Antiwork

Yesterday while at the self checkout for the grocery store, a man approached me and asked if I could buy him some food because he didn't have any money. I thought about it and said sure. I sent him off to grab what he wanted while I kept scanning. The minimum wage workers saw this and, enforcing corporate policy, several of them tailed him around the store trying to get him to leave. When he got to the front, I scanned his items and nicely pushed him out the door so they wouldn't have to deal with him in the store anymore. Funny how in that moment, I was helping him, helping the workers, reducing the stigma of being poor in public, and stealing hundreds of dollars in groceries while they chased this man around for wanting $5 of food to eat. I'm white, he isn't, if that wasn't clear…

I know this is SUPER out there, but what if we just… taxed people in a way wherein they always get to keep a proportion of their income, but that proportion gets smaller and smaller as they make more and more money infinitely? ​ I understand this is highly theoretical, but if that sort of system was implemented in every country, and people *really* disdained others who attempted to misuse tax money and fucked over their countries wholesale as retaliation with sanctions, wouldn't there be a lot more to go around? ​ I understand that the counterplay to this would involve using Monero to hide income, but that could only get so far across a distributed network of employees, it'd get found out in practice every time if a company had x amount of employees or more. ​ So if every country beefed up their tax auditing departments and equipped…

​ To clarify, the day after thanksgiving I don't want to explicitly say where I work but I work for a huge global company with tens of thousands of employees and we don't have the day off Friday. matter of fact we only have 6 holidays in the whole year. I can go on and on with this rant and much more about it but it just gets me angry. I'd like to think that it's just my company but I'm starting to think that it's not, it's an industry-wide problem – compensation and vacation/holidays. In my city, we are in a building of 60+ floors and we are one of two companies in the entire building that is still “open for business” on Friday.

Hi folks. I guess this is just a rant. I work in a mid-size law firm as a legal assistant. It's 40 hours a week (usually more, though not encouraged because they don't want to have to pay overtime), and they recently received a “top places to work” designation in a local magazine. I will say I'm paid pretty well–I got a good raise last year, and I think it's because I work for one of the most difficult attorneys in the firm. I feel very much like I've sold my soul–she's a blowoff, everything is always last minute, and she's been through a bunch of other legal assistants because she's abusive. She doesn't openly rant and rave, like other attorneys I've worked with in the past, but she waits until the last minute so that you're forced to work late, is a micromanager, and does what she can to…

Original post (2) My job asked me to quit due to my disability : antiwork (reddit.com) It's been 2 months since I've posted my original post, so I thought I'd update everyone. For those 2 months It has been so frustrating, this company, who is the opposite of Lowes (don't want to say the business just in case), forced me to take a leave of absence then when my doctor sent a note saying the accommodations I need and saying that I can return to work, apparently it wasn't good enough. Shortly after making the original post, I filed a charge against them with the EEOC. We had an appointment at the beginning of December but due to my worsening physical/mental health and my disability I just gave up hope and told the mediator I wanted to drop the charges. I know some may say that was stupid, but I…