Antiwork

Tldr at bottom. I mentioned this in a comment and people seemed interested so I thought I’d give it its own post. This happened a number of years ago, I was working retail for one of the biggest supermarkets around. My grandmother was late stages of dementia, and we were told to expect the worst to happen in the next few hours. So I called in to work that morning and said I was going to take time off that day to go and spend time with her. If I was ever going to call in sick, I’d make sure I did it before this manager started work, as he wouldn’t take no for an answer. I once got a hernia from work and he flat out refused to let me go to the hospital. Suggesting a glass of water and a 5 minute break would fix my issue. Anyway,…

I’ve been with this company for almost 4 years. I’m a top performer and CEO has even said I’m “the best tech they’ve ever had” yet I’m still making less than the old lazy/complacent techs just because they’ve been here 25-30 years… In January they raised our shop rates 30% due to inflation etc. So I asked management if they were planning on giving us employees any cost of living adjustments. CEOs response was that cost of living/inflation is all taken into account during our yearly performance review – which my last one was 50 cents or 2.5% raise. Fucking joke!! He said that inflation is not his fault and we’re lucky to be employed because they’re thinking about laying people off. I’ve already been looking for a better job, but I just wish I already had something lined up to call his bluff and say “I’ll make it easy…

I'm a 28 year old privileged guy, my parents paid for college and right after I graduated my dad passed away, he left me a property that I rent out and it allows me to live in an apartment with roommates and pay for all the stuff that i need, I usually spend my days working out, reading, playing videogames and sleeping a lot. When the antiwork girl held that interview with fox news I thought to myself 'wow she's such a loser, i don't wanna be like that' so I began job hunting and I finally found one! I'm gonna be a data analyst, work salary, healthcare is paid by the employer, I get 10 paid vacation days a year, get paid a 3-month salary bonus every year and will be working from 7:30am to 5:30 pm with one hour and 15 minute lunch. It's being really mentally tough…

I'm a firm believer that shit needs to change. Costs are soaring beyond our reach and we have boots to our throats, but it isn't just the employers and companies to blame; I don't feel represented by my government anymore. We've all heard talk about the great resignation, strikes and planned walk-outs, but I don't believe that's feasible for the average American. We're already in debt, we can't afford to stop working, go hungry and homeless. So I offer a hypothetical. What if we stopped paying income tax to incite change? I know it's realistically tax fraud, but what if as many of us as possible claimed 9 and refused to file until we felt represented? Could the IRS realistically go after that many Americans? The government is ultimately what's allowing employers take advantage of us to such a degree. What's stopping us from having a new age Boston Tea…

How many single dads out there are at a job they are unhappy at and unable to change it because they are shoe horned into paying support and if they don’t pay they fear the consequences? I watched my x quit her job and do whatever made her happy. I was denied more time with my child because I didn’t have a flexible schedule because of work. The standards were very one sided in the friend of the court system and that shook me.

Like i said. We have grown up or always existed in this insane situation. I am probably one of a handful that still receive a pension for my time, but due to the practices of large corporations since the late 70's early 80's there is no way to accumulate wealth in order to retire in an orderly fashion. We are expected to work well into our 60's and hope that the elite have made us a pittance to live due to 401k or roth IRA's. Now is the time to rise up and evict the elite from Washington to show them that the status quo of the past 40 to 60 years they have been in office, does not work for the populace. Come together as US citizens and vote out the chaff to create a better world in our future or god help our children, Condemned to indentured servitude.

I am, fortunately, doing well, but I truly empathize with people in this subreddit. ​ Assholes of the world take advantage of good natured people; most people here are good natured and are thus often taken advantage off. ​ It seems as though there is a “rage-quit” story here every day. Some rude / disrespectful low/middle management type says / does something completely out of line and then the anti-work redditor rage-quits and for the life of me, I can't figure out why. ​ What should you do? Quit, but don't tell anyone. Let them believe you're coming in. Let them think that you're almost there, that your car broke down, etc. Take FMLA time. Use every possible excuse in the book. Document document document. And then when they fire you for legal abscences, file complaints with the state labor boards….