Antiwork

When Im on duty im responsible for evething that happens in the buliding. The YMCA is non- profit. They dont have money to.pay us alot. Evey shift we deal with unruly kids and adults who who think we are their punching bags. I had a member threaten me because I told them its closing time. We only make $10.00 an hour. I love the YMCA we serve our comminities and offer a place for people to go and feel safe. Often at the expence of our own safety. I wish the people in this group would appreciate that not all bosees are bad and people do want to do a good job and help others.

Oh God what an opportunity! I hope I get my application in on time!!! But am I “motivated” enough?! My name is ——-. I am a psychologist at the —— at the University of ——. I’m writing to share a (non-practicum) [for those of you not in the field this means you can’t even use it for clinical hours required for your degree so it’s literally just for the amazing training that this unpaid labor offers] training opportunity. My hope is that you could forward this message to your current students. Ideally, this would be a good fit for students who have not yet started a practicum placement, but all applicants are welcome! We are currently accepting applications for the 2022-2023 school year. Please see below for information about the opportunity: The——- at the University of—— is seeking several motivated graduate students for part-time, unpaid clinical assistantships with a start…

I'm currently quite sick. I asked to go home an hour and a half early (my coworker would cover my shift, he was fine with it and it wouldn't affect the workflow since he literally just sit for the rest of the shift) and was told, while having chest pains and a ton of difficulty breathing (it gets bad every year when the weather changes, isn't c-19), that I need to “tough it out”. I've wanted to be switched to day shift for 3 months now because night shift is honestly taking a toll on my life. I'm 19. I'm dead tired all the time. I have no outside life. I can't do anything. The benefits here are horrible. And I dont think I could last another 2 weeks. I most likely have another job lined up but haven't gotten the call just yet. I have enough money to last…

For people who are desperately looking for alternatives to the grind, it is entirely possible to live a life without a job, or with a part-time or small job, and work much less than you do now. This life will just be different and in some ways harder than your life now. Instead of trying to make more, you try to need less. Here's a rough sketch. Scrimp and save and sacrifice for a few years at whatever the best job is you can get. Get roomates/housemates. Eat rice, beans, vegetables, and few expensive things. No unnecessary spending. However long this takes, save up around 10-15k, find a place with few building or zoning regulations (mostly rural), buy an acre or two of “shitty” land. Probably wanna stick to the Southeast if you don't want to fight harsh winters. Put up a yurt. Heat with firewood. Plant some fast growing…

I work for an outsourcing housekeeping company in NYC. They pay minimum wage so obviously we don’t have the best people working here. Sometimes people are late for work or do a no-call-no-show and it makes more extra work for people or the company has to run around looking for a last minute replacement. To stay on top of things, they’ve created an app that tells them how long it takes each employee to get to work. Employees have to “check in” on the app before they leave their house so the company knows that they are going to be to work on time. If employees don’t “check in” before the time it takes to get to work the app gives employees a message that our shift has been cancelled and they’re find a replacement. (If your commute is 30 minutes you need to check in 30 minutes before your…

Backstory: I used to do technical support for a mortgage startup. Typical grind culture, “unlimited PTO” but taking it made you a villain, beers at work but staying all night, mid-20s COO with a Jaguar, the works. One day after tons of prep work, they got way less VC funding than the previous round, and they orchestrated a series of manipulations and lies to cut off employee communication and then laid off 42 employees (out of 106) in a surprise 9am Teams call after falsely closing the office for the day. I was one of three IT employees and they cut me off from my accounts while I was trying to figure out why Slack was down (they'd shut it down intentionally). 5 months later… Today I got a call intended for my previous manager. It appears that their Zoom account – which they didn't need, didn't set up as…

I joined this sub a while back and have sung its praises to others and appreciate the solidarity and perspectives expressed herein – BUT – I’ve recently stumbled into a dream situation for myself so I haven’t had much to post or discuss about “our” collective struggles. The short version is I lived like so many of us for a long while – woefully underpaid and always under stress about money. Finally, as I entered my 40’s I got a pay bump big enough to allow me to at least live stress free. Not jet-skis and hookers, just auto-draft bill pay with no fear that the water won’t get paid. So that was the situation for a bit, COVID came and we all went home where productivity actually increased for my division and all was well enough. They made clear there was no plan that the WFH would change, we’d…