Antiwork

I really ask this as a serious question. Have there been any organizations or movements involving large protests over a return to the office? Given how much the past two years have changed everyone’s lives, I can’t imagine millions of people going back to long and expensive commutes, spending less time with kids and family, wasting away under that lousy office lighting, having to use the bathroom next to someone else, the endless flow of office interruptions….not to mention the needless toll on the environment with cars clogging up highways or the cost of gas right now and probably for the foreseeable future. This seems like such a pivotal moment in terms of the way we work and live, there must be some kind of legitimate movement out there, no? If employees across the country decided to all walk out of their offices at the same time on the same…

We all should make 25 an hour minimum and get everything benefit wise free, they should start us with 100k in a 401 k so we can retire by 45 and enjoy life. Screw employers that put in the “hard work” and pay us. Now!

I (20F) have been a car salesman for the past two years and I hate it. I feel sleazy and like I am doing more of a disservice to my customers by selling them heavily overpriced vehicles. Car shortages have only made this worse. I have worked hard to get where I am now with my company, this is a smaller family-run business that does take my opinion into account. I currently work about 32 hours a week and I have hourly pay with commission on top. Due to mental strain, it was lowered from the original 45-50 hours a week with a small salary and commission. I made about $65k last year and for someone without a college degree that's pretty substantial. I grew up with my parents living paycheck to paycheck for the most part and so I am very money-oriented and I like to plan for the…

I’ve been a server at an American breakfast restaurant- let’s call it Pancake Apartment- for between one and two years. The girl who trained me was there for around 3 years and put her entire heart into serving, until today, when she was spontaneously fired because my power-tripping manager had a stick up her ass this morning. She added two more servers to my (slow) shift that I usually work alone as a punishment for me staying 30 minutes late last night to finish up something that wasn’t my responsibility to begin with. I can’t speak for all serving jobs, but at mine, more servers on a mostly slow shift just means wasted time and less money for everyone. I do just fine working by myself every day. She had three first shift employees walk out on her this morning, and a customer called corporate on her for how rudely…

I work a very physical job and we only get one 10 minute break for 5-7 hours. The workflow varies a lot so whenever I can I like to sit down for a minute. One of my supervisors saw me (I had no work to do at the moment and I had only been sitting down about 30 seconds) and gave me a 5 minute lecture about if there's no work I should be going back over the work I've already done. God forbid I sit down on company time. After the lecture things sped up again and I was too busy to even get a drink of water for the rest of the workday. (Exactly why I like to fucking sit down when I can) I fucking hate this job and I haven't even been here a full month yet.

I lead a three person department. We had a new hire come in about six months ago, who let slip what his starting wage was. It was 15% higher than my own starting wage, and 5% higher than my other employees current wage. So the other worker put in a five week notice. Guess he was somehow still managing to feel generous. His last day was this past Friday. It was a blow to the department, because this guy performed his job flawlessly. Given that he had put in five weeks notice, I assumed they would have more than enough time to get a replacement hired, and he could be trained by the guy who's been doing this task for the past six years First week, no one comes in for an interview. Same goes for the second, the third, the fourth, and his final week there. As someone who's…

American culture has become so completely focused on businesses and their inherent “right” for profit. We have allowed exploitation of workers and destruction to our environment because fair wages and protecting the planet THAT WE LIVE ON are a hindrance to profit. We've been taught to feel fucking BLESSED to have a job, ANY job, and to do whatever is asked of you. And, by God, be fucking GRATEFUL! Here's the thing, though: working for a company is not a privilege. The employee/employer relationship is, technically, a symbiotic relationship. A business has work that they need done, an individual needs money to live. WITHOUT WORKERS, THERE ARE NO BUSINESSES! It's time we remember our power, bring unions back, and fight for what's right.