Antiwork

Title. I’m an i-9 worker. I work in construction. My former employer fired me because I don’t want to work weekends. After leaving me in charge of a 250k job I asked for a raise. He showed up to this particular job a grand total of 3 times. That was over a month ago. Well this morning he says, “josh”. (he is the owner of the company I subcontract for.) Isn’t happy because some work didn’t get done over the weekend. I responded that after some bills I paid I had a total of $10 in my account. He started getting mad when he said I don’t want to work anymore. No I don’t want to work weekends anymore. I want to spend it with my wife and kids, sue me. I told him how much I’m carrying the squad he doesn’t even leave his house on Thursday’s and Friday’s…

So maybe this is just the result of doom scrolling but with everything happening in the world right now, when is the breaking point? When is the worker revolution coming, if ever? Do you think it's worse than it's ever been, or not really?

I took a pretty sudden break from my work about two weeks ago. I was experiencing major burn out and depression. Overworked, underpaid, and burnt out.. and a coward when it comes to telling people.. I know my poor communication skills are my fault, but I felt like maybe I could come back to work if I was working only part time; I explained to my boss yesterday that I was burnt out and depressed and that I needed time to rest. And he said he's always understanding of when we need rest, I just need to be able to communicate. I thought that was a great response! I said I was sorry for the way that I left and asked if I could come back part time, because I'm still burnt out, and he was thrilled to have me back! (Made employee of the month before even finishing my…

Growing up I’d hear that you don’t want to be a garbage man, but now it seems like the only careers “society” pushes now are entrepreneurs, influencers and finance. You can’t tell a generation of people that nurses are glorified butt wipers and not be surprised when there’s a shortage of workers, same goes for teachers. We have devalued and unprofessionalized so many careers while only glorifying a few. Kids used to want to be astronauts what kid wants be an astronaut nowadays.