Antiwork

Forcing underpaid staff to work under terrible conditions, and not actively seeking to improve an organization's services or products, is terribly abusive. I have seen it happen too many times. I've seen people drop out of the workforce for years at a time because they were so emotionally scarred by their experience. Leadership has an obligation to create the conditions that lead to greater success for everyone involved, not just for oneself. Not paying attention to practical and obvious issues is negligent and should be criminal.

For background, I put in my three weeks notice to my current job a week and a half ago. There’s some time off allotted to us that isn’t paid out when you leave the job, so I put in for a half day off to use just some before I go. This request was denied because it’s “not normal” to take time off after you’ve submitted your notice/resignation. Whatever, can’t wait to leave this job for the better offer I’ve accepted.

Guys, we are most of us all workers here, or people affected by work. If there is a post that divides us, you should be hypercritical. Like saying people who have a little money shouldn't be here, or communists are just pushing their ideology, or whatever: if you're here and you believe in antiwork, that's what's important. Remember that the people in power have, for the most part, been in power for generations. Most of them are not stupid, or if they are, hire people to tell them how not to be. If a post looks like it MIGHT be there to sow doubts about if things are right, or if we should all come together, etc…it probably is there for that reason. Don't let it in your head. Think critically and, as always, organize!

Quickie here. I and several other people work at a restaurant. Recently we have been short for months. Instead of hiring people or giving people overtime to help cover these shifts they make us do two different jobs with no extra pay benefit at all. This is purely so they can save money. However the bosses can afford “pizza parties” and “cheap tote bags” for appreciation instead of appropriately paying people. Literally I’ve seen my fellow coworker struggle doing two shifts at once in one sitting because our bosses don’t want to work themselves or save money from hiring anyone or paying OT. So This morning I called out! Now one of the bosses has to wash pots all day in her pretty little dress! Ha! Play with our money and our time you get to actually do what bosses are supposed to be doing. PAY US ACCORDINGLY!

I think it would be more accurate to call this “antiwork culture” or “antiwork bullshit” because antiwork implies a dislike of work right? However , a lot of the people on here seem to be very hard working but are opposed to domineering, micromanaging bosses and corporations trying to screw them over.

I get hired at new job and after I finish my two week notice at my old job, the new job says they have to decided they have too many employees for this position and let me go. It's a right-to-work state, but how is this not illegal for wasting people's time? How is it that it takes two weeks to find out you hired only one person too many? I found out that the employer was making people work during their 30min lunch while they should be clocked out. There are cameras with audio recording and the employer listened to me telling my coworkers about the state's break laws. This can't be legal!