Antiwork

I held a job since 17, and now that I’m 38 with an adult daughter, I have zero motivation to work. I am 9 months in an 18 month contract gig and told my manager last week, I didn’t think the job was a good fit and my skillset is best suited elsewhere. I’m interviewing other places but fear my sentiment around not truly wanting to work would follow me everywhere I go.

Dear employers / those that say there is a labor shortage – Let's be honest with ourselves. There is no ” labor shortage “. There are just as many people now as there has ever been. There are not more jobs suddenly needing to be filled. No, what's going on is people are f'n TIRED of working a job that paid $12 an hour in 2005 in 2022 for $12 an hour. People are f'n TIRED of working themselves to the bone for pennies. People are f'n TIRED and PISSED that they went to college for 4+years to get an education for you to offer them $12 an hour with their qualifications (and on your stupid resume a 4 year degree is a must!) . People are f'n PISSED they were pretty much forced / told / coerced into going into college (“if you don't get a higher education you…

When I was in university, I got a job through a friend at a bagel shop. It was the absolute worst. I came in for the interview and the first thing the owner said to me was “I don’t want a guy working here, but no women applied, so I’ll give you a shot.” The next day I come in and it’s the breakfast rush. Nobody trained me and the owner is just yelling at me to be faster. A bagel caught on fire in the toaster, so naturally i unplugged it. Apparently that’s what you’re not supposed to do, so the owner is berating me for that while I’m scrambling to help customers. The whole time I worked there nobody gave me any training, and I spent most of the time just trying to find where things were. We close on Sunday afternoon at 4, and we were slow,…

As a legally blind person living on disability specifically ssdi you might as well not work because any money you make gets deducted from what you receive and I'd be working just to make the money back from food stamps that will be taken from me also the rent will go up so there's really no point in even getting any on the books job. The other option is cash jobs on Craigslist that I have no buisness doing as a legally blind person but unfortunately I've attempted atleast a dozen of them and met every type of felonious shit eating fuck of a boss that would hire a disabled person just to take advantage of them. My latest attempt at trying to work caused me to lose a finger and I've had other accidents like having a tree limb fall and hit my lower back like a baseball bat…

I applied for an entry level job with an estate agent as I’m unemployed but really don’t want to work in retail again. The job ad said the job pays £25,000 a year, which isn’t bad. I then find out in the interview that £25,000 is your OTE (on target earnings) and that the base salary is £20,000. The job is 45 hours a week. But of quick maths tells you that it pays £8.53 per hour, which is less than the UK minimum wage of £8.91 for anyone over 23. Needless to say, I told them I will only work for companies who pay above the national minimum wage.