Antiwork

Fuckin shoot me. 34 (almost 35) went back to school after working 5 years at a bank. Went on stress leave and ended up quitting, hence the back at school thing. I’m in year 2 of a 3 year program- sports management. It’s a business degree. Marks have been fine (85ish average) but I have no real sense of what I want to do after. We have a careers class all about “discovering your passion” and “what is your personal brand” Bruh I don’t have one. I have no passion, I have no idea what my skills are. I don’t have a personal brand. I don’t want a personal brand. I don’t want to stand out. I just want to make enough money to live at a job where I don’t actively think about unaliving myself. We live in a capitalist hellscape and why are we talking about banal shit…

Anyone know of any laws/regulations for this? I’m an hourly retail worker we do not have anything resembling being “on call”. Today I got a call at 6am from my boss but I didn’t answer because I was asleep. The boss left no voicemail. Then a few hours later they called me from another workers phone and left a voicemail asking me to call her back to explain how to do something. Then a few hours later I got ANOTHER call from them on another employees phone. I didn’t answer any of them because I don’t answer work calls when I’m off. I’ll listen to a voicemail if they leave one and decide if I’m willing to call them back. It’s retail, nothing is life or death so there’s absolutely no reason to call me on my day off. To me, my time is my own. Just wondering if there…

Eventually even Very Reputable Employers get You angry People are Eager to Really learn and Support the company Objectives but still Never shown respect One day though… Never mind Try as you might He, “the man” Is your master Surrender Sometimes it can seem Unbelievable But it’s true I give my Sweat and tears Regrettably though Even after everything Try as I may Am trampled Repeatedly Day in and day out Eventually leading to my Demise

So in my country (New Zealand) we go by the standard 5 days of work, 2 day weekend. I am a 15 year old currently at high school. This is how my days break up Monday: I go to school from 8:35 to 3:10. I then have a guitar class afterwards I attend from 3:30 to 4:00 Tuesday: school again. Afterwards I have a cooking class from 4:30 to 7:00 Wednesday: school. Drama class from 3:30 to 4:30 Thursday: school. One of only 2 days I get a break. Friday: school. Then another cooking class for the same amount of time as tuesday. Saturday: another day I get to relax Sunday: I go to my grandparents house and help out for a few hours and just spend time with them in general. This is my week. In New Zealand the youngest a company can legally hire a person (as long…

This may be long but I really needed a place to rant about this. It's the biggest bunch of capitalistic greedy business owner bullshit I've heard in a while and it's even more shitty (to me) because it happened to my dad. For ease of story telling, my dad will be know as Dad (40s) and his boss will be known as Asshat (50ish M). My dad has been working in the automotive industry for over twenty years at this point. He worked his way up from a basic mechanic to senior tech to running the front of the business and talking to customers. He had been at his most recent job for about 5 years or so at the time he got fired. (Dad had only been at two other places, he's not one to job hop). Anyway, he was hired at this most recent place by the owner…

I work in a local fish/reptile store and I only make 13.50/hr in a state where McDonald’s starts out at 17. I stay becuase I love this industry and have a lot of reptiles myself and it’s a gateway to other jobs I actually want, however I’m getting sick of being paid crap for the work I do. My manager isn’t the issue per say as she doesn’t control pay, but the owner is. He’s an entitled cheap ass and I’m tired of it. I run the reptile section and am knowledge at fresh and salt, but I don’t do the extra and just do my basic requirements and now the to do list is backing up. Oh well. Acting my wage is causing stress from my boss and it’s glorious. I do enough to make basic sales and keep the animals healthy to the best of my ability and…

I made a post about an hour ago, check that post if you want to know the full story. Basically I wasn’t paid on time, there was a variety of things making my job harder, and the lock on the bathroom door barely even worked properly. I was sick of everything that added up and did not want my privacy at risk again/did not want to see anything I didn’t want to see again. How will this affect my future employment? This was my first job by the way.