Antiwork

There are no pure socialist or capitalist systems now or ever in history. People waste too much time arguing and alienating potential allies by gatekeeping “the movement.” Everything is a spectrum. Work for the changes that can be achieved. Socialized Healthcare, UBI, higher taxes for the rich, these things can happen.

Job 1- Shelf stacker- If you are ill, tell them you aren’t coming in the morning of your shift. I worked the Saturday of my job and felt awful and thought the decent thing to do would be to tell my manager that I wasn’t going to come in tomorrow as I felt terrible. This would then give him time to get someone to cover my shift. He moaned at me, saying that I was here today that surely I could do tomorrow as well. I called in sick the next morning because big surprise, I wasn’t very well. Job 2- Labourer- Pretend to work instead of resting. I worked 11 hour days and some of those days involved getting lumber off of a ship and then taking it to the storage. I worked very quickly and often got out of breath so that my colleagues could get all the…

This sub has opened my eyes on alot of the abuse I took while working for companies. I'm fairly young and have only had a few jobs where I stayed way too long. I'm a CNA. What are good questions to ask during an interview to assess how they treat their employees and compensate them fairly?

The family and I went to Chilis last night for dinner before the Superbowl. We figured most places would be a total shitshow because of the game, but the parking lot didn't look like it had a lot of cars and we didn't see a lot of people eating through the window so we thought maybe it would be okay. We were wrong. The place was absolutely swamped with take-out orders. The kitchen was backed up. Nobody said so, but I got the distinct impression that the kitchen was under-staffed leading to delays. There was a sizable crowd of people waiting for carry-out. There also looked like a shortage of wait staff, although more of them might have been pulled over to deal with carry-out. Our waitress was running everywhere, and kept apologizing for delays. We kept thanking her and telling her not to apologize. It's not her fault somebody…

When I hear the phrase, I think to myself “Is this really a thing I want to be going through College for? Working 9 to 5 all week for the rest of my life for a paltry hourly wage?” I still don’t know the answer to that question.