Antiwork

What type of job do you have and what do you like to do to reclaim your time at work? I'm working on an anti-work informational zine and I'd like some help brainstorming some good company time wasters. I'd love to hear about how ppl with different types of jobs spend their time counting down the clock to go home. Personally, I'm in admin and I like to read manga, write, and play flash games. Would love to hear what you do to waste time!

The League of Legends Championship Series Players Association has walked out just days before the series opener in a show of solidarity with it's other members who lost their jobs overnight. The TL;DR of the situation is that team owners were complaining that running a tier 2 league (the NACL, or North American Challenger's League) was too expensive. As a result Riot Games, the league owner, dropped the requirement to field a tier 2 roster. 7/10 teams immediately dropped their players and the other 3 were in limbo. The LCSPA then walked out forcing Riot to delay the season by two weeks because literally no one was willing to play. Riot even tried removing certain long standing rules about player eligibility. So now negotiation is just beginning, and nothing has been won yet, but I just wanted to draw attention to this show of solidarity from not only all the…

The position above me has tried many times to off load her work to me and I have shut it down stating that their position is responsible for that work and is compensated accordingly. They have always maintained that the difference in pay was small and inconsequential even though they didn't know thier rate. (Never bothered to work out the math themselves after promotion) Well; we all got cost of living raises and the company failed to tell anyone what the raise was so we worked it out ourselves….. After the raise they make over $2 more a hour then I do. Thier work load will be increased this year but right now they use maybe 10 to 30 mins a day on the extra work….. When thier work load increases they fully expect me to take on part of it. Not happening unless I get closer to their pay,…

It’s only been 3 weeks but I’ll frequently go off somewhere for an hour and no one cares because I barely have any tasks to do in the day and frequently show up late because nobody really cares (which is fucking amazing) but yeah it does confuse me what is the point of my being here, I think I do actual work for average 2-3 hours a day… is this normal

Apparently if you use a computer for the majority of your work but don't have unnecessary papers lying all around you, you're a lazy POS. I work in a typical office (cubicle style while bosses get enclosed offices). My boss walks by my desk fairly often and occasionally makes a comment “jokingly,” sometimes not jokingly, that I need to put something on my desk otherwise it looks like I'm not working. I've explained to him I'm using my computer so don't need papers, but he insists, especially if guests visit the office. It's starting to get on my nerves. I placed a single binder on my desk and moved my water bottle over and it seems to have worked for now, but I just find it to be so stupid and trivial. I get overwhelmed having a messy desk and don't understand the insane amount of printing offices do on…

This one's old, but I just thought of it and cringed internally at the stupidity. I was working at a sandwich franchise owned by this mid-50s couple. The woman was the only one I met because by this point their marriage only survived because neither wanted to split up the businesses in a divorce. I had worked at a different location before, but under a different owner. When I started, this location was sharing a store manager with another location and owner made her full time at the other location and expected me to just run things, without asking me. I was the only one over 18 and I had a food safety license and store manager experience, so she just decided I'd take over (at minimum wage!). One day right after I started, owner comes in and says “[other location] needs change” and takes $60 in rolled coins out…

I come from nothing. No parents, no real family, no assurance. What happened to my family? Lots of premature deaths, overdoses, repeating generational issues, the whole poverty experience. I was the sole survivor of my original family by 12. That made life very difficult as one would imagine, but I have somehow managed to get my life in order all these years later. With barely a high school education and no degrees I have worked my way into a position that pays me what I believed to be a decent living wage without requiring me to break my back. Yes, I deal with some unpaid on-call bullshit and the likes but I am able to afford my own place, a car and food in my stomach. For a long time that was a pipe dream. Now I’m pushing 30 and the housing market is actually insane. I work with a…

What Is Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)? (With Pros and Cons) Updated March 10, 2023 Unlimited paid time off (PTO) is a structure in which employees are not assigned a set number of paid days off at the start of the year. Instead, employees are provided with the freedom to take time off when needed as long as doing so will not disrupt business. This provides significant flexibility as an employee and rewards productive use of work hours. Has anyone heard of this? This is from Indeed. If a company tried to do this, how would it even be possible?

With job agencies they send you anywhere. Im a good worker. I rock up on time to work. Pretty simple. When the same agency says im not required after 2 or three weeks with a company I want to know why. Was it me, basically. But no feedback…heres a new job at a new plant…rinse, repeat. Too afraid to spend money because who knows what situation is next week? Anyway, 3rd job in 4 months with a major chain offers an induction while Im being interviewed for an actuall full time job. I took the full time job. The Agency recommended Employer and an Agency official called me personally to chastise me. They complained that me not wanting to be effed around hurt them.