Antiwork

I was talking to a friend last night about empathy, socialism, Capitolism, homelessness and starvation, the over abundance and intentional withholding of food and shelter, and it kept getting back to the root of “they are just lazy” or “if they wernt lazy they wouldn't be in this situation (which I find wholly false)… but in the end I just don't understand why it ends at thier responsibility for being subjectively lazy??? All I hear when people make this argument is that “lazy” people don't deserve to live. But if this is how so many feel, why is it no ones willing to come out and say it? And if it's not how everyone feels, why do we use it as an excuse not to share with and help others?

Was working as a logisticsplanner/worker at a windmillcompany where I was tasked to reorganize metalrings that weighed about 5000-20000 kilograms (11000 pounds- 45000 pounds) per piece. The weight difference is because of size, the varied from 1 meter in diameter to 6 meters in diameter (3 feet- 16 feet) My task was to make sure they were easy for anyone to pick them up and move them into the factory. So said and done I start my measuring in up and planning out in on paper. Which I do in a forklift out by the grounds. Sitting there for a couple of hours making strategies and drawing it out, my boss walks by. Just looks and doesn't say anything. Just before leaving for the day he calls me in to the office. In there he says that since I'm just sitting there doing nothing I am risking that they would…

I’m a month from graduating and have started applying for jobs, but most of them require a year of experience. It’s extremely frustrating that I have been working so hard in school only to be told I need a year of experience before even being considered.

Just got my annual review on Friday. I got a 1.8/5. My boss said y”ou know those 4 and 5 stars are impossible to obtain so you really received 1.8/3.” No cost of living raise, no opportunity to negotiate for a higher raise. My work is constantly complaining about the cost of everything going up, yet refuses to compensate us for that same problem.

Another poster shared his story as to what someone said to them because they had a gig job on weekends and what was said to him when they found out. This took me back to last year. I left my job as a call center Supervisor at the end of March 2021. I was there 10 years but after a merger, things changed… for the worse. Any case, the pandemic happens and around April 2020, several of people who reported to me were in contact with someone that tested positive for COVID. This was a no go since my oldest has Chronic Lung Disease (born with it) and my spouse has an auto immune disease (didnt matter, I ended up getting covid August 2021). I told them I was uncomfortable due to this and went home (left the office). After fighting they finally permitted work at home. AFTER docking me…

​ My current assignment ends next quarter, applied for the job I was doing before. Only difference now is I am a higher pay bracket.

I have recently started working with a new department and have heard that most of them wake up at 4am and stop working at midnight, skip lunch, work on weekends and do not take PTO or take it and work throughout. I was shocked and grateful that I am not on their team but I asked a few of them why they do it. They told me in many ways, “well yeah we work a lot but we make so much/a lot of money!” I found out that they make $80,000/year on average…. yes that is an okay amount but for dedicating your entire life and losing sleep/free time it is fucking pennies.

My husband is riddled with bad luck, but one thing about him is that when someone wrongs him, the karma comes back hard. (Example: A police officer gave him a speeding ticket and was arrested one week before his traffic court date causing his case to be thrown out.) He was fired just a few days before Christmas and this was when I was out of a job as well. I had planned to buy him presents literally the day he got fired but quickly changed my mind when he came home from work 6 hours early. This was really the nail on the coffin of a miserable 6 months where my husband was promised commission pay, but his manager always found the smallest reasons to put it off for an additional month. Then once this manager finally confirmed he would get commission, he was fired only 3 days after.…