Antiwork

So yeah, I work full time. I make $12 an hour, was told that after I finished school I would make more and my position would change. I graduated in March and nothing has changed. I can’t leave my current job until October 1st due to licensure issues (I’m apprenticing now). I can’t pay my bills and have resorted to sex work. There is nothing wrong with sex work.. but it’s not for me. I can’t find restaurant work. I can’t find ANYTHING that will work with my schedule. So I have to sell myself to afford gas to get too and from my full time job because my pay checks partially cover my bills and that’s it. I’m so over it, I see no end in sight. I don’t want to live like this anymore. No one should work 40+ hours anywhere and then have to sell their body…

Just emailed someone as part of a group message. The reply I received said, “I am out of the office until July 10th. If this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911.” Good for them! Stealing that in the future.

Curious about fellow European antiwork stories. I know we have it slightly better on this side of the ocean but I feel like a lot of US office culture gets imported to Europe (especially by u.s. based multinationals) including the (sometimes very illegal) bullshit rules and mandates they think up over there. I'll kick off a story from about a year ago. I work for a software company, usually It's fairly good there. Nice benefits. Good colleagues. No ego-tripping managers (usually). I have a very specialised role in the company and only 1 other colleague of mine did that in a company of about 1900 employees. We were both in a medior position at the time and together we were absolutely unstoppable. When we had some intense inflation in Europe. We were both struggling financially and asked for a riase on par with the inflation number. Right after this my…

I live in the state of Wyoming and have been struggling in poverty for some time trying to work out a new plan to change things around. I abruptly quit my previous employer for continuing to cut hours, promoting poor conditions, and sexual harassment of female staff in general. In fact, they were already low staff and I waited toward peak times to quit. Currently I'm homeless, for now, but luckily, I've been working on an alternative plan for awhile and it's finally coming together. I'll be both moving and starting a new job (overnight warehouse) in Denver Colorado which will give me access to a lot more resources and hopefully a complete life turn around. Sadly I'm not there yet, and that's where the problem starts. I have a bus ticket lined up to take me to Denver, the issue is by the time I get there tonight, I'll…

What I mean is that we cannot talk back to our bosses. Even though they disrespect us, belittle us or are condescending. So many times I've wanted to say to them “FUCK YOU” and “FUCK YOUR 15 MINUTES CRASH COURSE JOB TRAINING “. One boss told us in a meeting “I'll be leaving to the other warehouse. Please behave ” while laughing at what he said. I wanted to tell him “we're all fucking adults here Shawn. You should trust that we'll do our jobs”. I think I'll start talking back on my next job. Just my two cents.

I’m at a job that supports something unethical and it’s been making me miserable. I’ve been there 6 months. Out of the blue, I got offered a job somewhere with amazing benefits, and I would be working for a good cause and the pay is good. Seems like a healthy culture too and is unionized so I’m accepting it when the offer is in writing. I’m taking PTO soon so I plan to give notice toward the end of PTO. I need some buffer time between jobs for mental health and as a result, I think I’d only be able to give them 7 days of work even though my notice period is “technically” 3 weeks. Is this unethical to my supervisor? We aren’t super close but I like him enough.