Antiwork

tldr: Just gonna cut to the chase I left work without 2 weeks notice thanks to this sub and it is the best I have felt in a long time. HIGHLY RECOMMEND First post on reddit don't know if I am doing this right but for those who are interested here is what happened: I started of naive and believed that working lots whilst at college(UK, different to what Americans call college) would give me a head start in life. I was seriously wrong, I began work at the end of October at McDonald's with a open mind and working four shifts a week. Soon enough this took an effect on my mental health however I tried to push through it. It was about around December time when I found this sub and was liking the confidence that you guys have to stand up to these companies. Truly inspirational. I…

I’ve been working at this small local cafe for about 3-4 months now, and I recently found out that I’m still considered as an independent contractor. My coworker who got hired a month after me, told me she has been getting paid more and has officially become a part-time worker. Not only am I annoyed by this, but the owner of the cafe has been treating me like shit. I had difficult time learning the menu and the recipes in the beginning, and she would constantly compare me with other co workers. In the beginning I felt awful that I just couldn’t seem to be doing anything right, and it was so frustrating because I really was trying my best. But after finally having some shifts with my co workers, I realized that it was just a shitty place to work at. The owner didn’t start giving us tips until…

Most people who have had the procedure I underwent a week ago go back to work in about two weeks. My job is protected and I am getting pay under short term disability. For context, I work in healthcare and we are always incredibly short staffed. I tend to get upwards of 20-28 hours of overtime per pay period. I was starting to feel guilty because I am feeling good and realistically could probably go back after the usual two weeks people take. This sub helps. I am going to try to bask in my paid time off and really fully recover. Thank you all

30F with a kid. I am working 2 days every week, cleaning the kitchen in a restaurant in a greek island, for 4€/hour, so i earn 150-200€ each month. No insurance given to me, no contract. No other source of income. My employer filmed and showed me a video of the kitchen and told me that i didn't clean well the day before and that he was dissapointed. He was passing his finger over the surface in the video to show me that there were dirty spaces left. There was no fat-removing liquid in the kitchen. I mentioned that and i got the response that the liquid is only facilitating the job a bit, and that it is enough to clean with hot water and soap and then use vinegar. I used a fat-removing liquid (CIF) that bought myself, i applied it, but i forgot to pass a towel in…

Let me be clear; I'm not sure if human beings CAN, (as a species, not individuals), handle a world where you can find no more work to do. Obviously such an existence is a little bit too “pie in the sky” for the present moment of history, but the day is going to come when everyone's job has been 100% automated, and as a result, no jobs in the modern sense will be available anymore. I don't think that would stop human beings from setting up various tasks to work at, though, I just think it will be a lot more personal than putting 9-5 in at an accountants office; things like maybe forging 1000 perfect replicas of the “+ULFBUR+T” blades using period technology, or hand carving a statue of the Bhuda from a single freshwater pearl, or something like that. However, none of that is relevant to the original…

I am trying to find a job, and in my search, I came across this gem: Please include your salary request with your resume and how you rank yourself on each of the required and desired skills, on a scale of 1-10 for each skill (1= low skill 10= high skill). We will not consider applicants that do not provide their ratings. So not only are they not posting a salary range (which means they will low-ball any offers you make), but we're supposed to do the job of interviewing ourselves before we even interview with the company?

I work for one of these multinational justice system transcription companies (like, their product/service is court and police transcripts), but not naming names. Worked for them for something like five years. A lot has changed in terms of automation being brought in (speech to text programs) but they're still not as good as humans, so humans are still needed as well. These are big companies whose sole aim is to automate away transcripts and captioning and they treat their workers like robots as a result. There's constant oversight of every little thing you do, which you must record on your time management system (or TMS) like you're some kind of lawyer charging billable hours. Obviously there's no entry for things like taking a shit or socialising or taking a break, so anything necessary you do that's auxiliary to your work is dragging your productivity down. And they expect you to…

I just finished an interview at a local motel and one of the interview questions stuck with me. He asked “In a 6 month period how many times is it okay to call off.” I answered 3, 6 months is a long time and people get sick and hurt. He looked disappointed and said that he was expecting me to say 0. I know it's not that big but that really caught me off guard.