Antiwork

I recently missed 3 weeks of work due to a major surgery. All was well and my boss was very understanding. On my first day back my boss and my one other coworker were very relieved because they said it was crazy hectic taking on my massive workload and they hope I don’t even have to miss again. 1 day later I’m called into a meeting and was told I will now be responsible for literally half of my coworkers workload on top of mine because she was so stressed while I was out and couldn’t handle it. I was shocked and didn’t know what to say so I stupidly agreed to it. Now I’m so overwhelmed I cry at my desk almost everyday. My boss does nothing but scrolls Facebook all day. Literally. I am seriously considering quitting after being here for almost 6 years. This doesn’t even make…

one thing I've noticed is that is really hard to explain people how salaries aren't the “horrible weight in the neck of our benevolent owners” and instead is the other way around. ​ so, I thought, what if we could make a game-ish visualization showing a company making a product and calculating what the work of each person contributes to the earnings. (and what their mental and physical state affects the whole, maybe?) ​ I mean, could as well be a full fledged factory simulator with that feature, what matters is to dispel the ideas that workers are a net weight on an operation instead of the very heart of it, and also the idea that raising salaries would create this horrible inflation pundits tend to preach about. ​ and it needs to be interactive, because people gets the idea better by trying things instead of being put on a…

I'm job hunting right now and would like some advice for answering the question, “Why are you leaving your current job?” I have a few, like the lack of room for growth, but I worry if I bring some things up, like the health benefits having changed, potential employers might worry I'll jump ship too easily. I interview pretty well, but answering this question wrong can make me seem like a liability.

“What we need is not only to modify the system of production but to get out of it altogether. We should remember that this idea of framing everything in terms of the economy is a new thing in human history. The pandemic has shown us the economy is a very narrow and limited way of organising life and deciding who is important and who is not important. (…) If I could change one thing, it would be to get out of the system of production and instead build a political ecology.” Cit. By Bruno Latour. I don't know how many people knew him, but a few days ago we lost a great person who was devoted to IMHO the true cause of this subreddit. Let us never forget his words and keep fighting for worker's rights!