Antiwork

I’m in school to be and RD and my advisor is pushing me to go do volunteer work. I have to get into the internship program and they not only look at grades, but leadership roles and volunteer work. The biggest thing is I hate volunteer work. I never volunteer because I don’t want to work and not be paid. I am going to be doing stuff this summer and I am literally dreading it.

This is absolutely insane. A small (and shrinking) group of comically evil people hold all of the power over our lives. They won’t give it up. They exploit and oppress and abuse, they steal and cheat and lie. And when we catch them? They go straight back to it with no interruption. The system is built to return them to top of the pillar. Every victory we achieve for the laborer is theatre. One step forward, five steps back. So are we all destined to be slaves?! Is oppression our natural state? Or are we coming soon to the revelation that our options are resistance or subjugation. Think of the future: a utopia for the worker, where life, personage, love and health are the priority. Where love and acceptance have replaced bigotry, oppression and exploitation. And looking on this utopia ask yourself: did we achieve this peacefully? Did the oppressors…

I am flabbergasted by the posts I see here of people's bosses texting them to cover a shift or be generally shitty. I don't actually think my boss has my number. Because this is work and not a fucking frat, we message on slack. He's my boss, not a “buddy”. If I set slack to say I'm away from my desk/office, I won't get any messages until the start of my next shift. my boss does the same. Nobody is expected to answer their phones when it isn't their shift. Normalize more professional lines of communication with your employees. Either email them, slack them, in an emergency, call them on their listed business number. We start to see these posts of bosses excoriating their employees about covering a shift and we're starting to make that our new normal. That is not normal, do not let it become normal. If you're…