Antiwork

My alarm rang a bit ago and I realized I had almost forgotten to post this for the third time today. So here you go! I live and work in glorious Europe, at a company that has multiple overseas investments, including some in America that are probably taking advantage of your dogshit labor protections to exploit you. But that’s fine (for me). I am a useful cog in a capitalist corporation that does all the same things other capitalists do but is somewhat better (for me) because my country ended 700 years of colonial genocide and a few fascist pogroms with some weak social democracy reforms that my countrymen gleefully vote away every time they get a chance. We elected Musolini’s granddaughter less than six months ago but everything’s going just fine (again, for me)! Things will continue going fine (for me) and I can’t see that. ever changing! So…

tl;dr: Work in Canada at a grocery store, NoFrills as a stocking clerk. bullshit. Looking for other jobs. Don't really know what to do. tired, shit job shit hours.just straight up fucking exploitation. I just want to drop the bullshit. also the world is fucked. the biosphere is in collapse. etc. which makes the whole thing fucking surreal.. I just don't care. I only do the minimum to not fuck over my coworkers. that's the real i won't say motivation,. but incentive. to not just do nothing. my dept heads/ft guys are great , so i don't want to do too little… but I also hate fucking job interviews…it's like for real? why do you want to work here? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? NOBODY FUCKING WANTS TO WORK HERE. ARE YOU HIGH? DO YOU HONESTLY THINK ANYBODY WOULD WORK HERE IF THEY HAD A BETTER OPTION? Stop fucking patronizing me.…

I do understand that mental health is important, and it's good that more people are talking about it. But it seems like we are placing the burden of taking care of one's mental health on individuals rather than the collective. I keep hearing stuff like self-help, self-care, resilience, cognitive behavioural therapy, meditation, mindfulness, exercise, slow breathing, etc. But all of these tools only help us to cope with adversaries and regulate our emotions. They don't help us confront adversaries that affects our mental health in the first place. These can even be harmful because it make us content with adversaries. By changing the way we think and feel, somehow the world will become a better place? Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not really well versed in the concepts of capitalism. But i know that capitalism promotes competition, globalisation, and consumerism, which can make us miserable and lonely. Many people…

I did the thing. I was in high school. My high school had an option to do tech school part time and graduate with an associates. I wanted to do automotive tech. My guidance counselr said don’t do that you’re SMART. Go to college. I did. I got a full scholarship. I probably wouldn’t have gone if I didn’t. “Go for stem” they said “guaranteed good career.” I did. I have no student loans but the only career really open to me was teaching through a program that gave people with a bs an option to teach as they gain a teaching certificate. I guess I didn’t do it right. Didn’t network enough. Started a career in manufacturing. I’m SMART. I’m an ok machinist now. Wages are fine, but not what I was promised for doing the thing.

This is just a vent. My coworkers are horribly toxic human beings. “Pat” removed my permissions for group communications without a reason and has refused to add me back. Pat was told to add me back multiple times by their boss and their bosses boss. Every time I speak Pat shuts me down. During a workshop session on team dynamics I shared that exclusion from communication makes it difficult to do my job. Pat responded directly to my statements and gaslit me. No one else in a group of 20 was interrupted by Pat or anyone else. It was a time to share our experiences, not argue.I am fucking furious. I witnessed a major ADA violation at our workplace. It put me in a really negative situation because “Cody” broke the law and caused harm to a person with a disability. I was really upset because I do not want…