Antiwork

Not much more than the title. Thoughts? I'm kind of an introvert and because of a medical condition I have to get up and go to the bathroom a lot or sometimes be shirtless with an ice pack on. At least no where I've been has forced people to be on camera, but it's definitely encouraged. It makes me feel uncomfortable. There may also be something subconscious going on. I'm a computer programmer and I'm old enough to know when being a nerd was a really rough thing not something almost celebrated. It feels like high school when all the popular kids wanted to talk and do something social or sit in a circle or play instead of actually study and learn and I think I have issues from that or something.

And I include here any variant of this. Having to pay to park to come do a job I could do from home is adding insult to injury. Asking for anything other than a style of clothing (uniforms, for example) is just plain employee abuse. Where I am right now, where driving to work is mandatory (public transport is underdeveloped), they cannot find me a parking, so for a year or two (or more who knows), I have to pay almost $10 a day for parking, because they sold their parking lot to a private firm. It's a dollar an hour pay cut. How idiotic is that? “no one wants to work” my @$$

I live in the US, any small companies offer childcare assistance or provide childcare up to pre-k? I’d totally relocate to have that as a benefit.

I have two part-time jobs and one unpaid position with my university. I calculated my hours this morning and I’m working 45.25 hours this week, including the 6 unpaid hours I put in at my school. I’m a full time student, a junior trying my best to get into the field I want. I’m supporting myself in all regards. There’s nothing else to this story other than I’m tired, burnt out, and already sick of working and I’m barely 20. I know so many people have it worse than me, but I wish it didn’t have to be this way for us.

In our pre contract negotiations meeting I mentioned about getting a 30 hour workweek for $30 an hour for our work. Somebody told me that with our increase in productivity over the last several years we should only be working 20 hours a week. Right now we get paid $20/hour for 40 hours a week so I’m going to push for $40/hour for 20 hours a week. I’ll be ok with 24 hours a week but this is all about planting the seed. We’re making record profits, and there is no reason why we shouldn’t also be sharing in that. Right now I’d be thrilled for 32 hours a week. Most of the people are only really productive for half their shift anyways so with a 40 hour workweek they’re basically paying us to be unproductive for half our shift and those who actually work non-stop for their 40 hours…

I’m 20 years old. I had been working 40+ hours a week since I graduated high school and was working after school shifts for my junior and senior year. My job wasn’t terrible by any means, just extremely tiring and repetitive. I starting feeling quite depressed after a while and felt like my life was just being consumed by work. I never had any motivation to do anything on my free time because I was too exhausted from my job. I managed to save up a pretty good amount of money and am now able to take the winter off. In the past month I’ve gained my motivation back, started going to the gym 4 days a week, been able to catch up on chores around the house, spending time with friends and family, and finding time for hobbies I love and didn’t have time for. It’s truly been amazing.…