Antiwork

I work for a multibillion dollar international company. Our services are in high demand. We have hundreds of locations inside an even larger company. Our lease dictates our hours and then some. We’ve always had a hiring shortage, company wanted us to hire those with experience. Then that changed to, oh well the company only wants “licensed individuals,” which put us in competition with everyone else for staff. I’m licensed, my team is licensed, you basically cannot work in this field in CA without one- or run the business. Anywho, so COVID has changed the way we do business. Keep in mind we’re critically low staffed already. We’ve had call outs. People have been sick, some can’t work at all, some have chosen to just quit. Sometimes we’ve had to close up shop altogether for a day, or reduce hours because staffing is impossible. Some locations closed 2 hours early…

If everyone on the planet decided to no longer work starting tomorrow what would our world look like a year from then?

Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know how to explain how we were able to…

My SO hasn’t worked for a year now (most likely to “take a stand” against unfair wages, workplace environments, etc.) which is understandable given the current situation in the US, but I’m getting so fed up with being the only one working and having to pay for everything while he just sits and does nothing to help us get by financially or help prepare for the future. I don’t know how to tackle this problem. All I know is I’m exhausted, and this behavior has become a huge turn off.

I once had a place contact everywhere I worked in the last 15 years, verify my college, I had to take a drug test, get a physical exam, and take a “logic test” in an interview before I was hired (for an office job) I ended up leaving after 2 weeks. lol