Antiwork

I used to work for the largest videogame retailer in the UK (I'm sure you can all guess who). In around 2008, give or take a year, everyone in our head office received an email stating everyone's annual pay. This email was sent by the newish Commercial Director and it led to some excitable, angered and embarrassed conversations. People doing pretty much the same role having differences of 10k. Recent inexperienced hires either getting a sweet wage because of pre-employment friendships or getting below market rate as unknowns who need to prove they deserve the opportunity. It was my first experience at truly seeing such wage equality. I mean, I used to think (incorrectly), “ok, those in shops are doing a less skilled job, of course Head Office deserve the big bucks” but on that day, I saw that if they can pay you fuck all, they will do. In…

From schools to credit scores, to felonies it's all predicated on the assumption that the individual will not change and will need to “qualify” certain conditions to be “considered” for that loan/job position/college. Had bad grades in highschool due to ADHD or depression? A period of your life where you were still a child? Too bad only community college and military or trades, on your record forever. Bad spending habits? Meh you'll never change we'll reward you to get into debt with more debt, make you an indebted slave. Committed a crime when you were a young stupid teenager? Sorry caveman go work outside, I will not trust you inside my stor, criminal. It's all bullshit! It makes my blood boil, it goes against the human Nature and spirit. In the end it's one giant hellish entity being fueled by countless human lives. If God is real and there is…

I’m a welder and I started working for a company through a temp agency. The deal was after 90 days I would be hired on and given benefits. Of course 90 days has passed and I continually had to remind hr and my supervisors to begin the hiring process. They gave me an application to fill out “just to get my information” and when I handed it in, they said it would take 3-4 weeks to process it. Someone that they hired directly, who started the same day I did, didn’t have to wait 3-4 weeks to be hired. And received benefits upon starting. I was also told that I have to go through another probationary period of 90 days after being hired on to receive benefits. I wouldn’t have taken this job if I was made aware of the fact it would take a total of 7 months to…

Getting $14 an hour to spend 44 hours a week with severely mentally disabled adults. Everyday someone has a blowout, everyday I’m preforming CNA duties and I’m not being financially compensated. I love my job, the work is super rewarding, but fucking pay me fairly. Yesterday I got shit on twice and had to stop a 50 year old from blinding their only good eye. It’s mentally taxing. It’s physically exhausting and it’s morally demeaning that I’m told to do all of this for such little pay. Edit: I’m in Utah and CNA’s average $16 an hour here. The work I find rewarding is all on a behavioral level. I enjoy working one on one with these clients and working through their cognitive blocks. I do not enjoy changing adult briefs and showering them. So a formal CNA education has not nor will every appeal to me. Mad fucking respect…

Pretty much title. I’ve done this in the past when I didn’t have access to a computer at home and taken a major step forward. I will warn, that unsupervised access to a computer at an hourly wage job is getting rarer. Make sure you’re 100% okay with losing your current job if you start doing this.

Called my boss before my first shift to clarify my wage. Turns out I was going to earn half what I was supposed to. So I quit and listened to him throw a fit over the phone.