Antiwork

I work at 2 bars. At the tiki bar, I'm a bartender. The bar is new (opened in October of 2021) and is still catching its sea legs, but promising and fun. The cocktails are super creative and intricate. I'm pretty well-respected and am often delegated the responsibility by my boss and other bartenders of coming up with custom requests on the fly. I worked pretty hard over the pandemic lockdown to learn everything I could about mixology and cocktail crafting to raise my financial floor and get a job as a bartender. This bar is my first bartending gig and I'm absolutely crushing it. I'm the only bartender getting personal shoutouts in Yelp reviews and have never had a single drink I've improvised turned down or sent back. Hell, my mocktails receive rave reviews! I have even impressed my boss with a few menu proposals, with a couple being…

42, Canadian male. I lost 47% of my last pay check to various deductions.

And everyone should be entitled for two days sick leave every week.

You mean the two days a week they allow you to lick your wounds?

I graduated from University around 5 years ago with degree in Mechanical Engineering. Ever since I've been working in an engineering position for a supplier within the automotive industry. When I started the compensation seemed fair for a new graduate (~$63k/year + benefits). In my time there I've made significant contributions and some huge improvements in my department. The most significant being developing a software application to improve the way we process test data. This massively reduced the time and effort needed to process and summarize the data as well as made it possible to view and present data in ways that weren't possible before with the outdated application in use when I started. Meanwhile I have a coworker who started earlier in the same year (also right out of the same University, same degree, and working in the same department). I learned early on from him that his starting…

especially not the restaurant in this article! they don't pay a living wage and really don't care about employees. “Despite a myriad of challenges including high pollock prices, labor shortages, and a severe winter storm, Long John Silver’s boasted its strongest Lent sales in many years, an executive said in an interview with SeafoodSource. The Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.-based restaurant chain’s system-wide sales from Ash Wednesday through Easter averaged 20 percent higher than average Lent volumes in more than a decade. Good Friday (2 April) proved be the chain’s biggest sales day on record, as well as its highest Good Friday sales. The operator also had its biggest Easter Sunday sales on record, along with its biggest single sales week, from 15 March through 21 March.” If you call off on a lent Friday they literally threaten to FIRE you. They say we can't request off any Friday during lent. They don't pay…

I work on an Assembly line and our breaks are 12 minutes, 15 minutes, 12 minutes. It’s ridiculous we don’t even get at least a 30 minute lunch. Fuckers just want every second of profit .

so, I got comment response on a since deleted post earlier today. the subject was the inherent leftist roots of anti-work and the person I was interacting with seemed to be promoting the mind that we must tone police ourselves and play nice in order to grow the movement. I just wanna get this out there for all the die-hard liberals in this sub. the non-proliferation of of leftist ideals and policies in not the result of some fault of leftism (except maybe that we already play too nice). the hegemonic powers that be, usually some flavor of right-wing elitism, actively stamp out the proliferation of ideas, movements, ideals, and policies that would benefit the general masses. this is because, by the nature of a financial economy, wealth NECESSITATES poverty. if money is finite, in order for one to have more, some other must have less; furthermore, as the pursuit…