Antiwork

Here's the picture. I'm 26 now and have been working since I was 19. I've been a chef the whole time and long story short it's a fucking grueling, unforgiving job for many reasons and I've had enough. My motivation is all but gone and I even called in sick today because I just couldn't be bothered to go in. For years I had the perfect work ethic. I was always first in and last to leave and would often work all day without a break, however my view on work and life has changed dramatically and I want to take a decent chunk of time away from the grind of work life. I earn £28,000 before tax, have about £15k in savings and a flat which costs me about £800 a month which I can leave in July at the earliest. I love my flat but I know living…

Thoughts or stories on companies deliberately delaying hiring employees that have passed the hiring process, wasting their time to get an upper hand in negotiations or to look for better candidates with cheaper compensation.

Humans do not need to work. All of the labor is handled by robots and AI. People can live comfortable lives indulging in luxury and leisure whenever they want. All of this is paid for by the profits generated by corporations and human workers are not being exploited. It's the ideal society based on the values of Antiwork. Of course there's the whole plot line about the corporation lying about the earth not being destroyed and still salvageable, but honestly why would they even go back? Going back to Earth means essentially people will be forced to work again. Which would be terrible. What do you guys think?

My friend has written a book about organising at work, which I'm sure will be of interest to people here. I guess you might ask: “if you're anti-work, why would you want to organise at work?” To me, the answer is that, in order to abolish work, we have to build power, and one of the key places we can organise to build that power and to practice wielding that power, is in the workplace. It's in Pluto's Autumn catalogue and is coming out in October: https://d24gssfg51q0py.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/15153124/Catalogue-Autumn-2022-Web-Version-lower-res.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1U4WVPI5B4v2SSYsHD354XCXeyBueYWATVzdYCTsAO_AYxD79Zi8ZA0ZA https://preview.redd.it/vu2shgvnexn81.jpg?width=696&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1420f5c86f97f7dd2378a368ca96ae83e2ec1fa

A friend of mine works in the same field that I do. He is very driven and learns quickly. He started with a company and was learning a lot from the only other I.T. employee. 3 months in, the employee quit and instead of hiring someone new, they told him that he could learn everything, take his time and would be solely responsible for all of their tech. It sounded horribly daunting for someone who was brand new to the company. Still – I knew he could handle it and was very excited for him. I told him, “I bet that came with a good raise!” “Not really bc they know the experience is more valuable in the long run for me.” Dude. What? You're telling me their head of I.T. left and they decided that they would just pocket that salary instead of hiring someone else or paying you…

I posted earlier in the week about the toxic work environment, harassment and bullying in facing. I was written up for the first time in my career, after 2.5 years with the company. I’ve never had a single formal review or even a verbal, above all my KPI’s and was given a salary bump last year. During my time, I worked outside of my only allowed 40 hours (I’m mid level management – but paid hourly + heavy commission) to create an all inclusive manual on start to finish of our job processes. This was not a direction of my supervisor but “something that could really help out”. It took me weeks to compile and when it was done, I was asked the change it and make it into and index with reference page numbers so it could be printed – and that took another 2 weeks. I plan on…