Antiwork

I think, in a world where one doesn't need to work in order to survive and get basic human necessities, the toxicity of work or toxicity of general human nature will reduce drastically, and even crime rates are gonna go downhill. Let's assume a world, where everyone irrespective of their age, religion, gender, nationality, work basically irrespective of everything (even if they work or not, it doesn't matter), they get the following facilities for free: 1.Roof/ a place to sleep, stay warm and cozy and have their private space. Free medical services for any illness. Free food (like let's say 3 times a day and 2 snacks a day). Free clothing, footwear etc… (Will have certain limits). Free Education. And 100% transparency about government spending. Free knowledge resources (like free internet, free access to computer to access the knowledge etc…) Equal justice to everyone, transparent justice system. Every financial aspect…

Extremely triggered. Luckily I’m starting a new, much better paid job after next week a reputable company. In the meantime I’m considering just quitting early after my day ends tomorrow. For context, high output Lead graphic designer running a creative team of 5 people. Handling interviews, Onboarding staff and training them… coaching people etc. So pissed. Basically asked my boss for a performance bonus as a reason to close out my tenure strong. I’d only lose $400 by quitting early and would gain a free week of vacation to mentally relax before the new job. Let’s see what happens , we are meeting tomorrow end of day to discuss this pay inequity.

A lot of people here seem to shot about raising the minimum wage, and I agree, to a degree. I am against raising it on a federal level though and if anything lowering it on a federal level (I’ll explain later. If we raise the whole thing up from the bottom it’s not going to fix our problems. I think we need to look at the state and local levels and push for change there. We are a large country a livable (or better off, comfortable) wage is going to vary between states and within them, between cities, towns, and counties. Very large cities (SF, philly, NYC) have a much hire cost of living than a farm town out in the middle of nowhere so a $20 MW (I’ll use this as minimum wage to safe space) ($20 is just used as an example because it’s a nice round number)…

I’m sitting here dreading my return to work and I’m so pissed. Anytime I try to tell anyone about it, they either tell me I’m causing my own problem or that I should be thankful for a job that has given me 2 months paid paternity. I have 2 bachelors degrees (Communications and Spanish) and I’m halfway through a masters program (strategic comm and media) and all I want is a job that isn’t frontline retail. There’s nothing wrong with retail but it’s so emotionally draining on me. I can’t stand going day in and day out babysitting Karena and Kens acting like tantrum throwing babies in public and simultaneously dealing with the mistreatment dealt by management and every other department that loves to just shit on retail. But even in this job market no one will give me a chance. Meanwhile, the longer I stay at this retail job,…

I work for a company that bills itself as very employee-oriented. It has sold itself that way since it’s inception. Last year one of our offices and most of that office’s employees were evacuated due to a forest fire. Some of my coworkers neighbourhoods were decimated. Nobody received any additional time off for the evacuation. The company made remarks at staff meetings about being “strong” and that everybody was “in their thoughts.” It rang so hollow in the face of what everybody experienced. These people almost lost everything. They were terrified and driven from their homes. And this was as Good Company. They give no f*cks about us.