Antiwork

I just need to rant for a second. This was my final straw and I’m ready to just quit. So I work 2 jobs. I work in the morning as a receptionist for my one job and a waitress at night for my 2nd job. My waitressing job I get paid very well and the benefits are great. The reason why I’m not full time at the restaurant though is because it’s exhausting and I know I’d be too burned out going full time. Hence why I have my secondary job. The problem with this secondary job is the manager over there. They don’t seem to understand why I don’t want to dedicate my life over to the place and don’t realize how exhausting it is to work two jobs. They are constantly asking me to come in on my one and only days off. It’s also annoying to have…

Just a simple question — is there (any more, nowadays) such a thing as a job which CAN actually be performed under normal circumstances? Like, during “regular” work hours with a “normal” level of human effort, can all job-requirements be finished? I wish this were merely a rhetorical question, but, I have to admit that, for me personally, I've NEVER been able to do my job at all. So, one reason I'm sympathetic with the /r/antiwork movement is simply, that I've never been able to finish. My work has always been like 20 times as much as any normal human could complete. So there's this ridiculous double-bind — either you (a) speed up so much that you do such shoddy work that you're embarrassed by it and your bosses can really honestly say you aren't doing good work, or you (b) skip doing things and your bosses can honestly say…

I work for a multibillion dollar international company. Our services are in high demand. We have hundreds of locations inside an even larger company. Our lease dictates our hours and then some. We’ve always had a hiring shortage, company wanted us to hire those with experience. Then that changed to, oh well the company only wants “licensed individuals,” which put us in competition with everyone else for staff. I’m licensed, my team is licensed, you basically cannot work in this field in CA without one- or run the business. Anywho, so COVID has changed the way we do business. Keep in mind we’re critically low staffed already. We’ve had call outs. People have been sick, some can’t work at all, some have chosen to just quit. Sometimes we’ve had to close up shop altogether for a day, or reduce hours because staffing is impossible. Some locations closed 2 hours early…

If everyone on the planet decided to no longer work starting tomorrow what would our world look like a year from then?

Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know how to explain how we were able to…

My SO hasn’t worked for a year now (most likely to “take a stand” against unfair wages, workplace environments, etc.) which is understandable given the current situation in the US, but I’m getting so fed up with being the only one working and having to pay for everything while he just sits and does nothing to help us get by financially or help prepare for the future. I don’t know how to tackle this problem. All I know is I’m exhausted, and this behavior has become a huge turn off.