Antiwork

So I am a caretaker, I really enjoy what I do and the location that I work at. The home I work in is clean, well organized and the clients are rather happy with how they are cared for and treated. This last week though we have started to have a large shadow on the horizon. ​ Warning: Genitals mentioned We have a client at another home who they are attempting to move out and into our home, there are some issues staff has and some questions but as our team lead brought up our grievances she was brushed off and it was implied to her that she was the one who has the issues and was pinning them on us. She has invited management to come talk to staff directly and I am trying to come up with an effective list of concerns and grievances I have. The issue…

on the bus back a Counselor said if there is any LIT in the back me and Jordan raised our hands and some LIT said “Oh it's the worst ones” “we need to sit back there” I am not bothered by it but just realizing how judging people are as LIT I had counselors come up to me and say you need a raise I am not there for the paycheck like ALL of the others are I am there to make sure kids have fun and I got kids who want to hang out with me during the day I let them use my phone on the bus because it makes them happy it entertains then like the others don't do I have fetched and took kids to places like bathrooms and stuff more than they could in 5 months There are counselors who skip the other LIT to…

Today, the GM of my fast casual restaurant job decided to give the rest of the managers whistles to help “train” everyone better. Some were also given stopwatches to time employees. It's a frigging nightmare come true. The GM thinks it's a “fun” way to get everyone to do their job better. They don't see how everyone will end up quitting. My whole night, all I heard was the whistle going off, I swear, I'll hear it in my sleep.

Let me explain. I [23 YRS OLD M] It wasn't like this before, i would be happy to go to work or just be okay with it. Even working in the toughest of jobs 8/9 hour long shifts and somehow being happy getting paid $715 AUD after tax working 5 days a week. At the beginning nor end of each of those days i was simply happy. One day, after working for the company for almost 2 years, i decided to leave and find another job to simply try something new. One job after another i seem to always quit sooner than i thought, even leaving the job as soon as a week has passed by. Regardless if the job was do-able or not or even easy enough, i always had this anxiety for no reason. the anxiety of messing up work, even the anxiety for working in a job…

It’s a small business and I’d loved working for them so far so it was pretty out of left field when I got a text saying “if we fire her we can hire an actual fucking esthetician soon”. Currently only the owners are working at the store location I work at other than me, there is no phone or internet (so I can’t do half my job duties), and they haven’t hired any others for this location. She then apologized and said the other owner would discuss the email with me tomorrow and that a family member had passed and she’s in a negative headspace.

If you delve into what anti work is about, it is advocating the removal of the working model as the premise is we should not have to waste our lives working to make another wealthy. The sub roots are closely tied with anarchism and the sidenote provide a plethora of information about why we shouldn't have to work. However as this sub has grown thanks to a few major articles latching onto this message, the sentiment of most new comers has shifter the sub into a workers rights sub. The highly popular sub for workers rights is r/workreform, which covers the recent sentiment and best suites 95% of content posted recently. How do we reimplement the core message of this sub to make it what it once was, or is it a losing battle? Do we need to create a new antiwork sub and let r/workreform share their message here…

I started a new job that paid $20k more than my last job. I was really excited because I could get ahead of my bills/debt. I got a paycheck today, and granted, it was missing 2 days where I was in the hospital/sick, but they took over $600 in taxes out. I get why but damn. It sucks.

My year review is coming up, and I want to ask for $26, a 6$ increase from what I'm getting paid now. I've asked for raises before and gotten them, but I checked on Payscale and the website said I am getting paid more than any other person in my position with my credentials. That really took away the wind in my sails, and now I'm thinking of just asking for 24$ instead.

In October 2021, I applied for a job in Germany. The interview went well and I was offered a job. I was to start this summer, and I did. They offered me a relocation bonus (payable with the first month's salary) since I had to move from a third world country to Frankfurt. Now that I am here and I have started, they told me that for the relocation bonus to be given to me, I need to give them one of the four documents (Rent Contract ; TV bill ; Phone bill ; Internet bill), plus the documents need to be issued within 15 calendar days before or after my interview (October 2021). Now tell me, why did they do this. I am just speechless. 9+ months have passed and I'm some 1500 miles away from home. Such an arbitrary rule which seems made only for me to not…