Antiwork

Hello antiwork community! I’ve been lurking here for a bit and I’m now coming to you for advice on behalf of myself and my partner. Please excuse the long post but we’re kind of at the end of our rope. I don’t know if anyone has bright ideas on how to hold leadership accountable for creating miserable and chaotic work environments, or if my partner might have a legal leg to stand on for changing compensation and role requirements? Quitting would be ideal, but we need the income at the moment. For context: My former employer and my partner’s current employer has been a complete circus for the last year and a half. I was terminated without notice or explanation last year after voicing concerns about leadership in an “anonymous” feedback survey. I was in a managerial position at the time and didn’t know that the director would terminate me…

Hello all, I’m not 100% sure this would be the right sub for this question, but I’ve seen a lot of really great work advice from people here so I trust your judgment and I just really need help. I work for a large American corporation that has had problems in the past with ignoring violent employees to the detriment of their other employees. (Issues ranging in scale from verbal harassment to physical assault to murder.) I’m already on my way out the door, (only have 3 months left and I’ve got another job lined up.) HOWEVER. I have a current coworker, let’s call her Sally, who is extremely hostile and aggressive. She escalates even the smallest things into a huge deal. She is regularly cussing out our customer base and calling people names. I’m not talking about nasty karen customers, I’m talking about polite, reasonable customers who made a…

Anyone else read this book and end up shocked at how close the US has come to implementing basic universal income in the past? I just finished it and am curious about others’ take on if this is still possible in todays climate. Or what would we need to change to get back there?

It seems like unions are much more prevalent in blue collar type jobs. I saw a post on a different sub about some white collar worker complaining about their coworker not attending meetings, and it got me thinking if that is a barrier to unionization in white collar jobs: that employees are encouraged to turn on and blame each other. Surely white collar jobs could benefit from unionization though? I've never worked a white collar job, but those that do, what do you see as the biggest barriers to unionization?