Antiwork

I really love the restaurant and bar that I work but my boss is being very unreasonable. I have been the assistant manager of this restaurant for 5 years and I haven’t been acting general manager for 2 years. Since coming out of lockdown I been dedicating myself opening through being understaffed doing 50 – 60 hour weeks trying to keep the doors open. Few weeks ago I worked myself to collapse and an ambulance was called and I went to hospital. I’ve given everything to this place. Missed important events with my wife, any of my free time to work on what I want and all work life balance. I was sick last week due to Covid and needed a week off. Obviously I didn’t leave everything in a state I wanted to and got heaps of grief from my boss. Pretty much every time I ask for tittle…

Can't find the actual meme so this will have to do. “You are not a capitalist. You are an exploited worker with Stockholm Syndrome.” That is all.

I’m new to Reddit and loving it, and of course there’s a group like this… I work to live btw, I don’t live to work…. Feel real bad for some ppl sometimes.. I love the learning curves,experiences and stories/bonds u gain from a job… but at the same time..can be ruff, and always worse for someone else.. GodSpeed on the way home WorkForce!

Every news outlet, and even this subreddit is saying that many people are quitting? I’m like hell yeah let’s go! But how do we pay for shit? I just want to spend time with my loved ones and being at work is so draining, and if I want to be healthy I have to go to bed at a certain time so I can get 8 hours, gotta go to the gym, make food, get ready for the next day and have little time to do what I want. And it makes me sad. It makes me want to risk my health and say fuck it and just go all out and not care and just do what I want. Is it smart in the long run? Probably not. But I don’t want work to take a huge portion of mine or anyone’s life. I know a lot of people…

My thoughts “ok so I busted my ass all year and took the time to fill out my review, line by line, proving I went above and beyond and saved the company over 60k in process improvements (all proven on paper) while everyone else just filled in the dots all the way down the middle with zero comments and zero fucks all year and we're all deserving of the same raise?!”. I fought for a larger raise and was told I did what was expected of me because I operate at an A level while the other people in my department did what was expected of them because they operate at a C level so it justifies 100% to the company why we all get the same raise. I have been sitting on my phone 20hrs a week ever since because I have an office to myself and no manager…

My company refused to give me a cost of living raise this year and last year. So I started doing this a few months. do as little work as you can possibly can do everyday. take 3x as much time for everything. overestimate, double it and then add a buffer if you get done sooner then just waste all the time until you have met the estimate. take long lunch breaks take breaks for water setup “doctors appointments” and “dentist appointments”. Do the same for your family. “I have to run an errand” “I have to take my dog to the vet” “My cat died last night” dont be the best, work only as much as the lowest performing person on your team always ask for a raise – every time you boss wants to talk ask about the raise. Then follow up. Then ask whats going on with it.…

Had evaluations at work today. I’m sure you all can guess how that went, and I’ve decided it’s time to start outlining a plan to escape the rat race in the foreseeable future. I’ve seen posts on here where people talk about quitting their job and moving away. I am curious as to how you went through the process and especially interested in where you chose to go to. Any other advice for following through with your plan would be greatly appreciated.