Antiwork

I always see posts here complaining about their living situation. The money they are paid, the cost of everything, hell I'm even in the same situation. it's terrible that people are living in these conditions in first world countries. They always round off their complaints with how capitalism is a trap. Capitalism is not the problem. Capitalism to explain simply just means you get paid an agreed upon rate for work that you do and it's run privately rather than by the state. How that rate is defined is supply demand and other factors etc. The problem isn't the structure of capitalism, the problem is greedy people exploiting and cheating other people out of fair pay. This part is the source of the problem. I would much rather continue to live in a capitalist society than the alternatives. It has been proven, throughout history that alternatives (like a communist society)…

I want to unionize my workplace. I have very little idea how but I would have thought getting an already working union org on board would get the job done. Who actually gives a shit as a union? I am afraid we all sign up for something that ends up being bribed by the employer.

One of the worst thing I hate about being in a job is that for some some shitty reasons someone will tend to call always and act like we had done some mistakes by taking leaves…anybody else relates..

I saw this film again recently and I realize how much it annoys me in fact, what is the purpose of this film? What is the message sent to the spectators if not to be servile and social slaves who do whatever they are told? Under any conditions and all that to get a job.

Background/Context: I live in England, UK. 25F. Lemme start off by saying how much I love this community and everything it stands for. Onto the main post. I currently work in the marketing department of a billion dollar US company, in their UK office. I've been here since May 2021 and for the first few months we were completely remote. I was hoping we would stay remote like some other companies I have seen. However, as of last autumn, we're all being dragged back into the office as per our contract. I am contracted to be in the office 2 days per week. However, my commute is 3 hours each way – so on two days a week, I'm currently travelling for 6 hours a day. It's killing me. I just got an ADHD diagnosis, and was told by the psychiatrist that I almost certainly have autism too (awaiting referral),…

Hi all, Been a lurker on this thread for a long time, I've had some great jobs and shitty jobs mostly in IT for various reasons. I've arrived at the conclusion that if I was to continue the way I was I'd just be bouncing around at the bottom level for the rest of my life. I've decided to change that, currently I'm retaking Math from school and had the idea of attending university for computer science as I work in IT anyway. However I've seen more than a few people on this thread comment that they taught themselves coding and still landed good jobs, would you recommend the self taught route or going to Uni? Baring in mind I'd much rather not fork out 15-20k plus for a degree that may not even be useful compared to self taught resources/certifications…

This is the most demoralising thing I have ever had to do, I have a degree in cyber security and I can program in three different languages, I know how to write a database and a website, and I'm familiar with both Linux and windows. I have genuinely lost count of the number of applications I have sent out, it feels like each one is just chipping away at me but if I don't do it enough I loose universal credit literally my only revenue stream (£257 a month btw) it all fucking sucks.