Antiwork

Do you consider your job a career? How do you “get” a career? What do you even consider a career?

I've wanted to write this for a while as I see a lot of people writing that they measure their rise in pay in percentages. This is one of the most successful slight-of-hand from the upper classes ever. Making the people measure their rise in pay in percentages is in my opinion the most devious weapon against the working class ever invented.Percentage adjustments is the biggest reason for salary inequality as I see it. If you make 50k a year and your colleague makes 100k a year an you both get a 5% pay rise, that means that you get a 2,5k rise in pay, while your colleague gets a 5k pay rise. This is effectually increasing the pay gap between the emplyees. There is no way ever that the lowest payed employee will ever reach up to the other employee. And even when counting the COL you must count…

If something is 14 hours of work and you want me to do it in a 7 hour shift, I can't keep showing up. Did a cleaning for a lady who put so many things on the TO DO list that I can't even finish it within the shift.

Thought you guys might like this one as I just dealt with the same infection and emergency, but luckily my new employer was understanding. However, when I was 19, I had an employer demand from me a doctors note for the only time I called in. I was in the process of being hooked up to an IV while I got yelled at on the phone by said boss. My neck lymph nodes were bulging so much I couldn’t breathe through my airways due to an infection, so this was a very real emergency. I provided the note when all was said and done and ended up getting written up anyways despite the promise not to do so with a doctors note handy. $14k ER bill, and was making $7.35 an hour at the time. Was the worst time of my life. There are employers out there who give a…

The state of Minnesota has a $17.6 billion budget surplus. The governor has proposed sending out checks of $1,000 per adult to Minnesotans.

You all are sad and pathetic. From the posts I've seen over the past couple months you all complain about shitty job positions you have put yourself in, low pay from Horrible jobs, and you all complain about anything you can. You complain about not getting $20 an hour and 4 weeks of sick days from a dead end office job . If you weren't so braindead then you would realize that working under shitty management gives shitty rewards. You are all so lazy and complain about anything you want. Like I'm 16 and manage school, swim practice, and school and I never complain cause I know I can remove myself from my job if I want to focus on school or whatnot. . And speaking of work, I NEVER complain about work, I bust my ass working as a host but I love what I do, I'd never put…

Understand that to make any real headway with this movement you will have to accept that our goals are in direct contravention to those of the moneyed interests currently in control of our systems and organizations. They want more profit and have repeatedly shown through history and current events that they will commit systemic violence on every level to obtain that goal. Capitalism drove the Enclosure acts, forcing the people to work for the capitalists to subsidize their own existence. It drove the adoption of wage earning and labor exploitation. Capitalism didn't invent slavery, but it sure as hell took advantage of it to enrich the capitalists, turning it from a cultural and state practice to a systematic, privatized industry which continues to enrich the 'global north' at the expense of it's neighbors and it's own 'undesirables' to this very day. Capitalism didn't invent colonies, but it turned them from…