Antiwork

So I had my first interview for a sales job today and the Head of Sales gave me major creeper vibes. At first it was normal, talking about the job and responsibilities but then he randomly started cussing and talking about “hot interns”. I was shook. Once he got comfortable with me he was telling me about how everyone is family and no one wants to work with assholes. This is not a place for douchebags and cocky fucks. There’s a lot of perks, including hot interns in the summers. So fucking weird

Does anyone here work in social services or healthcare? I referred to myself in another thread as a “recovering workaholic”. I've worked long hours and sometimes multiple jobs since I was old enough to work. I think the longest stretch I did was a month without a day off. During the first year of the pandemic I worked in a retirement home and it started a downward spiral in terms of my physical and mental health that nearly destroyed me. Now, I'm working in group homes supporting adults with disabilities. I love my work and the importance of it, it gives my life some meaning, and I can make a tangible difference in people's lives every day. I have the ability to be an inside advocate for people with disabilities and care workers. But the risk of burn out is incredibly high in jobs like this. I try my best…

I want to do art for a living (visual, music, literature, SOMETHING) but working 40+ hrs a week at my physically intense job leaves me so tired. My weekends are just resting and doing the chores I have energy for. I blink and my weekends are gone I'd like to show people what's inside my brain. I think people would like it. I think I have potential. But I have little time or energy to practice. It's so hard to come up with ideas when I'm focusing on how much my back hurts. Does anyone have advice? If not that's fine. We can hate the rich together instead

I take my card and I stand in line To make a buck I work overtime Dear sir letters keep comin' in the mail I work my back till it's racked with pain The boss can't even recall my name I show up late and I'm docked, it never fails I feel like just another, spoke in a great big wheel Like a tiny blade of grass in a great big field To workers I'm just another drone To Apple I'm just another phone I'm just another statistic on a sheet To teachers I'm just another child To the IRS I'm another file I'm just another consensus on the street Gonna cruise outta this city, head down to the sea Gonna shout out at the ocean, hey it's me And I feel like a number, feel like a number Feel like a stranger A stranger in this land, I feel…

My husbands boss to him on the morning group call for all the sales staff. We have had head cold symptoms all weekend. I don’t think it’s COVID and due to his job I think precautions could be taken and it would be fine. But to not even tell anyone? That is immoral as hell, plus possibly illegal. I am just stunned that in a call of 4-5 employees this manager still had the balls to tell them to keep this a secret.

For context, I am a trainee in a contractor thru my school. I work full time in holidays and days when no school, plus two days a week. Last year when school ended I was supposed to get a raise as i was no longer just in practice but a full time employee (I'm still in school and work, just different position). The office meant I shouldn't get the raise before after summer was over and school started again. After quite much arguing I, with help from my school, managed to convince them I was right. That was 5 months ago. Every month some lady in a different office than those who pay the salary, have promised me I was getting the money this salary. Every Single Month from then. Everytime i get the same response when I ask when I notice I haven't gotten the money. They somehow forgot…

I work in a seasonal job that starts at the end of April. Boss texts us today asking if we’re going to return with no prior warning or contact the entire winter season and wants an answer by the end of the day. I honestly have no fucking idea what I’m going to be doing right now as I’m a college student and need 3 internships to graduate in my major. I’m currently looking for internships and obviously if I find one I’ll take that and will only return to the seasonal job if I can’t get one. But there’s absolutely no way for me to fill out an application and get an answer on an internship in 8 hours to pass on to my seasonal boss. I understand wanting a response, but less than 24 hour notice? Really? I have absolutely no clue how I’m supposed to respond to…

Now so many people have joined this cause (have had thier eyes opened) but for a long time, most people I was honest about how I felt about America's “wealth of stuff” came on the backs of slaves and mistreated children, judged me as a bad person because I wasn't willing to contribute to what we had going. It nice seeing the tide of public opinion start to move. But it wrinkles my brain to think the same people hated me for my issues with how we maintain our lives, that now try to preach to me the antiwork thesis. I came from generational poverty in West Virginia and my mom broke her back to push our family into lower middle class. But when I was younger and expressing my concerns, she took it personal. She would ask how I could take all the hard work she did to give…