Antiwork

I think the vast majority of retail work does not need to be done by human beings at all. Spare the terrible customers and managers. Now, of course, I’ve been fortunate enough to barely scratch the surface of working retail first-hand (two months of work-study), so maybe there’s something I’m missing. I think the idea of keeping the jobs around for people who supposedly can’t do anything else is pretty crappy, as the government and society need to be pressured to adjust to keeping such people afloat and not bored. You could have robots that stock the shelves, a specific time that the automatic doors no longer let anyone in (or just have stores be 24-hour), all self-checkout(and change the dumb thing about alcohol not being self-checkout eligible and add ID scanners (I’d also argue against strict drinking age enforcement, but that’s another discussion)), and robots that scrub the bathroom…

If their jobs can be done remotely it means it can be done by anyone in the world. Wont they then risk losing jobs to countries where they have cheaper labour?

All the jobs I’ve been applying to are 8-6. Is the 9-5 dead? Edit: Thank you guys so much! I am switching careers and know I’m a little naïve so I want to make sure I don’t jump into a job that will take advantage of me, seems all good here!

I work in retail. We get 1hr unpaid breaks for every 7 hours worked and are entitled to 15 minute paid breaks. My manager almost never gives people their paid breaks, instead letting the employee ask for it and hope they’ll be allowed to if it’s not too busy or close to their shift end or whatever. Is this legal? I live in MI.

Okay so a lot has been going on in my (22F) life recently. To give a little bit of context about the stress I'm under right now, my dad was diagnosed with cancer back in December and is currently going through some pretty brutal treatment, already difficult enough to deal with. My parents are separated and I live with my mum so I actually haven't seen my dad since going through treatment but I've been in contact with him very frequently and checking in with him. Mum has now become very unwell with severe migraines that are actually causing her to get very confused and lose her memory, which I'm terrified about. She's been in and out of hospital about 3 times now in the past 2 weeks, they just gave her some strong pain killers and told her to rest. This then leaves me to look after everyone at…

Warning: Long Post: I am posting this because I saw another thread on here about someone living in this capitalist hellscape who is mentally ill and being dragged down by feeling like everything is hopeless. It got me thinking about my own situation and feeling very similarly. I feel like I am drowning slowly. I also struggle with depression, but I am also autistic. I worked 30-40 jobs each between 1-3 months over a 4-5 year period before the number of psychiatric hospitalisations, firings, and all the issues I had got them to really look at my case and was able to finally get me a proper diagnosis and eventually getting on disability. I live in the US. Disability has some of positives, and a lot of drawbacks. The positives are that I have a passive income that is reliable. I also get medical/dental/vision with some caveats, low-to-no copays with…