon advertising “$100 Chair Rent!!!”) and I’m very curious how this works. From my brief understanding barbers have to PAY the salon that they’re working at, according to Google, anywhere between $100 – $250 a week for the privilege of using the salons chair. Am I understanding this correctly?

By way of context; I work part time at a local restaurant to help finance my life while I study. I'd say about 60 employees in total work there. A lot of main staff members have resigned recently to move on to other jobs. Now I'm not in the loop on all the specifics behind the scenes, but it's kind of obvious that management has been struggling to make ends meet lately due to being forced to close because of the pandemic as well as a lot of experienced employees leaving. Pretty much everyone within the company makes minimum wage or close to it. Here's a loose – the original message was full of grammatical errors that I've tried to fix – but accurate translation of the message the owner of the restaurant shared with our staff today: “Just to inform everyone; this is what a new black cap for…

I accepted a job and signed an offer letter on Dec. 10 2021 with a different company that offered me better compensation and benefits. The expected start date was Jan. 24th 2022. Due to a technical/clerical error my start date was pushed back to Feb. 22nd 2022. I received a call that I wouldn't be able to start then and the next available date to start would be April 4th 2022. I left a job that I had to accept this other one and now my finances are taking a hit due to incompetence on the companies end. Is there anything I can do to hold them accountable for the lost wages? I live in Texas.