Antiwork

Unless you are talking about an ACTUAL slave or slave conditions, this word is entirely inappropriate to use if you are attempting to relate it to bad pay, lousy healthcare, rude managers, long hours, etc. None of these things in any way, shape, or form, resembles anything that actual slaves have gone through and it’s really offensive to toss that word around so casually. Thank you very much.

Something I keep noticing is that “landlords” are often demonized on r/antiwork. Yet at the same time, I can’t help but think that “landlord” is a rather vague term that is simply thrown around in this sub. There is a massive difference between a family who is renting out their second home in order to supplement their income after having their second child, and those massive rental companies which make it a point to ruin everything and everyone. Additionally, I know from personal experience that many low SES immigrants, particularly those who are undocumented and have little to no job security or benefits, heavily rely on renting out their homes and rooms in order to have something that somewhat resembles a steady income. So who exactly are the landlords that this subreddit is against?

I (30F) work for a well known, nationwide supplier as an Assistant General manger. I have two employees I need to dispatch as drivers during the day regarding our business – there is no way to avoid them. I'll also prefix this entire thread : I have been employed here for almost a year and within the last month, have had my General Manager resign (he was with the company for close to ten years). This has been a roller coaster of an employment, corporate is terrible all the way down to managers. I've two issues at work, regarding two separate employees, the incidents that happened yesterday, have completely baffled me and basically brought me to a breaking point. Incident one is regarding the safety of one of my employees, incident two is regarding my own safety as one of my employees assaulted me. Incident #1 : This happened in…

Hi everyone, I'm currently in college, and I work part-time three days of the week. I want to stop working one od those days and start at a later time another day. How would I ask my manager this? Also, what should I do if he refuses/begs me to reconsider. We're very understaffed so I know he needs all the help he can get but I've been very exhausted and started falling behind. I'm hoping to by reducing my hours I can raise my grades.

I was seeing a bit of Cast Away again recently and I realized something. In the opening, Tom Hanks character is essentially doing the Alec Baldwin “motivational speech” from Glengarry Glen Ross, although nicer so you're not supposed to get the idea he's a POS and the rest of the movie is karma. I haven't seen Glengarry Glen Ross, but I know the gist of it and have seen the ABC speech. Here's a rather well off executive flown in to whip workers who are probably worse off than even the bottom for American workers. He's engaged in labor tourism, like Mike Rowe. He works really hard a few days a month and spends the rest of the time managing. He doesn't have to then try and survive on what the people who have to do this all day every day do, and he doesn't have to do this all…

I'm 19M who works at a restaurant in central London, part time 3 days a week, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The hours range between 9-10 and sometimes over. It's challenging work but I suck it up because I get along well with the people I work with, I like making money for my travels during my gap year and Covid means they are understaffed so they need all the help they can get. I see that the people that work there full time have their lives destroyed by this job at the moment. They work 5 days a week, sometimes more, doing major over time due to lack of staff and not even being paid by the hour like me so sometimes its not even worth it. I see this and I think, this shit could be headed my way. I want to take any opportunity to travel while I…

I work as a casual worker in a seasonal industry. I'm confident that my contract will be renewed after the cool down time, but my work load won't increase until the new season starts. As I have bills to pay, I decided to look for a second job to fill the gap, which I secured after one application, but the contract is so dodgy. For starters, if the company pays me sick pay and I get any form of compensation from whatever caused the sick leave, I have to pay back the sick pay (e.g. I get injured at Job A that causes Job B to have to pay sick leave. Job A gets found to be liable for the injury and has to pay me compensation, Job B gets whatever they paid me in sick pay back. Oh and if it's Job B's fault I got injured, they can…

I work at a union job that tops out in pay and my work for a while hasnt raised my pay even tho I brought it up to them. A week later they admit to doing it and say they will pay me backpay for it. When I ask to get it in a seperate check due to taxs. They admit to already adding it to my regular check so I can kiss that money goodbye to taxes. My union guy is saying because the company is fixing the problem they cant do anything is that true?

If you're not familiar with Canadian labour laws your input will not be helpful. I am a contractor located in Alberta(incorporated) and my client base is mostly in the entertainment industry. My number one client has started asking me to travel to other cities recently and I am having trouble with their travel policies. In a lot of cases the travel is close enough that driving is an advantage over flying. When you factor in getting to the airport, parking, checking in etc it's often shorter to just drive to the work site in the other city. So here's the difference in their travel policy: Driving. Hourly pay for one way only. Mileage for return trip that's a fair rate. Flying. Five hours hourly rate each way for a total of 10 hours. Flight paid for. Parking paid for at airport. Taxi from airport to venue/hotel and back. It's really…