Antiwork

I simply can't. I've tried for so long. I've tried to apply for full time jobs for one year and I've only been humiliated, demoralized, left even more lost and confused around career indecision and paralysis, and now I simply can't apply for any more. You might not understand, but it's so bad it's like an instant repulsion to the act of looking at another bullshit stupid job application that asks for an entire soul's worth of experience and pays crap. And then the tedious grind of applications, the terrible monotony, pointlessness, and then being ghosted or left a “we have decided not to proceed…” automated email. I got baited into my current part time job but turns out it sucks because work is not guaranteed and I won't even have any shifts until the end of this month. So I need to look for another part time job before…

So of course I applied. Area median income in my specific neighborhood in my city is $85,000, and if you make 70% of that ($59,500) or less as a single filer, then you are qualified. My city has passed laws sort of recently requiring all these new luxury apartment buildings to have a certain % of units be affordable units, so I applied to all of the lotteries to try and get one. This way I’ll actually be able to finally afford a 1 bedroom and not have to live in squalor or with roommates! Everyone please wish me luck! This system needs to change, it’s unsustainable long term and the homeless population in my city is also skyrocketing with no plan to tackle it

I keep hearing people talk about and reading articles about inflation and how companies have no choice but to raise prices to keep up with the rising cost of material and this so-called labor shortage. Then we're told that these same companies are reporting record profits. Why do we keep blaming rising prices on every single other factor out there besides the obvious? Why is no one (aside from the anti-work community) talking about the fact that companies are choosing to raise their prices? Is everyone just willfully ignorant or is this a case of 'if we say something else enough, they'll believe us despite the evidence?'

So yeah. I am a speech-language pathologist for a home healthcare company in the southeast. I drive around all day and help people talk and eat and try to laugh, it’s great. I have been working for this company for about a year, after I was working in a nursing home for a few. I started part-time with great pay, and then they asked me to come on full time. I got paid salary direct deposit, and the pay was even better! On Friday they called me in for my yearly evaluation. I thanked my manager saying that I love this job and the people that I worked with. They said I would be getting a raise! Then this Monday I get an email. They said that they needed to do another “evaluation”. As soon as I came in they told me that they were overpaying me. My higher up…