Antiwork

99% of the posts here are about the North-American situation Can someone knowledgeable chime in?

I studied for years to be an actor then a director then an artist then a game designer. When i finally finished education i was left with the impossible task of getting a job as an artist in the game’s industry. This brought me to today where i have my first full time job in IT creating forms every day from 8am to 4pm. By all accounts this is a “good job” people are nice and the pay is good, there is just one problem, i hate it. I cannot stand waking up early logging into a laptop and mindlessly creating forms from the morning until the night and that creative spark I have is killing my happiness slowly! I started streaming on twitch as an outlet for me as i had always wanted to be an entertainer, i had just gone down a weird entertainment path that lead me…

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Long and the short of it is summarized in the title, and I don't really know how to handle it (other than what I'm doing, which is the bare minimum….). My role is a mix of communications and operations at a small non-profit. I've been in the role for about a year and my supervisor is growing more and more impossible to work under. First and foremost, she rambles — she talks in circles, repeats the same VERY basic things in every check-in, and provides me with very little helpful feedback or direction. Additionally, she always contradicts herself (yesterday she told me that it would be fine to hold off on sending out an email blast until next week; this morning she called me to ask the progress of the blast????). In working with external partners, I have seen people get confused/ask her to clarify/call her out for being contradictory,…

First, here is a big rant with a question. Afterwards I’ve got a bunch of smaller rants. I work at REDACTED. (got an NDA) I work from home helping callers file phone insurance claims. During the interview process my position was described more as tech support not claims, also during the interview I was told I would start at $16/hour and also get paid per call (Pay per experience) and in the end whatever number was higher would be my pay. After I got hired I learned that it was filing insurance claims for customers which I was upset about but the job market is super competitive here and I needed something to take care of my family so I stayed. On the last week of training they had someone come in and explain the pay per experience. Turns out we get paid $16/hour until after 3 months, then we…

The “end of work” is the stupidest shit I've seen here, fuck YOUR definition of work, it already has a definition and purpose. You'll never end work, especially if you don't want world war. Let's debate actual solutions that can lead to better work environments, less time working, livable wages and better relations on a customer, employee and employer basis. Work to better our society and ways or living, getting rid of the concept of money will not achieve this. The concept of money has been here before you and will be here after you. Capitalism can be limited and made better for all, greed is the major issue there. I could think of and debate hypothetical ways to flip the system from being- business competes with business to get consumer profits to business competes with business to acquire and keep workers. But no one will care to read something…

It seems a lot of bosses have a serious power trip. They give you a raise only to throw it in your face. “I gave you a raise, why not work like it?” Backstory:: received a raise in January ($2) only to be micromanaged by said boss and it throw in my face. I work my ass off so your company can make it to a million and you get to sit on your ass all day?

Real wages are stagnant or falling for the past 5 decades. A typical household of two income earners is barely staying afloat. Not news to anyone here, I'm sure. But many people are missing why our fiat currency is screwing them. There's a very simple reason why the hours we work buy less and less wealth every year. Sure, the costs of Pizza Hut, Netflix, and iPhones stay relatively constant (A mere 8% annual inflation now), but when it comes to buying the REAL things that improve your life and build health and wealth for a family, you're falling behind if you can't make 20-30% more money every year. I'm talking about real estate, education, stocks, and medical care, which take up more than 50% of your budget but are conveniently minimized or ignored by consumer price indices. Across the world, whether you're in the US, Europe, or Africa, central…