Antiwork

As it has been said uncountable times, labor conditions and progress, like all meaningful improvements for worker, are achieved through demonstrations. These demonstrations are often recipients of violence from the state or state-sanctioned actors. By joining/forming relationships with organizations in your community with aligned beliefs and goals, outside of your workplace, you can draw support, and provide support, for others. Many of these groups have experience with demonstrating, counter-demonstrating and protecting their comrades when things get physical. Providing for members of your community, whether ideologically aligned or not, with necessities (food, clothing, blankets, toiletries, etc), monetary relief in tough situations, volunteering and offering support for anything that can aid those in need, prison abolition, solidarity with tenets organizations, etc. are invaluable as forms of spreading our values, in addition to helping those in need. Unionization, strikes, support strikes outside of your own workplace and industry, are all of the utmost…

But remember they need you more than we need them. It is time to be unionized.

What countries or regions have you all been to where the most overtime put in is some kind of alpha dog trump card? I'm all for pride in work, but at least in Central New York, where I'm from, it seemingly doesn't matter what's produced or at a certain efficiency. It's just hours, and look how broken my body is from this job. It's a very caustic mindset and I'm just wondering if it's a phenomenon globally or a very American thing. Or even just regional…

I've been working in aviation since 2011, and in this specific airline since January 2022. After being “remotely-managed”, airline hired a local. My new boss is infamous in our airport for working for 10+ airlines / handling companies during his 20 year career because he keeps getting fired, as well as being an asshole in general. Guess he got a super good resume of having 20 years of experience in aviation working for multiple airlines. Anyway, dude shows up for maybe an hour every 2-3 days, asks a bunch of questions about what I do and disappears, only to send me passive-aggressive emails at 9pm, DEMANDING I'll explain my work routine. Sending URGENT emails on the days he knows I'm off etc. A few weeks passed, he never replies about my issues with overtime, workplace safety, etc. Tried contacting his manager but she is avoiding me as well. He decided…

I occasionally read through my rights to brush up. Being inspired by something on this sub I went to pull up the https://apps.nlrb.gov/wwwm/index.htm National Labor Relations Board website and their site is down? What’s up with this? A lot of us here reference this site so I’m not keen on it being down at the moment. Hopefully it comes back soon

I emailed HR (the DIRECTOR did this) due to a manager that was making it really, really hard to get 2 weeks UNPAID time off for a cousins wedding abroad. I needed a confirmation before a certain date and she was completely ignoring me. Sometimes it took weeks for a simple one word reply. I confided in HR, explaining the situation, the urgency in a decision, and they basically just forwarded her the email. She responded ASAP with a passive aggressive reply saying something like “you NEVER asked me for time off etc etc”. Are you serious? So she told me to make a request in dayforce. I immediately did. Days go by, still in pending status. I’m losing my marbles because time is running and my cousin needs to know if i can go to save my spot, i have the buy the ticket, living arrangements, etc. Anyway, I…

No, YOU can't. Don't lump me in with your incompetence

You do not owe your employer for “giving” you a job. They did not create a position for you out of the goodness of their heart. They deemed a set of tasks essential to the continued functioning/profitability of their business, and needed someone to handle those tasks. You are not being given charity and you aren't being done a favor, you are a professional keeping their organization functioning. You do not owe your employer for training you. If there are specialized systems or procedures at a job that your employer needs you to know in order to function within your hired role, then that training is a time/resource investment that they chose to make. You do not owe them compensation in any form for the time they chose to invest in you. You do not owe your employer your life. You are not lazy or entitled for taking vacation time.…