Antiwork

Actions speak louder than words. None of what you are sharing is new. THIS IS OLD NEWS. HOW ABOUT WE DO SOMETHING.

I think that either: 1. Most people will be out of a job and will dip into poverty. They'll realize that the .01% have taken all the wealth and will unite against them under the common cause of not starving to death. The .01% obviously can't fight off 99.99% of humanity, even with their robot soldiers, so they go off to space to be taken care of by their machine slaves 2. Same as 1 but the .01% realize 1's inevitability early and go off to space while they still can, leaving the rest of us on Earth to our own devices 3. The .01% give an upgraded UBI to everyone so as to both keep us from revolting and allow us to buy their automation-produced goods

I started work when I was 14 as dishwasher boy for family friends parents restaurant to now doing IT career at 30. I have been recently let go, though the job was paying me well, it was a toxic environment. I got into my IT career at 21 doing non paid internship. At age 24, I job hopped 6 times because I hated working for my bosses. I had to find a way out and realized I would kill and hate myself working until I am 62 or something. I was let go two weeks ago, but I already had an exit plan way before. LUCKILY, Being Japanese and Filipino has many pros. I am able to leave this country. I have saved and invested well and can finally retire at age 30 with my wife outside America. Every day I worked, I felt like I wasn’t really living. I…

I've been taking Xanax for about 4 years now because I have panic attacks but every time I get a new job the doctors or nurses or whoever at my drug screening tell me how bad it is that I take anxiety medication and that I can't work there unless I take a small dose 12 or more hours before work. I don't even work with heavy machinery. That and now that I have seizures I'm never going to tell them about the medication I take for that. The conversations with them are flat out intrusive.

How we all feeling?

Boss A has a wife who co-produced and wrote an independent film. It is culturally significant and I do have an interest in seeing it but it is also sad in nature and is the kind of film you have to be mentally prepared for. Boss B tells us Friday afternoon over email that we are all going to see a showing of this film on Valentine’s evening outside of work hours. Me personally, I have no significant other and will not be doing anything on Valentine’s Day nor do I ever really care for it, but it seems so strange that we are basically being forced into watching this depressing moving on such short notice when typically you would be spending it with loved ones. We weren’t asked in advance if anyone had interest in going. I don’t know if I will attend as I want to support Boss…

I started a job a week ago at a warehouse only working 10 hr a week. I’m not in a position where I desperately need money. I don’t understand why the thought of going to work M, W, Th gives me so much anxiety and dread. I’m confident I have OCD (I’m seeing my doc tomorrow and I’m going to talk about it with him) but literally having to go to work has been on my mind all. week. long. literally, it hasn’t left my brain. I’m currently in college and i absolutely love it. however, I can’t figure out what is wrong with me that even just holding a job that’s very low hours makes me obsess so much and causes so much anxiety. I feel so alone. I don’t know what to do.