Antiwork

I've been working factory and automotive jobs for my whole working life so far, but recently I haven't been able to get back into either field, so I ended up working as a personal shopper for a certain superstore chain. Running around a store picking stuff for people didn't sound too bad, other than an occasional question from a customer. The first day was okay, I actually enjoyed it. Day 3 they dropped the trainer, which was ok, but they pulled me into the dispersing area and had me running in the parking lot talking to customers and getting in their cars. I also work second shift, so it's pitch black for half my shift. This made me super uncomfortable for both my safety and anxiety. I'm still not sure what I'm doing in either area, but they won't give me a trainer. They also had me climb into moldy,…

Company cutting salaries during Covid and then making record profits and not returning the salary was my breaking point. I felt like the contract we made when I was hired was broken and when the rational for that break was completely backwards – more work less pay and more profits and not less work and less pay and less profits – trust was broken. I know that some would say I was naive to have trust to begin with, but you have to have trust for society to function. We are malfunctioning now…

I realized that hard work doesn’t really matter so much at many of the jobs I worked, maybe even all when I think about it. I’ve been the hardest worker at some of my jobs, but that didn’t mean I was the most respected or highest paid person in the building; it just meant I was the most foolish to think that I would make more money the more I worked. In actuality, the only place hard work matters in one’s house or personal life. If you work hard to improve yourself or your home, it will show, sometimes immediately. Spending extra time out of your day to keep your house clean or reading a book will do wonders for either your home or yourself. I think it’s ok to slave for something that personally benefits you and can give you happiness. I’ve worked jobs where the most I get…

I was on a call with a recruiter and they said in passing, “Yeah, you can do calls from 7-3 then prep for the next day for two hours”. I let the conversation continue and at the end when they asked if I had questions I brought that up. They stammered, back pedaled, and told me “The hours really depends on your manager”. This is one of those places that offers unlimited PTO – the unlimited PTO that you can't take without fucking yourself and when you get terminated you don't get paid out for unused PTO.

Or when their thoughts might be different but their talk habits get stuck as workplace talk? My talk felt like this and only undoes by thinking and typing, so i can rewrite the habit or be surprised by it, or something. Are the habits endable or still come out, for example when with less mental energy or more stress?

Economics Explained said it well. Today's governments are concerned with managing debt, employment, inflation, taxation, and supply output to gauge the health of a company. The bigger picture is what matters, quantity over quality. We need a new economic program that runs on managing the quality of life as well. Once analyzed as a component of economic health, this definitely show things going downhill.