Antiwork

People are angry at billionaires when they are ignoring the real enemy. Fellow workers. Fellow workers are everything wrong with the system. Left should hate right and right should hate left. But Don't Look Up!

All I see on this forum is people complaining about not making a living wage for work that for all intents and purposes is meant to be starting positions entering the work force. The resources you can extract from the market is directly related to the value you provide to it. If you polish yourself and become a master of your craft whatever it may be people will find value in it and compensate you accordingly. If you’re not getting what you want out of life because you think you should make 6 figures for working a drive thru maybe it’s your sense of entitlement and not the horrible system working against you, I’m an older millennial and when I was growing up these jobs you bitch about getting screwed over in were jobs for teenagers that you grow out of. Learn a skill and master a craft anybody can…

o I was out sick one day, pre-covid age, and my boss called me and demanded I go to work. I objected but he told me I was easily replaceable and I was lucky to have the job in the first place. I had a horrible stomach ache all through the drive there. When I got to work my boss had his usual disrespectful attitude and was berating me on how I was being weak and soft. Finally, I had enough so I leaned over and threw up all over him and his desk. Everyone else in the office pointed and laughed at him and they all took turns throwing up on him as well. Then upper management came in and congratulated me for sticking up to him and he was promptly fired on the spot.

Busted ass 50+ hrs like a champion, sacrificing much of myself at a new job for 8 months or so, saving the company measurable hours of labor via my own methods and ideas, having been well-skilled with years of experience in the wider arena of work we accomplish. Simply put, the established methods could be improved upon and I carried out the work to the best of my abilities. Around the holidays I was approached about changing to a salaried pay structure which yearly was about even with my projected income at the current hourly rate + the overtime I’d been working due to their needs. The yearly salary offered would equate to about a $6/hr+ raise in hourly pay if calculated working 40 hours a week. So naturally I instead asked for a raise of $2 in hourly pay, as a (fair?) compromise thinking it to be wholly agreeable…