Antiwork

My airline which shall not be named at this time is highly against a union. The pilots have pushed to make changes and they haven't seen them at all. I can't be too specific because I assure you the absolute dog shot treatment we've endured since the pandemic began would make the lot of you insane. My issue is, our higher ups and by higher I mean faces of the company continue sending emails out speaking about “how bad they are, beware, you shouldn't do this” are these legal tactics from them in this situation. I thought companies weren't allowed to speak on a union being formed in their company.

I work for an accounting firm on a salaried position. I also have a shit ton of responsibilities within the company that usually take 10 – 15 hours. The boss schedules time after I get off for a meeting where she tells us we need to put in a minimum of 38 hours of client work per week. Okay, could’ve told me that in an email. She then calls me the next day and tells me some others were asking if it would be okay to work more hours to get internal projects done. So she’ll “allow” me to work on internal projects like business development over 40 hours. Keep in mind there is no comp time, additional pay, or even a commission for bringing in new clients. I just said, thanks for letting me know. I won’t be doing those internal responsibilities if they take more than 2 hours.…

I was a boarder at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg at the tail end of Apartheid. My window in the hostel was on the fifth floor, and around us were skyscrapers of mostly transparent glass. One of my entertainments was in watching a guy in the neighboring skyscraper whose job it was to sweep the floor of the building. I assume he was hired by a company that had offices on only the fourth floor, because I always saw him sweeping the same narrow corridor, with doors to different offices behind him. He had a white guy in a dark blazer who would sometimes come up to check on him, but I figured out from observation, while smoking joints on the windowsill in the early hours of the morning, that this old black man had a full time job in which he swept all the dust into…

Earlier this week, I got a cold call from a life science recruiter that is asking me to relocate to WI in order to fill a series of vacancies. I have not reached out to their agency for new positions, but I keep myself open to new opportunities. A few things stood out during the lengthy phone call: The offered pay is for what I was making at my first job out of college. There are 8 positions that need to be filled asap. The position(s) expect 6+ years of advanced experience in the field, performing tasks that are usually left to R&D or management. They are recruiting and relocating nationwide. I'm already apprehensive, since I know right away that the company doesn't pay well, a whole bunch of people left abruptly, there is no opportunity to advance, poor coverage, poor management, and they can't hire local talent. We have…

I’ve been working as a personal shopper for walmart for the past year and a half. In that time I’ve been stalked and harassed by shithead customers, verbally assaulted by Karens (one who screamed at me to “Get some fucking hearing aids” when I asked her to repeat herself), belittled and misgendered by management (if I had the spoons, I’d pursue a discrimination case lmao), and generally just worked to the fucking bone for ungrateful shitheel customers and greedy, lazy corporate fucks. And you know how much I made to break my mind and body as an “essential worker?” $13 an hour before taxes. Fuck that, and fuck the Waltons. Sure, I had some good moments. I got really good at stealing merch and snacks, and made friends with a few customers who actually saw me as a human being. In the last month, I figured out how to fuck…