Antiwork

What do you think we can do to take action? This subreddit has scale. It has the ability to move mountains if mobilized correctly — or wander aimlessly. I lurked while this subreddit had incredible momentum in late 2021…and I was present when the news outlets stopped reporting on this forum. How did Antiwork get neutralized? How do we leverage our size to stop the in-fighting and ignore the outside forces looking to keep Antiwork just another subreddit? I want to see folks coming together, ignoring bait, and not treating this as some subreddit for “entertaining bad boss” posts or ego boosts. What do you think we can do to take action?

I work in sales, the first two months of the year is a busy season for us, so we have certain rules in place: 1. Management will deny any pto 2. Monthly incentives where if you work overtime, you’ll get OT and they raffle off bonuses at random Most of us have our heads down hustling to make extra money. March rolls around, and for the first week in a row, a “disproportionate” number of salespeople take a sick day 7/50 people. Upper management gets a lot of pressure from executives after learning the employees calling in sick, which meant fewer people could cover the phones. New rule is if you take a sick day, you have to make it up within 30 days, fantastic.

I have been working for some time in a company that mixes the health and IT fields. The director of my company has a great public image but is actually a horrible human being. He spends his time disrespecting his employees. I hear a lot of rumors that he owes a lot of money because of the company. We are getting more and more threats from shady guys, probably unhappy customers but I can't prove it. I think every company faces threats, but this is the first time I've faced such violent messages. I'm really scared. My manager isn't much better, he's always talking down to me and has very abusive words for me and my colleagues. When I see him doing his hypocrite posts on Linkedin, it makes me want to vomit. I don't know if it's because of my company director that he's like this or if he's…

I need some advice. I get paid very well and the hours of the job are very short, around 4-5 hours a day and I get paid per day, not per hour. I've been doing this job for nearly a decade, and about 2 years ago my boss brought in someone else as my co-worker. My co-worker is an absolute moron. He does everything wrong and constantly makes mistakes. He's my bosses long time friend and he's much older than me. My boss never tells him he's doing anything wrong and never disciplines him. Instead he blames me for everything wrong his friend does. I've called him out on this and he literally admitted that he knows it was the other guy but he blames me in front of him so maybe he'll hear him yell at me and figure it out that he should fix his problem. Literally gets…

Hey everyone I’m new to the group. I’ve been working since I was 13 years old and it took the pandemic to open my eyes. I was working 50+ hours a week, had high blood pressure, horrible asthma, prescribed adderall and 50 lbs overweight. During the pandemic while I was home I lost the 50lbs, got of the blood pressure meds, stopped taking adderall, and got my asthma under control. I even got married, had a daughter and was available to take care of my dad while he suffered from dementia. Now I’m back at work at a “better” job but the time at work just doesn’t seem worth it anymore. I want to provide for my family but it seems like everything I do for my health conflicts with me being available for work and I’m always choosing between taking the time from my family or taking care of…

My former boss sucked. He used to say he only hired poor people because he didn't want to deal with people who would not depend on him. He used to pay our salaries late, and not pay the other benefits we had the rights to (not USA) I worked within the company for four years, learnt the job and, because he wasn't paying me correctly, I quit and open my own (same) business. We spent three years without any salary from my new business so I got another job to make ends meet for a while and then it started thriving. During the pandemic we were hit badly, and are slowing recovering from that, but we never failed paying our employees (I opened the business with a workmate from the same former company) This January he ran out of the business, after 28 years. In our small town there are…