Antiwork

Just wondering if it's possible to create a union based on the anti work community. Could be quite easy by creating some ground rules for employers like a minimum wage of X, basic rules for overtime (e.g. paying 125%), etc etc. The great benefit of this is that setting it up is largely anonymous thereby gaining significant mass without corporates being able to interfere is significantly more difficult. Here we can unite and make our demands known. The only scary part that is asked of everyone who sympathizes is to let their demands be known when the time comes and significant mass has been reached. Let me know what you guys think?

I’m a freshman college student studying business and a couple weeks ago a junior in the same investing club as me offered me a one-time weekend job. He works as a student trainer for a financial modeling certification program. He knew I had competed the certification, and he needed an assistant to help him teach a boot camp over the weekend, 16 hours of work in total. I agreed, and he told me he’d “make sure I got paid”, but didn’t tell me how much. It wasn’t in his control, and I figured the company would just give me minimum wage. A few weeks later I get my invoice and it’s literally 125 dollars…for 16 hours of work. That’s less than minimum wage in the state I attend college. I’m so beyond frustrated I don’t even know what to do.

i'm sitting on two remote job conference calls listening to people on each talk about nothing screaming into the void trying to construct some sense of meaning and it's just so depressing that this is how hundreds of millions of people live and die against an indifferent universe for the one precious life they get and for what? so some rich asshole can have a few more numbers on paper that make his relative social status feel more important? the world we have built is psychotic

I was working at this fancy restaurant in chicago. They were doing a “soft opening” where each night they would allow the reservation list to grow just a little, to test the capabilities of the kitchen and front of house to keep up with the rush. This had gone on for a week or two and management would address problems as they’d come up and so on. Eventually one night we are fully open and the place is jammed. I’m splitting a section with two other waiters and we are swamped beyond belief. Patrons are literally waiting 30-45 minutes to get their first drinks. Food is getting lost. Total shitshow. If you’ve never waited tables you may not know how stressful this scene is. Your adrenals are pumping, you’re sweating profusely, and just desperately trying to keep it all in focus so the whole thing doesn’t go overboard. Of course…

Some people immediately get good jobs after law school. Some do internships or fellowships, often with low stipends. It can be hard to break into a specific sub-field or a firm. But, if you need money now (this affects me, as I am LGBT and lost financial support from family when I was 22), there's always document review for major litigation. ​ This is, in the main, reviewing materials for huge cases. It's the one part of lawyering a computer will eventually be able to do. One uses special software to categorize the several thousand to millions of pieces of paperwork so as to find the smoking gun, as it were. Once one understands the case and what's key, and learns software, a literal child could do it. But, they need lawyers. ​ In any case, this work attracts lawyers who are down on their luck, struggling with starting their…