Antiwork

Welcome to capitalism, where every job setting is a human factory and people are earning crumbs whilst the rich thrive 🥰🥰

I'm gunna say some shit that no one likes here. Small towns have a lot of job opportunity with great wages (WFH still going strong in many fields too) and incredibly cheap housing. The idea that you must live in a large city is sold to you by billionaire companies making money off of the agglomerative properties of economic centers like NYC or LA. They sell you merchandise produced and managed by minimum wage workers overseas (who get paid less than we do, and we don't even get access to those jobs). They rent to you property that could be bought with a mortgage for hundreds or thousands less and use that money to buy the rest of the property available so you can't have generational wealth to pass to your kids. And every time we come to address these problems, our local government doesn't want to dissuade them from…

I am 19 and recently got my first job. My first day working there I am scheduled for an 11 hour shift. I am very worried about it and can already tell it will be exhausting. I am shocked they made my very first shift (I haven't even been trained yet) be 11 hours long. If I am scheduled for more 11 hour shifts in the future I will probably need to ask that I stop being scheduled for so long.

It's wild to me how it has not been normalized to simply say “because I want to make money” as a legit response to “why do you want to work here?”. But then it's because if a company knows your only motivation is money, then they can't exploit you under the guise of “well if you are truly passionate about this job you will put the extra hours”. A person who is simply interested in a time for money exchange cannot be exploited. So because of this, they dumbass hustle culture was created where simply wanting to make a living is apparently not enough for a company to hire you.

Office manager and head of programming have been hinting that I will probably be promoted to head of marketing for a while. They call me in for a meeting where we will discuss my new responsibilities. The meeting went on for about 45min and they loved explaining all the new tasks I will be in charge of. The meeting ends and they slowly start to get back to work. I sort of paused for a second, waiting for them to say what will be my raise, but of course that was not discussed. So I ask directly. Immediately both of them laugh out loud and say: “Money money money, all employees think about is money, why can't you understand that we are about pushing boundaries over here. Achieving new things in Software Development yada yada yada”. I wait a few seconds because I didn't think they were serious…….. Then from…

My store specifically has not moved in that direction, but last time I heard, over 100 stores across the country are moving to vote. No one beyond your store manager (if you’re lucky) listen to anything you have to say. Starbucks says that they make decisions with partners in mind. But even in several meetings baristas (like myself) had with district managers or higher ups, it was all surface level support. Several times throughout the pandemic, as well as before, decisions were made against most baristas voiced wishes/concerns. Our district manager would ask us how they can make the job more enjoyable for us or manageable, listen to each of us, then do nothing to help. I have worked for them for almost 7 years. I loved working here. It genuinely made me happy and I really enjoyed the people I met and the work I was doing. It helped…