Antiwork

So I've been lurking on this subreddit for a while, and reading many of these posts make me very upset with this system we have in which there is no ethical consumption. On top of that, the current set up requires us to work for money that we need in order to take care of the basics in life. So what do you do when you earn more than enough to cover those basics? What do you do when you have the house, the spouse, the kid, the dogs, the life you dreamed of as a kid who grew up poor? What do you do when you know that you have “made it”… but you know your co-workers earn 150% of what you do, doing the same job, with a similar level of work experience? Am I greedy for wanting to be compensated in an equitable way because I know…

I own a two family property currently housing my mother, brother, mother in law, sister in law. I charge below market rent so we are all benefiting from this arrangement. Do you all really hate landlords? I got into owning rental properties to one day not have to work for the “MAN”. I do everything I can to make my tenants happy and make it feel like it's fair exchange to all parties involved and I was shocked when I found this subreddit and saw all the distain for landlords here. My last tenants stayed in my unit until they were ready to buy a house. If you are against landlords what do you propose should be done for those who can't afford/qualify to buy a house? If you say government housing wouldn't that just make the government the landlord but isn't this sub anarchist? If you propose rent caps…

Are promotions earned? Does seniority matter? Does hard work matter? Truth is I can’t seem to corner anyone on any facts. Is there no jumping the line? Or is there no line? Do more senior employees deserve more respect or no?

Fuck work so much. Since covid started my life choices have really come to hit me in the face. I am looking down the barrel at loosing my 3rd family member since this all started. I have spent all of my adult years, over a decade, playing by the rules. I worked hard. I showed up on time, stayed late, I barely took vacation, I went back to school, I started over and hustled more because that's how you get where you need to be right? Well, now here I am with family dropping left and right and all I can think of is how I lost the time I could have spent with them, the conversations that we will never have, the alienation from my own family (because they live out of town), and the pain of not knowing how to be there for other grieving family members. I…

This is my second time posting here, and I feel I should preface this by saying I like my job. I’ve worked this job for almost 4 years, with a 3-year gap between the third and fourth year, so I’m loyal, if anything. There are three points I feel I should touch on, from my experience. 1.) I was essentially promised a managerial position, upon my return. The original store manager, who has since retired, wanted me to be able to be a shift manager (essentially a supervisor) by the time he retired. It hasn’t happened at all. I haven’t even been trained, or started training at all. It’s starting to feel like the worst empty promise I’ve ever had. 2.)Piss poor scheduling. Aside from needing to take the odd day off, because I was sick, I’ve only had two weekends off. One by request for my one year anniversary…

This is a long one so strap in bois. I was diagnosed with ADHD some years ago and have been taking medication for it for about four years now. I was very relieved to receive my diagnosis and medication because it felt like I could finally be on a level playing field as everyone else, and function like an actual adult. The thing is though, that my medication kills every part of me that is incompatible with being productive; parts of me that I love. The part of me that gets really excited and passionate about a thing that I love, the part of me that’s creative and also a little all over the place. On the one hand, I berate myself for having ADHD and not being able to “function properly”. But on the other hand I know that I am an extremely hard worker when it’s work that…