Antiwork

Unions strike me as a rather passive body, which reacts against ill treatment of its members rather than proactively lashing out at errant employers. Strikes are slow to mobilize, and collective action is lethargic, given the reactive/passive nature of unions. This also makes unions susceptible to busting and attacks. I was thinking: what if we are able to get a large percentage of working class folks to sign up to a e.g. “Labour Collective”? This labour collective would act as a gatekeeper to labour that employers need. I.e. when a McDonalds is hiring, the labour collective will speak to that McDonalds branch, ask them how many people they need, and then fight for a higher wage outright, or deny labour disbursement outright to that McDonalds branch + blacklist that branch by attacking them on social media. Something like a middle-man recruitment agency, but acts on behalf of the labour class…

Background: Located in Texas. I work in a field that is incredibly corrupt and corporations generally just take advantage of kids with special needs for hefty insurance payouts. Like $100k+ is generated annually per kid regardless of whether progress is made or not. Despite the prevalence of really bad practices in the industry, my certification board requires that I provide 30 days' notice. I once got a slap on the wrist for refusing to participate in felony fraud despite submitting a literal binder of evidence. I was really transparent in my interview that I didn't want anything to do with fraud and cutting corners because of that, and assumed that I had found somewhere decent when they sent an employment offer anyway. I'm an idiot and I took a $10k signing bonus, but I was smart enough to never sign anything agreeing to payroll deductions, as written authorization is required…

If you aren’t an engineer, or if you don’t have an in-demand grad degree, you probably won’t be able to retire. Meanwhile, you have probably had to politely deal with a multigenerational tech shit@!& at work.

so my last day at my current job is this Monday, but before i put my notice in i asked my manager if i could work from home for an entire month for ramadan. for those who don’t know, ramadan is a religious month where we don’t eat from sunrise to sunset for 30 days. i wanted to work from home since i won’t have food or water in my system the entire work day and it would just be better if i worked from home. today i found out he called it stupid and said it infront of a bunch of people, not me, one of my friends told me. so i need some advice. if i go to HR on monday and tell them what he said and i have witnesses, will they do anything because it’s my last day? i’m also thinking about confronting my manager and…

I know this should probably go to some kind of legal advice subreddit (not sure which one) but, well… I recently started work at this gas station, and part of onboarding was signing some little thing that basically says that if no one is there to cover me during my lunch that I (in bold) “'voluntarily agree to work an on-duty meal period'”. I do not know if there is ever a plan to actually have such a person to do that, or the exact details as I am new to this and work in general, but I remain curious as to the legality of the whole thing. It certainly seems dubious, given repeated insistence on lunch breaks from elsewhere.