Antiwork

Let me give you some more context I’ve been with this employer for only two months. Three weeks in I got Covid and was required to not return to work for 5 days. My supervisor told me “only bitches take time off for Covid, if you use the Covid pay the company provides you’re a bitch.” This was our first altercation. Fast forward a few weeks, he notices I have a week off. He scolds me about taking time off being so new, I explained that this was a vacation I had planned and paid for prior to working here and it was already approved by my manager and upper management. Strike two. Fast forward to today, my first day back from vacation. He aggressively takes me to the back room, scolds me about how it “hurts the business” by missing so many days, that I am lucky I’m still…

Work your ass off, come home go to sleep. Too tired to do anything else. Alarm goes off, go back to work, repeat. Do it for forty years and die. What's the point? Unless your job is something personal you enjoy, there's no value to a life of all work. There's no point in living just to live. “Oh but I do it for my kids” fantastic, and they get to grow up and live their life the same way. There's no point to hustling or grinding, because plain and simple, you will die. You will DIE. And your consciousness and accomplishments will disappear for the rest of eternity, and it'll be like you were never even here. So fuck trying to build an empire of money, all that matters is squeezing as much joy out of this short shit existence before you kick the bucket, and vanish off the…

I’ve been working retail a long time now, and a trend every single damn company does is creating a company credit card to sell to customers. Currently, I work as a bank teller for a regional bank. This year, our performance is based solely on credit card sales – not customer satisfaction, not account openings, not accuracy of work, not knowledge of products. Credit cards. Our performance directly influences our raises and promotions. So if I don’t sell enough credit cards, I will stay making less than market value. I wholeheartedly hate selling credit cards. If someone wants or needs it, they’ll let me know. But just randomly probing someone doing a deposit/withdrawal so I can insert a credit card spiel? Disgusting to me. Majority of our customers literally live off social security, fixed income. I find it scummy to enforce selling something that can ruin a persons life if…

Being able to save, buy a home, go on nice breaks away. We came into adulthood and have only ever experienced adversity. It ends one of two ways, human slavery makes a come-back in an even bigger way than it already has, or revolution!

So I handed in my two weeks today (although some people have mentioned I should have just left immediately). I’m starting to feel some regret, but I’m trying to remind myself that I was miserable for a long time. Some reasons why I quit were (but not limited to): – a manager was bossy and only wanted to feel his importance while giving other people his job to do – ageism (I was the youngest person there even though I was also a manager) – guilt tripping store manager that would constantly take PTO but make me feel bad about wanting to take a couple weekends off But did anyone else have any regret or sadness? I did like the job just not the people. I know I did the right thing, but it just sucks knowing I put so much into it and they pushed me away.

I would be fine with going to work if we weren’t always short staffed. I would be okay with working if I wasn’t forced into overtime every week. I wouldn’t mind my job if I didn’t work 12 hours a day. I could accept working long hours if I didn’t have to do it 6 days a week. I would be grateful with the lousy pay if I got benefits. Some insurance or even sick time. I wouldn’t be mad if I didn’t get unpaid vacations…. If I could take time off at all. I could accept paying taxes on all this time, if the money was used responsibly. I will pay my overpriced rent with a smile on my face, if my landlord actually did his job maintaining the property instead of ignoring the broken stove, washer, dryer, overflowing dumpster, leaking room, broken porch, black mold, broken windows and…