Antiwork

Leasing office people, do you have feelings about how much you have been made to facilitate aggressively exploitive rent increases lately, against families and your fellow humans, under the pretext of “inflation” and “the market”? For all employees including maintenance and other community staff, has your pay gone up accordingly with the exorbitant rents they're making you take from your residents and neighbors? Are they even sharing with you the benefits of what they're extorting from all of us? Societal instability affects all of us, not just the renters, and yet there seems to be little constructive discussion of what can or should be done to address this deeply destabilizing trend in America. Is there anything you can do to help protect families in your community from the predatory greed and abuse the owners require you to do in the name of their profits? Is there anything your tenants can…

You are walking along the street and see a brass lamp in the trash. You chuckle to yourself but decide to rub it anyway. Out pops a genie, he offers you fortune in exchange for something. You agree and the Genie says “I will offer you $58 in exchange for one day of your life, you can chose how many days you wish to exchange.” I am very disappointed, and decline this offer. The genie thinks for a moment and says, “what if I offer you $120 per day?” I still decline. The genie thinks a little longer and says “You agreed to this, so this is my third and final offer. You can either take this, or we will part ways and I will not grant you anything. I can offer you $200 per day of your life, however you need to give me at minimum of 520 days…

For context, I have a co-worker who was written up on Thursday, she signed it and was venting about the write up saying they didn't make the mistakes that led up to the write up. I was told to never sign a write up, unless they have evidence to support their claim. I.e phone, computer records. The coworker was written up for making an appointment for someone who we do not accept their insurance. She was told the issue has “already been fixed” and wasn't given any additional information. The next day my coworker was asked to come back into our manager's office and I noted to them, if they are asked to sign another write up don't do it, if they don't show you any evidence or say they “already fixed it.” She was written up again for something they stated she made a mistake on but “the issue…

I have a wonderful situation with my current job. The only crappy thing is that it's 7 days a week, but my boss has told me I can occasionally miss a day. It's a 1099, but after I calculate my deductions for mileage I won't end up paying any taxes or at least very little. It's $15/h and I'm automatically paid for 18 hours, so it's $270 a week. My boss told me as long as I get my duties done I can leave…. even if it's only 30 minutes. It's a cleaning job in a clothing store at a mall and I probably could do my shorter “two” hour shifts in 30 minutes, but I'm concerned one of the managers might get pissed if I'm only there for 30 minutes, so I just hang out in the janitorial closet vaping and messing around on my phone for a good…

I see a lot of posts about 4 day work weeks but I see no discussion around making school 4 days as well. Why torture the kids? Half the bullshit they learn is school they learned three years ago and they are just repeating the same lessons anyways.