Antiwork

A lot of people here seem to shot about raising the minimum wage, and I agree, to a degree. I am against raising it on a federal level though and if anything lowering it on a federal level (I’ll explain later. If we raise the whole thing up from the bottom it’s not going to fix our problems. I think we need to look at the state and local levels and push for change there. We are a large country a livable (or better off, comfortable) wage is going to vary between states and within them, between cities, towns, and counties. Very large cities (SF, philly, NYC) have a much hire cost of living than a farm town out in the middle of nowhere so a $20 MW (I’ll use this as minimum wage to safe space) ($20 is just used as an example because it’s a nice round number)…

I’m sitting here dreading my return to work and I’m so pissed. Anytime I try to tell anyone about it, they either tell me I’m causing my own problem or that I should be thankful for a job that has given me 2 months paid paternity. I have 2 bachelors degrees (Communications and Spanish) and I’m halfway through a masters program (strategic comm and media) and all I want is a job that isn’t frontline retail. There’s nothing wrong with retail but it’s so emotionally draining on me. I can’t stand going day in and day out babysitting Karena and Kens acting like tantrum throwing babies in public and simultaneously dealing with the mistreatment dealt by management and every other department that loves to just shit on retail. But even in this job market no one will give me a chance. Meanwhile, the longer I stay at this retail job,…

I work for a company that bills itself as very employee-oriented. It has sold itself that way since it’s inception. Last year one of our offices and most of that office’s employees were evacuated due to a forest fire. Some of my coworkers neighbourhoods were decimated. Nobody received any additional time off for the evacuation. The company made remarks at staff meetings about being “strong” and that everybody was “in their thoughts.” It rang so hollow in the face of what everybody experienced. These people almost lost everything. They were terrified and driven from their homes. And this was as Good Company. They give no f*cks about us.

Idk, it sounds so obvious because money is almost the only reason one wants to get a job, but oftentimes they hide it til the end.

I have been a casual for about 4 months for a company, they wanted me to get a higher license (heavy rigid). So I got it, as did my co worker and then started truck driving for them and they continued to pay me a labourer’s wage for 6 weeks. So I told them I won’t be driving trucks until they back paid me and bumped up my pay accordingly. Which came to a head in a meeting today where they agreed to bump me and my co worker and offered a full time position. Thank to anti work for giving me the confidence to challenge the system. Apologies for my poor grammar and punctuation and poor sentence structure.

Since you’ve joined antiwork has anything changed for you? Has life gotten better? Or have you stayed a part of the status quo? Has your ritual just become checking antiwork without actually spending the time productively? May sound harsh, but it’s the truth.