Antiwork

So far, I have tried this at local restaurants that have low hourly wages. Apply to basic entry level positions with minimal experience required Get an interview Immediately ask about pay Immediately get angry – not “get arrested” angry, but angry enough. Aim for that kind of angry where the other person doesn't quite know what to do but isn't going to freak out and ask you to immediately leave. Lambast the interviewer for as long as they will let you rant about why their starting pay should be higher. Repeat as often as you like with other companies. Will it result in anyone raising their starting pay they offer? Probably not, if it is just you. But it sure feels good to do. BONUS #1: intentionally target small business owners in your area that cry on social media about how “nO OnE WaNtS To WoRk” BONUS #2: coordinate with…

I just had another month of scraping by, all my bills paid and we're down to a single digit in the bank account again. All I've been able to do in my life is work blue collar jobs that pays ass and destroys body and soul. No good benefits, no hope of making more. And I read people getting to WFH, I see people on Reddit joke about how they spend their jobs browsing the site or pretending to work. I see videos of people traveling while on meetings, lounging in pools in the made up Zoom calls to give the the middle managers meaning. I hate how fucking jealous and angry I am at them for no reason they can be blamed for. Capitalism is exploitative, work is work is work and companies are out for no one but themselves and their profits, damn the workers. But to me,…

You probably will pay more in taxes that Jeff Bozo, Elon Musk, and every other billionaire in their entire lifetime before you even see a penny of that money.

It took me a long time to realize it, but I'm totally burnt out. I've busted my ass and tried incredibly hard to be a good boss (not owner, I'm a low level middle manager–more a supervisor TBH) and I've realized that the harder we work, the worse off we are in the long run. ​ We're currently short staffed and I keep telling my crew, “We're off when scheduled, win, lose, or draw,” because I've realized that this is like the Pentagon and the Budget. They'll intentionally blow their budget when the Fiscal Year is almost up so that it doesn't get cut, and I'm intentionally blowing the KPIs because we're not fucking staffed for it and I'm tired of doing three people's jobs and asking each of them to do three people's jobs too. ​ We'll do what we can with what we've got, but I'm not going…

I can't afford to “save” for the future. I have a racked up a bunch of CC debt just trying to finance my current life, how tf am I supposed to worry about 30 years later? The way capitalism is going, society is going to crumble by then anyway. Why bother Do you guys save anything?

I got this new job as a HR executive. Everything was better than my previous job, I get a better pay, get to work from home, and get to learn new skills that I've always wanted to learn. And for the first two months, I thought that all my superiors (supervisor, assistant manager, manager) were pretty good. But then things started to change entering the third month. Their politeness and niceness started to fade away. They started being strict, then harsh, and now autocratic. One thing I noticed in the work culture here is that they generally don't like open conversations between a superior and a subordinate. They never said it out loud, but I could tell from the way they react. So for example, when I'm confused about why they did something or viewed something in this way and asked them without sounding confrontational, they'd get very defensive. And…