Antiwork

Yep, a whopping 2 percent. I worked non stop through the pandemic while most of their employees stayed home, worked 80+ hour weeks for 6 months straight. During the whole performance review I got nothing but positive feedback. Telling me how great of a job I do, whatever. I save this company literally hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly, I've been here for 5 years and they're just going to slap me in the face like that. I could honestly go in and drop a poop on my bosses desk right now. I'm fucking fuming. But hey, nobody wants to work right? Or is it the fact we are all just tired of being bent over and ripped a new one. 30 years ago, two people had sex and now I work 60 hour weeks just to “get by”. Good old American dream.

For me, a jarring aspect of the US is the pharmaceutical solution to performance and attention difficulties. Like yes, this person who is suffering and cannot concentrate on their daily tasks, needs to be medicated in order to maintain a ‘normal life.’ What is a normal life anyway? You sit in a car for 45 minutes to 1 hour each day, and then sit in your cubical or office for 8 hours a day, then you go home and sit numbing your brain as you are too exhausted to do anything else since you just fried your brain with blue lights, Fluorescent lights, and mindless corporate dribble. Why is someone who struggles with that lifestyle; a low performer, a distraction, antsy, annoying, inattentive? Corporations and the healthcare industrial complex, would rather give people literal amphetamines and ruin their long term brain function than adjust the working conditions so it’s more…

Does anyone else agree that there should be a pinned post on this sub that links users to useful articles/materials that help you organise/unionise etc. I know that it is a place for people to vent there frustrations but this should also be a space where we can help each other to fight back against our lot. Just a suggestion!

Some background information both me and my coworker who I'll refer to as Ω used to work for company x while I was working for company x. Company x lost the contract with our primary business partner and I ended up going to business y who got the contract. While other coworkers and I were negotiating wages with company y company y wanted to pay us less but by fighting tooth and nail we were able to get a small pay increase out of it. But everyone new world be getting less. Now Ω was forced out of company x by way of being told to quit or be fired. Turns out Ω is being paid a full $1 more than me. When I brought this up to my manager and requested a pay raise I was basically told ” We are looking at everyone's wages. Thank-you for bringing this…