Antiwork

The title is pretty self explanatory, last week I just got fired for talking to fast. To me it’s total bullshit. I’ve only worked there for 3 months, I recently finished college thought I found myself a good starter job and then this happens. Honestly just what the fuck is my life at this point.

At my company, every four years we get a new contract. Our negotiations begin next year and our local union representative has been making an effort to get things moving early this time around. She has asked us if there's anything to add that we want from these negotiations. What would be some good suggestions to make in our new contract? A few obvious things already mentioned are: 1. Higher wages. 2. Better medical coverage, specifically on pharmaceutical services. 3. Sick days being added.

I am glad my first college job taught me to be lazy – it keeps me super young. I have yet to stress or work a day in my life. I’m 24. I have always done school part time or less. Instead of taking out debt I did college class by class. I’ve legit never “been on my grind” and my looks and health show it. Don’t “be on your grind.” It’s better for your health. If you died, your work would replace you in a few days and move on with buisness as usual. Are you seriously going to give up your health to a job ? My rule is my life can’t be more than 50% “busy.” I relax every single day. At work I’m not busy. After doing maybe 2 hours of schoolwork a day MAX, I’m not busy. You should relax too.

This is in Florida, obviously.

The job is not even related to health . They said that it’s for “compliance” . At least more than 3 companies told me this . And all these are fully remote work . Is this some form of control they want for us ?

Morning all, I’ll keep it short. Work for a decent sized public company. We’re required to (and I was hired knowing this) to be in-office for 2 days of the week. I’ve been doing this for a little bit now. My work can be completely done remote. The days that I go in, there’s no more than 20 people in office at a time, and only 1 or 2 are coworkers. I have never had an in-person meeting with a single person on my team at the office. What are options that I have to attempt to not go in with HR? It’s not the fact of being in-office, it’s the 90 minute commute and $44 per day parking that’s killing me.

It used to be that even the companies that seldom had mass layoffs, still, for organizational or other purposes had to let workers go. In good times, people were treated with decency & respect. Given notice that their job was going away, given severance packages and depending on age the ability to retire with your pension. Post-pandemic the thin veil of deceit that created the illusion of corporate work equating bro modern day slavery. The only difference is you get decide which auction block advertise yourself for sell via of an application and an interview. You may not realize the list is longer than you think until you sit and add it up. What other parallels can be drawn between work (corporate or other) as modern day slavery? I went first…