Antiwork

Hi, I started my first full time position in an IT Business department of a big company two months ago. I'm mostly in office since this is my 'learning' period. I would have no complaints if I would actually learn something but what I usually learn is how to prepare a report (we have bunch of reports nobody actually reads) on MS Excel or prepare a presentation that looks like any other one. Anyways, my productive period is usually 2 hours then I got 6 hours completely free. Normally I don't care this is such a nice thing but in order not to get any complaints I have to look busy. I literally read everything on the department's website 100 times. The only thing worse than work is pretending to be busy. If I would work in these 6 hours that would be still okay to me, since I feel…

Disclaimer: I am french, we do pay our food service staff a living wage, tip is entirely optional and most of the time anectodical in their week revenues. When I go to the US, I always tip 20%, regardless of service quality. So. As title says. Tipping culture is disgusting. As a french dude, it is something that actually irritate me A LOT. I hate going to the restaurant in the US, not because I do not want to tip, but because I can not stand any longer the obsecuious and sugar coated mask every waiter have to pull when they speak to me. Doing service in the food industry in the US is a fucking job as an actor/actress. You are expected to be always nice and friendly, and to be on top of your game every day otherwise you would not receive a decent tip. Clients are judging…

I've recently seen this critique from some people that while they like and agree with this sub they feel like we just sit around complaining without much if any clear idea how to change that. Like is there some way how this sub is also being active irl. Like protests? Unionization? Anything. The most i see is people quitting and stuff like that which is of course sth, but it's also rather sporadic and not necessarily driven by here. Tldr: Do we have any real plan how to achieve anti work.

I’ve heard we in America (maybe globally idk) are on the brink of a recession, and that a lot of companies are starting to shore up their labor pool. It’s so crazy to me that in the span of a few months the job market has gone from “desperately hiring” to “sorry, you don’t qualify”. Just for some context, my fiancée applied to Costco as a front end assistant for the prepared foods department. She has worked in customer service/food service for many years, and even took on supervisor positions in some jobs. Everything was looking good from the interviews, and she even asked during her last interview “if there was anything on or missing from her resume that would indicate she is not a good fit for the position”. The interviewer said “no, everything looks good.” Why, then would she be denied the position the next day? There were…