Antiwork

So i started a new job in supply chain distribution & was wondering if 1 hour of PTO for every 30 hrs worked in 5 day week is avg or subpar for the industry

Yeah ^ all of that. I’ve always worked in retail, until a recent (one month) stint working as an Administrative Assistant for a Real Estate Photography company. Over the last 3 years, mostly due to my stubborn stance of NEVER taking an insult unwarranted by employers, I’ve had 7 different jobs (some at the same time as others, some for 2 days… some for 9 months. You get the gist. I was not easily satisfied.). I kept encountering bosses that would either promise wages (and then never actually follow-up), verbally abuse me (to tears, multiple times), and gaslight me for being in shambles because of all of it. At the same time making like less than $12/h for a majority of the time. But anyways, just context. I’ve always tried to do my BEST in my job. I’ve had the same sh*thead employers call me back & beg me to…

Two parties control everything and have the exact same ideals, we vote for people not on merit or who is more qualified but who we dislike less, we are gaslighted at work and by “influencers” to just “stop drinking coffee” or “cancel those subscriptions” in place of discussions about worker protections and fair pay. We’ve allowed our lives to be dominated by talking points, politics, influencers and celebrities. We celebrate financial freedom only in the case of becoming exploiters. It has to stop, we deserve better than what we’re being given and we have the means to organize and push back against it. What do you want to see change?

A little background and some venting. Im a Flexographic Press Operator for a Union facility that makes cartons. I ironically work in a union ship while holding a bachelor degree in HR. My employer make cartons of all sizes from 4 oz to Quarts to Gallons between 6 facilities and 2 paper mills represented by different unions. Teamsters, USW and I dont know the other two. We have been working rotating 6 day work weeks since October and our sister facilities have been on 7 day work weeks for a while now. Management is terrible and the union doesnt seem to do much to help. I love what I do and the pay is decent 22.67/hr. What can we do to make unions stronger? We need stronger pro-union laws for sure but I highly doubt we will see pro-union laws passed in Congress anytime soon. However, we need more than…

I work in a hospital, so they’re obviously quite strict when it comes to Covid, working sick, quarantining, etc. On NYE I went home with a fever and got a Covid test the next morning from one of the only pharmacies that was open on New Years Day. Long story short: the results were taking forever to come in and I stayed in contact with the employee health and disability offices (disability handles short-term leave) every day. By that Thursday my results still weren’t in yet but I was feeling fine, 48hr without a fever, asymptomatic, etc and I was pretty sure I didn’t have covid but despite all of that I still wasn’t allowed to come back to work until my results were in. Both offices promised me even though I was feeling fine and able to work, I’d still be paid quarantine pay since they were the ones…

I was informed in a recent meeting that we are not permitted to take our 15 minute breaks before we finish our shifts. During the busy season I sometimes don't get a break until my lunch or right before my shift ends. So this seemed sketchy to me, but I am having trouble finding/understanding the legal jargon in the US & California meal & break laws. Is this illegal? Or is this just super controlling?

I’m 22 and was hired about six months ago. I’ll happily take accountability for my mistakes (and have) but I think the senior/bosses at my small company are using me as a scapegoat for their fuck ups. For instance we’ve been working a four month job with a client and I noticed a key detail was overlooked today. Now it’s somehow my fault for not catching something that had several iterations of with several people checking the work throughout. Anyway might get fired tomorrow for this idk. Fuck that

Part of this great artwork by Russell Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached. Everyone knows the story of the traveler in Naples who saw twelve beggars lying in the sun (it was before the days of Mussolini), and offered a lira to the laziest of them. Eleven of…