Antiwork

I think the reason why middle (and upper) management hates WFH is not the culture. It’s not the accountability of its workers. Its the fact that it opens the market. To me, antiwork means anti-bad management. Businesses have relied on momentum and barriers to entry. They can abuse workers because it’s tough to change jobs. Now it’s easier, and they’re being held accountable. That, of course, is problematic for many reasons (favors remote-able jobs, etc), and this isn’t an endorsement. It’s just an observation. In fact, as Amazon and Uber provide an alternative… they naturally become a 5th column. But in any case what we see right now is a rise in workers’ rights overall. In any case, the Internet’s officially in charge now.

I received a job offer today (Wednesday) which expires on Friday. I also have an interview for a different place tomorrow which I know will pay a bit more, but I doubt I would receive an offer from them tomorrow or Friday. Is there any downside to signing the first offer and then ghosting them if I receive a better offer from this next place?

I usually don’t break for lunch because I don’t have time (but they don’t know that). Now I have to make the time to spend with someone I don’t like.

I see many people complaining in this sub. What I always wondered, why so little people is willing to set up a coop? Specially for less capital intensive sectors, like IT workers that work for consultancy etc. In my city there's an IT coop wich is kinda famous in the IT world for the open source work they do. There's also a very big and famous supermarket chain which is a coop. The milk, cheese, yoghurt, chicken and olive oil I buy are from coop companies. In coops you get the fruit of your work (but you also deal with the consequences). In principle, it's a democratic system, although in practice I've seen that in most coops workers delegate the majority of decisions into voted managers, and they get meetings every months or every year to decide important topics. In northen spain the catholic church took the initiative with a…

I have to give 35h of my weeks, spread on 5 days. My job is physically and mentally tiring so much so that I can't even practice my passion. And barely see my friends because we all work. I don't date because I don't have the time or the energy. I basically feel like I'm alive to work a job that I hate. I'm on minimum wage after 2 years of working for the same company and can't even get my own place. I don't have any family members that could be my guarantor for an apartment which would at least make me feel better. I know this must sound ridiculous to people who work 50h a week with kids and whatever but that's how I feel. I tried talking about it with my friends and they made me feel like I'm childish and that's the way the world goes.…

I'm heavily involved in health and safety and my branch manager asked me to sit in for the Manager and Supervisor safety seminar (Zoom), discussing health and safety requirements. We get to the part about filling out an incident investigation, to be used for workers comp. purposes. The guy giving the seminar notes that: “Employees aren't allowed to fill out the investigation form.” Sure fine, makes sense. Then a manager jumps on and says: “Well, if we let the employees fill it out, they might nullify it or incriminate themselves.” Wait what? This manager is hoping an employee will incorrectly fill out the form and get denied worker's comp. I'm out, left the meeting, fuck this. A new low, these manager mindsets are disgusting.