Antiwork

A bit of background, grew up in a red-ass small town. My first job was at McDick's when I was 15. Broke my collar bone biking to work, you could visibly see bone protrude through the skin when I would rotate my arm. My manager at the time said, “You can't take aisprin and clock-in?”. For a while I had nothing but abusive jobs. So, naturally all of the /r/antiwork rhetoric I subscribe to and you have my full support. I've always been very good at setting my foot down and telling garbage employers to pound sound. I've had a lot of jobs because of it. Mostly blue collar. ​ Fast-forward to now, 'bout to graduate with my engineering degree. 8 years of sleep deprivation, malnourishment, fight or flight, and paying tuition out of pocket. Started an internship at a company a year ago. I am hourly, I am remote.…

Gonna vent here… So short story, been stuck at this job for some time. Horrible company but I need to buy time while I’m out interviewing. Till then it’s my responsibility to do my job, but everyone is giving me their job because they are super lazy. I told them I was being overwhelmed so to “buy” me some more time they took away my lunch hour so I could focus more on their job. When I got burnt out and decided to look at my phone for 5 mins, since I have no breaks, they yelled at me and told me how overwhelming their job is and how this is a never ending job. In addition, I was told I need to be “perfect” which means zero mistakes at what I do. Yet, the moment I improve in a task they add more to my workload stating that I…

Just closed out of a job application because it made me take a personality test (I didn't know there would be one when I started) and it was over 100 Strongly Agree + Disagree questions long. There was no timer and no indicator that said when the questions would end so they just kept going and going. 140 prompts in and I had enough so I just closed out entirely. They were in multiples of ten so I didn't really notice at first but WHAT IN THE WORLD?? Has this happened to anyone else or do I just have the worst luck? Why do companies think they deserve this much time for free?

This is mostly a lament, but one that has implications for the anti-work movement. There are ample attorneys out there who represent corporations in a multitude of lawsuit types. But as workers trying to get what little rights we have respected, it is an absolute struggle to find attorneys that want to take on our side of the fight. There's far less money in it, so it's rarely chosen. It's frustrating and depressing, and I'm sure the pro-labor attorneys out there feel the same from their end. The prospect of representing ourselves seems as foolish as it is daunting. But I wish it wasn't so. I've got some violated rights that need defending, and I'm sure you do too.

I’ve seen a lot of posts lately about companies getting people to return to the office and implying that working from home means you’re lazy. Working from home is one of the few good things to happen during the pandemic. As a single mom, it’s allowed me to be able to move to an affordable rural area far from family without having to worry about childcare. Pre-covid I was working a dead end job for $13 an hour and driving 2 hours a day every weekend so my mom, who lived a half hour away, could watch my daughter. I also barely got to take my daughter places because I had to work all weekend to make up for only being able to work while she was at school during the week. I only had a babysitter on the weekends. All of this for an apartment I couldn’t afford. I’m…

I’ve been working at a tax office since 2020 and holy shit. My boss jumps the gun often and there are large portions of the year where I sit around doing nothing. My boss acts like it’s my fault if he walks in on me doing nothing during these months, acting like tax season doesn’t last only around 4 months. The previous two tax seasons have been extended, sure, but it’s looking like this one won’t be. My coworkers treat me like garbage, leaving my desk in complete disarray and getting upset when I ask them for help with something. Today, I broke. I made a mess on the floor with a coworker in the room. They watched me (mostly) clean it up and didn’t bother to help or offer help, and after I left, my other coworker texted me asking why I never let anyone else know about the…