Antiwork

Anyone in the same sinking boat as me.. I can barely keep my measley $4,000 savings in the bank. Working 44 hour weeks just to put a roof over my head and maybe save a teenie bit.

I was asked to do a continued education course once a week, two hours a week, for 8 weeks outside of my normal work hours. They are compensating me (minimally) to attend this training. A day before the training the instructor sent out an email with a few assignments: Google form to fill in, personality survey, and an article to read. I didn't do any of it because they aren't paying me any extra time for homework. Thoughts? It shouldn't matter, but I work in public education where I'm already expected to do car rider liner, stay for sports and work gates, and all the extra bullshit we do like buying our own supplies, etc. that I'm never compensated for.

Would you like your daughter to be treated like you are treating your employees? Would you like her to be fired for asking for a contract?  If she was presented with a better opportunity and she could still stay for one more month so it was legal for her to go, would you like her boss to force her to leave on that day, so he didn't have to pay her last salary? If your daughter was more sensitive, would you like her boss to put her down and tell her she's replaceable and not good enough? Would you like her boss to change her hours all the time, sometimes without a day's notice so she never can get some real stability? Would you like her to sign her resignation in advance without a date? Would you like her to miss some extra work because her boss brought somebody new just because…

I switched industries recently and didn’t even think about searching if there was a union available. On my first day, all the new starters were sitting through various speakers and presentations including one from the union who we could text for more information (it felt very discreet haha). I didn’t need to text for information and hopped online and signed up right away. It’s just really nice to be part of an industry that first of all, has a union at all, secondly, even offers union representatives the chance to promote new starters, and thirdly, embodies the true r/antiwork beliefs (we are not all lazy unemployed dwellers of our mother’s basements). TL;DR: I joined a union, it was great.

I've switched a few jobs recently and I'm just going to resign soon because income wise jobs just don't make sense. I can sidehustle double the amount of money they pay me per hour without putting up with management. And try as I might nobody is paying more. Like why am I doing this? It's not like the job has any kind of certainty either. They'll just dump me at the next hiccup in the global financial system anyway. What the hell is the point of having a job anymore?

We need to stop working. We need to stop paying our bills. We need to choose to stop participating in this derranged wageslavery. Quit your job and do not even look for another one, just enjoy the pure bliss of not having 80% of your life taken away from you by a powertripping employer using you to get rich. Society will collapse if we keep working.

So I got blindsided today by my (now former) employer when they fired me. They said that a recent (rather scathing) Glassdoor review “sounded like my writing,” and they said it violated their social media policy (even though Glassdoor reviews are anonymous). The bigger kicker is they threatened to sue me for defamation if the review isn't taken down! So on top of now being unemployed, I have to worry about the costs associated with defending myself if they take me to court (I don't expect the lawsuit to actually go anywhere, but I still have to hire a lawyer to represent me). I've been a really good employee for almost 2 years (and I have the performance reviews to prove it). Something tells me they were looking for a reason to get rid of me because it's a legit flimsy reason to terminate. The company has been going down…