Antiwork

I've also done the same thing at my company: use vacation time to get a break from your normal duties so you can work on a special project for work. And this is considered normal in our workplaces. This subreddit is helping me see how utterly messed up this is.

Annually my company begs us to donate to a fund for employees in need…from other employees. Why not pay them more? Why don't YOU pay the money? Since they track “participation” I always donate $1.00 to get us a high donation ratio but it's effectively $0.00 so I don't feel like I'm selling myself out too badly.

…..and on top of the federal/state laws on individual rates, there was a collective percent required to go to the labor pool? What if Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft etc all had to pay, let’s say, 50% of all revenue to labor. If they pay over, fine. If they end up paying under, they have to spread out a yearly bonus to meet that percentage. My state forces health insurance providers to spend 80% of all money coming in on peoples’ care. The professional sports leagues have a revenue sharing deal with the players. Why not publicly traded companies? And maybe smaller private businesses have a lesser percentage.

I felt this way since my teenage years. I remember in 8th grade thinking 'Idk wtf am I gonna do when I grow up' and feeling the sadness even then. 29 now, still know fuck all. I literally cannot imagine waking up each and every god damn day and going to work. Always felt like something HAS to come along that will be good for me and this feeling would stop, but it doesn't. I can't even take control of my own fate, because I don't have a dream fuckin' job and a goal to pursue. Idk the fuck to do. And the thing is, I was unemployed for a long time and that wasn't good either. Maybe cuz of social programming of glorifying work but nevertheless. So I'm in this limbo of sadness and anger… Had an ok job now for 5 months in a sport store, worked with…

Posted this a couple weeks ago here, however I feel like this needs a lot more attention as it will help us show just how much money these companies are stealing from the workers. Lets first look at Apple Apple has 154,000 workers, so we take that number and multiply it by the $100 per hour raise, then multiply that by 2080 which is hours per work year if you work 40 hours a week for the 52 weeks. 154,000 x $100 x 2080 = $32,032,000,000. This is how much it would cost for them to pay their employees the $100 on top of current wages. Again this includes ALL employees and assumes they all work full 40 hours a week Apple in 2021 has made a PROFIT of $94.7billion. After giving every worker a $100 per hour increase they will still be one of the most profitable companies out…

I asked my manager if it would be cool to work 2 extra days remotely (we're in the office only 2 days a week, remote other 3 days) so that I could visit my S.O., who lives out of state, for our anniversary, and just work remotely from there for a week. She was cool with it but a higher up called be the next day, denied my request and blasted me for even asking. “It's different if you need to see a sick family member,” which I was previously granted, “but if you're visiting a boyfriend out of state for a week, that's a vacation. [Company] gives you so much paid time off, you don't need to save your vacation days, use them.” And my favorite, “at your level, you need to be with your team in person on a regular basis.” which basically means they need to micromanage…