Antiwork

Throwaway account just in case. I was originally hired to work in an insurance office with my own mini office in there. Everything was going well and a couple months after training I started hitting my monthly sale goals. Around end of December I got a call from my manager saying he was thinking about moving me to another office which is about 45 minutes away. He said it was really gonna help me out and there would be a lot more foot traffic there but it’s not really certain yet and not to think about it too much. Towards the middle of February he tells me that he wants me there within a week. Then I find out from one of my colleagues that he actually hired a brand new person and that person said she wanted to be in my location or she wouldn’t take the job so…

Generally, I think working in this capitalistic hellscape is brutal, however, with my weird luck in life, I have found a company that deserves its kudos. Haven't been able to write this, but as I am currently expecting my baby to be born any day now, I've found time during bedrest. TLDR at bottom. General background: I work from home in America for a small “technical content development” company that has always been remotely functioning. We have 12 full-time employees and about 20-30 vendors at any given time. They were hit hard by COVID and a couple of bad employees as I was being hired but still managed to stay afloat and not reduce anyone's pay. My title is a Business Specialist, but really, I do everything from contracting to automation services to invoice and timesheet reconciliation. There are 3 owners of the company and I work directly with them,…

My coworker just quit, and I noticed they're advertising the position online for more than I make rn. I was planning on asking for a raise anyways, waiting for my boss to come back from vacation to do so. Today they came back and coincidentally told me, I was getting a raise! A very small one, still putting me under the rate of the same position being advertised online. When I brought this up, they informed me the new recruit would actually be getting far less than the advertised rate, putting them UNDER my starting rate when i started the job a year ago. Not cool for me or the new hire…

Wheat prices exploded today for russia and Ukraine produce 30% of global wheat supply. Add to that oil prices jump from 90$ zo 110$ in 3 days trending upward. High wheat and transportation prices will show at the grocery bill quite soon.

work =/= labor modeling in economics is generally unreliable economist are generally biased in a way that other sciences tend not to be -economics without full political context is b.s. economics is inherently ill defined economics and economist are typically devoted to a particular state the history of economics is colonial, imperial, and bourgeois modern economics has never changed or reconciled with the above non capitalist economics have their own harmful pro-state biases I'm sure a missed a lot. I'm a woman of trans experience (which if u have any issue w/ that move on please and do something else with your day) and my economic reality and never served by studying an economist. The masses of the Earth are never served by studying economics especially from western academics but honestly anyone in the world of academic economics is probably removed from real world labour and trade so much that…

i want to kill people in power so badly for preying on the goodwill of billions and ruining everyone's life to line their own pockets