Antiwork

Let's face it. Most of the work we do could easily be done in 20-25 hours a week or less. We spend to much of our lives working. A lot of it is wasted time.

The title really says it all. I was told he’d get me something for all the hard work I had done and now he’s not returning my emails.

Done to attract more people.

Any other US retail workers here have a break room that just consists of some folding tables and plastic chairs, one fridge that is usually filled by second shift and half the stuff in there is probably garbage anyway, one basic microwave and one coffee pot. No TV, no radio, cell phones are of course okay so everyone just sits there on their phones not talking and it makes the whole atmosphere depressing. Most managers roll their eyes when it's time for employees to take their breaks so I'm not surprised they try to make the break rooms as uncomfortable as possible.

I'm a social worker working at a small medical center. The medical center was purchased by a large corporate outfit last fall. We used to do all this alternative medicine stuff and we were very successful at healing the disease we specialize in. Many of my clients have had a miraculous recoveries. So this large corporate outfit buys us from the original owners. The new owners are all like we're not gonna change a thing and everything will be the same. But slowly they've been changing the hours and the program structure and changing everything. More importantly one of the new staff who is from corporate left their email account open. One of the old staff hopped on the email thinking it was theirs and discovered that there was an email describing in detail their plan for turning us into just another McDonald's franchise. (Metaphorical speaking) Email described in detail…