Antiwork

I work in a very small insurance office. Just four of us. My boss is almost never at work. And on the few days she is here she comes in late and leaves early. And she’s on personal phone calls almost the entire time. My two coworkers have found various reasons to leave work 20min, 30min, sometimes hours early or not come in at all, repeatedly for the past at least 6 months. The reasons are legitimate enough. I will give them that. One coworker is in the middle of a legal battle and has court dates. My other had a close relative who’s been in the hospital and needs my coworker’s help with things (although she’s better and my coworker continues to leave early anyway for some reason). My boss has two young kids and has had a stream of minor surgeries recently. (Although she’s been not showing up…

Back when I was just 18 years old, I had just graduated High School, gotten married (to my now ex wife), I left my job at JC Whitney for what I thought would be a more lucrative job: Selling cars. It was 2003 & everyone had good credit so you tried to sell everyone, but it was hard to actually get someone to buy (which is funny, cuz the next time I tried selling cars was after 2008 & nobody had good credit, but for some reason EVERYONE wanted to buy). I really liked my job as I was a huge motorhead & loved VWs. This dealership sold VWs as well as Mopar brands & Mazda. I was paid a salary of $300 per week, PLUS commission. I could survive on the salary alone, so any sales were a total bonus for me at the time. I was the kind…

I’m curious if anyone knows about any unions that may accept/work with Fire and Water Restoration workers (like ServePro or Paul Davis employees). Sick of my company’s bullshit but want to make it better for everyone. Trying to find out if we’re covered or included in an existing union or if we’d need to make our own.

I keep seeing posts about how hopeless everything is, how nothing will change. But we're looking right at change. Think about why r/antiwork was created, why “quiet quitting” has become a popularized term, why more people want WFH jobs, why we see news about how lazy Milennials and Gen Z are. Its because more people are becoming aware of the broken system and setting boundaries, refusing to be exploited any further. But the biggest change is that more people are joining unions and going on strikes, not just in the US but all over the world. This isnt new. Look at history. Workers create wealth and the capitalists exploit its workers. Workers rise up and gain power again, then cycle repeats. French revolution, labor movements during industrialization revolution, and more. Here is an example. This what happened during The Great Depression, when the unemployment was ~25% in the US. Millions…

why has it become a habit of interviewers to ask how much you made at your last job & if you had benefits? what does it fucking matter to you

My sister (28F) has worked at a local factory for the last 4 years. (Backstory, my sister has a pretty bad documented learning disability that affects her ability to read write and communicate fluently she also has adhd, anxiety, & depression.) My sisters father also has Huntington’s and it’s very likely that she does as well. She displays very like and exaggerated symptoms. She has not been tested for this yet… as for Huntington’s testing you have to be able to pass a psych evaluation before knowing the outcome as it often results in a high rate of suicide. Onto the story, my sister was late 4 times in the last 6 months due to weather in Wisconsin. These lates ranged from an average of 2-5 minutes. She lives in the rural country as well as the factory she works at. My sister was pulled into the office in front…