Antiwork

For context, I work in retail in Australia and am rather autistic. Because I have to keep up my mask whenever I’m at work I get extremely exhausted extremely quickly. As soon as I’m home I basically collapse into bed and sleep because I’m so tired. Even after a three hour shift. I also hate my routine being disrupted. So, unless I have nothing planned or feel particularly awake and alert I don’t tend to take extra shifts when asked. I mentioned this to a family member and was told that I should expect to be fired for that kind of behaviour. But, I do the work I’m assigned. I go to every shift and work to the best of my ability, I am doing what I am paid to do. I only call in if I’m sick but. Yeah. Can I get fired for that?

I worked for this company for 3 years now and I witnessed a lot of bad decisions they made but now I just can’t help but laugh at this. I work in a factory and we had 12 clients (some big companies). Recently they made a deal with 3 more. The assembly line were built for 2 out of 3 but they had to move the Warehouse to the other side of the city. Now if I order something it’s gonna be 4 hours before it arrives. This whole thing leads to several problems: We, the Material Handlers, have to work harder and more calculated since because the truck comes every 4 hours from the WH it’s necessary to have all the materials ordered in time. But sometimes it’s impossible since all the assembly lines make multiple models of the finished product. And when they change models it is important…

It can't keep going like this. We need to figure out how to fight the ever-worsening economic / workplace issues that are already affecting so many of us. No full-time worker should need to choose between food or basic shelter or medicine/health care. I have so many friends that would love to have children, but are deciding not to because they either can't afford a child or they worry that they would be bringing a child into a life of toil that has them working as a wage slave until they die. THIS IS NOT OK. I own a successful small business and I pay my (one) employee $26/hr and PTO that accrues at twice the rate I got back when I still worked for someone else, myself. This is for simple admin work because, seriously, he would not be able to afford even a crummy studio apartment in our…

Does anyone else feel obligated to work on the bank holiday or holidays where there is double pay even if your unwell? Background- I work as a casual host because it’s the only job that won’t question me for doctors notes or make me apologise every time because I suffer from a chronic illness that is prone to random, painful and frequent flare ups, and will sometimes need to call in sick, swap shifts, or give them away to my colleagues. And sometimes this will be a bank holiday where we get double pay. While I definitely need the money-the flare ups can be immobilising like today. When I come into work my colleagues will complain that I gave my shift away or insist that I was silly to give away work or money when the pay is double. In many ways they’re right but I did it once and…