Antiwork

Do you think we could be resorting back to a hippie lifestyle movement?? The Jesus Movement inspired Christians to travel, find like minded ppl and live in communes together. Wouldn't it be great if ppl got together and prayed and worship 24/7 and did good to society like New Monastics??

Someone mentioned in here or a similar subreddit about hosting a national strike in the next two months or so. Where we all don’t work for a week. That would be such a great idea and a good statement point. Does anyone know what day or if we are doing this idea? Is this a good idea at all?

What an inspiring scene. I assume that as conditions deteriorate this will be where this sub ends up eventually.

Tl;DR I was basically told I quit my current employer because I didn’t show up to the shop this morning ready to work after I told them I did not want to work out of jurisdiction and they fired me without firing me. A little information: I'm in a union and apprentices have the right to not work out of jurisdiction if they don't want to as per the contract, and I've also worked out of jurisdiction before and it didn't end well. So it’s a long one get ready. I’m a 5th year electrician apprentice in the IBEW (a union for those don’t know) and I was terminated today because I didn’t show up to the shop this morning ready to work. Three weeks ago I was at a commercial job that ended and the shop pretty much had nowhere to put me so I was off for a…

I work at one of the largest tech companies in the world, maybe the largest, I won't name the company but if you're paying attention it's a really big deal. They pay us good, it's like over $20 an hour and you don't need an education, the job is to sit there and monitor tools and notify the engineers when something needs fixed. It's pretty much the easiest most well paying job you could ask for in the modern day with all benefits you could think of. 12 hours, 3 days on 4 days off then reverse. I hate working in an office for someone else's profit. At the same time the level of work while not physically intensive at all is quite mentally taxing, you need to be smart and engaged. I've realized I kind of just want to exist and not beholden to the schedule set by my…