Antiwork

Since my coworker left for maternity leave, I‘ve been taking over her responsibilities (hers were higher than mine). This has been going on for more than half a year and it‘s quite exhausting. I‘ve asked my boss for a raise, because I‘ve been payed the same amount since I entered this job two years ago. He agreed, since my responsibilities have doubled and I also had to train a new employee that’s supposed to help our team during my coworkers maternity leave. He brought my request to HR and our COO. They were enraged, that I dared to ask for a raise and that my job is even overpaid as it is now. They ripped my boss a new one for wasting their time. According to them, I‘m way too young (23) and have too little work experience (2 years) to receive a raise. It’s not even about the money,…

Look… I've been working at my call center job for well over 5 years. And I do mean well over. I fucking hate it but I'm really good at it. It's boring. It's annoying. And it's making me miserable. Which is why I decided to finish my degree at the beginning of the pandemic. I actually only have about 2-3 semesters left. The company isn't so bad. The work is mindless enough and they work with my course schedule. And the pay, I thought, was adequate. Plus tenure so nice bit of vacation time. Oh and health insurance is nice and so is remote work So I wanted to stick it out. At first I thought I'd try and move to corporate in a department for my field. Then I was like fuck this company, I'll stay until I graduate. As I get more and more depressed and fed up,…

Long time lurker and appreciator of this thread and all of the sentiments. I finally have my own story and I need some advice. I'm a sole social worker in a multi-disciplinary team of non-mental health professionals at a post secondary institution. I'm responsible for the mental health and wellbeing of approximately 1200 young adults. My caseload grows and grows with no limits on when I can say no, what my scope should be, and no one to consult with due to confidentiality. For years, I've been working on proposals for senior admin to hire an additional role. The risks of only one person are endless- burnout, vicarious trauma, liability, if I'm away, there's no backup plan… Etc. I've been interviewed to tell vulnerable stories about my own mental health and how this role has impacted me in order to bolster the case. After a week of working 15-hour days…

I'll say it again: “Sex Work is Work” is a terrible take that ignores the colonial and imperalist nature of the sex trade. Sex trade is at its core hierarchical, classist and racist, with an inescapable connection to trafficing: 90% of the women and children in the sex trade in the US is bipoc and poor, and most of them are in the trade out of economic desperation and/or being forced, not of choice. To quote the historian Gerda Lerner: “The exchange of women was the first form of trade, making them seen as less than human. This division is the beginning of women's subordination at the hands of men.” With colonization came seing women's bodies as an open resource. In order to conquer the land, colonizers had to conquer the women. This is a model that has been replicated all over the world. Imperialism, colonialism and the sex trade…