Antiwork

Your slavers will never be your salvation. I am black, and the notion of “it’s getting better” isn’t helpful as it denotes that the suffering never stopped, it’s becoming more bearable. Telling millions of people to endure until these boomers die is tantamount to the aforementioned. We don’t have enough votes federally and the state legislation we have and will get, has and will be greatly reduced by the barrage of litigation they throw against it. The media is owned by the very same demographic we are up against. Social sway won’t happen. We don’t have the money, influence, or social equity to beat them… so what do we do? Striking won’t work. Closures won’t work. Like… ???

I wanted to add a conclusion to my tale. After my boss consistently and persistently neglected to give consideration to my family's well being following the house fire, I was dealing with an incredibly taxing evening. I suffered extreme trauma to my psyche, as I had saved my grandparents in a housefire roughly a decade prior to now. Seeing the charred remnants of my former life, along with flashbacks of said previous fire (which consumed my only consistent childhood home), along with the stress of possibly losing my longstanding career job, I made the decision to have a drink at the local pub. In doing so, There was set forth a series of unfortunate events in which I wrecked my new car, (which was mostly purchased out of necessity, as my employer erroneous told me I would not be driving as many miles as I was upon hire.) Insurance neglected…

I'm a landscaper and my boss is changing our hourly wages to P4P (pay for performance). Maximum efficiency is required to obtain good money. You have set amount of budgeted hours a day, if you come in below it your good, if you exceed it you get paid the base pay which is lower than my current dollar per hour. This all sounds like some corpo bullshit to make us work harder, faster, smarter with little incentive except to make my boss more money faster. From what I've gathered on YouTube is that all the commenters don't trust their employees so I'm already thinking this isn't for the benefit of me, but for the owner. Is anyone familiar with this Mike Andes P4P shit? If so should I run or should I stay because the money is actually better? It seems like more pay for less hours worked but it…

30 years ago, I worked in a restaurant. I will never forget when another cook was told by the owner to work faster. He replied, “This is my 12.00 an hour pace”.

I'll start first. I was working at an engineering company. I was new to the company, like a month in. Their product line contained multiple categories of products. They were constantly engineering custom versions of their products for their customers. I was in the general manager's office, and I asked him: “Don't you guys have any standards?” He paused, then stared back at me and said… “Look I don't know if this is going to work out”. I immediately realized that it sounded like I was talking about their standards as a company in general and elaborated, saying that I meant – standard products that don't require customization.

This is mostly a vent post tbh. I have confidence issues and struggle with my anxiety everyday. Well I just have a lot of issues. I’ve yet to get my license because of it, so I’m looking at remote jobs because I’m sick of retail and food service jobs which are all that are in walking distance of me. I feel stupid a lot, get overwhelmed fairly easily. I feel like my only good quality is I’m good at speaking to customers, I’m super friendly. Anyone in a state of mind like mine where they found an at home job that they didn’t hate?

This saga has been going for 6 months. So, yeah…kinda long I got hurt in August. Tried to keep working but the pain became unbearable and ended up having to go through PT. Docs said if the injury didnt start healing that I would end up having casts put on both legs for 8 weeks so I had no choice but to be out – with Dr. note – for 3 weeks to heal. While out of work, she (manager)called another coworker 17 times to talk about me, my injury, made fun of me, and told ALL my coworkers “Oh dont worry about her, she had that DISEASE before she started here. diagnosis was stage-4 Overuse Injury I did message her and said “please only talk about me to me” Requirements to get the holiday bonus are posted by her, when i was released to return to work. One of…

I believe Unlimited PTO is a scam and here’s why (my opinion and experience with two companies): ⁠It’s for the company’s financial benefit. They don’t have to pay you out if the fire you and you can’t carry over vacation year to year. ⁠The “two weeks” expectation is still largely the baseline status quo (looking at you, boomers) so once you’re over that – you start getting looked at for abusing it. Do you really need that Friday off? You’ve already taken 2 weeks this year. ⁠All vacation is taken by YOU not given by the company. By taking it from the zero they’ve given you, you are creating the image of wanting time away, not using what’s given so in my experience, that’s been viewed as selfish and not “a team player” ⁠Since it’s not equally given, it can and will absolutely be looked at as a performance metric…