Antiwork

I'm a senior manager for a large government contract and feel as though my perspective on anti-work is more a view of a more balanced legislative requirement across the board on lesser working hours per week, creating living wages, keeping wages in line with inflation etc. However I'm seeing a lot of people who are anti work because they have worked for atrocious bosses/companies and nothing more than that. Is it just that many of you simply haven't found the right company/boss/fit to match your personal needs? I do agree some of the emails/texts I've seen are absolutely disgusting and if I had done anything remotely like that for my company I'd have been booted out the door!

So if fuel is getting so expensive, why are cars still out there racing and driving our prices up? I get advertisement, but screw those corporations too. I think that sports stars are overpayed too, why do they need to make millions throwing a ball? I think that they could just have one city where all the teams live and have a single Stadium they play televised games in. The rest could be converted into homeless shelters and what else? We'd see traffic in every major city go down significantly. Homeless people off the streets, games would still be on tv, and the balls would be cut off of big money in organized sports. They really don't need to exist. Please feel free to show me the holes in this logic other than teams cheating *which they already do* and then tell me why you think they deserve millions of…

I’m so physically and mentally exhausted. I’m running out of money because I just can’t urge myself to work. I saved up 20k only to realize that I needed at least 50k to even imagine buying a house. But then I broke my ankle, except during 2 ER visits, nobody saw the break. So for 3 months, I was in agony, until I went to a specialist that looked at my old scans and pointed out the break. I can’t afford physical therapy or surgery for my deformed ankle. I mean, I’ve had an infected tonsil since I was 8 years old that I still can’t afford to have removed. My insurance dropped me because I couldn’t afford to pay 30k to the hospital that didn’t treat me. It’s an endless cycle. I have an autoimmune disease that I can’t afford medicine for and I live with chronic pain, disability…

I work for a small business where I was promoted to general manager about 6 months ago. Prior to the promotion I made $8 an hour. In an evaluation today, the owner told me they could no longer afford to pay me my salaried rate of $16 an hour (40 hours a week, no overtime). They've also taken away a couple of my responsibilities (as a way of demoting me without actually removing me from the position). I am now being asked to negotiate my pay cut because they can “no longer afford it”. They wanted to know what I think was “fair” rate, but I stalled and was able to ask to get back to them. They want an answer tomorrow and I have absolutely no idea what to say. How should I go about doing this? I'm not in a position where I can afford to leave, and…

Out the door, I'm a small business owner. Due to the nature of my business we can't fully transition to a worker co-op, but we do full profit sharing and unlimited PTO (just started that this year). I work 7 days a week, even when I get a day off I can't be more than ten minutes away from the shop in case someone gets sick or an emergency pops up. I've had to cut appointments short, cancel plans, and just give up on having ANY life outside of work. We can't afford to close the doors, we can't afford to lose any momentum in growth or we're going to drop off and fail. And if we fail, that's a bunch of people that lose a job that provides a living wage, and a real chance for them to have a future. Plenty of posts here oversimplify this: If I…

I tried to request off a week ago, but the earliest date available to even request was, the 21st I think. It’s dumb, because I know the schedule wasn’t written yet. I’m cool with working any other holiday. But V-Day? I hate this stupid “holiday”. It’s just commercialism for corporations to profit drain people. If you’re in a relationship, you should love and take care of your partner EVERYDAY, not just one day of the calendar year. Even Christmas is commercialized, but it at least has an important meaning behind it (both from a religious POV and not religious). It’s bad enough having to see couples in a relationship on a daily basis, it hurts me. But an entire day ALL ABOUT IT??? At Kroger, they make everything a big deal. All it is for the corporation is about money, just like everything else. They want me there to help…

Title says it all really. We talk so much shit about bad working environments (which i can certainly empathize with) but personally, i am willing to work harder if it means I benefit accordingly. I mean, is it all really this awful? Is there really no good place to work? Alternately, are there any places that offer what YOU value, be it paid vacation, good work life balance, low stress or something else I'm missing? I'd love to hear your thoughts.