Antiwork

I'm a senior manager for a large government contract and feel as though my perspective on anti-work is more a view of a more balanced legislative requirement across the board on lesser working hours per week, creating living wages, keeping wages in line with inflation etc. However I'm seeing a lot of people who are anti work because they have worked for atrocious bosses/companies and nothing more than that. Is it just that many of you simply haven't found the right company/boss/fit to match your personal needs? I do agree some of the emails/texts I've seen are absolutely disgusting and if I had done anything remotely like that for my company I'd have been booted out the door!

So if fuel is getting so expensive, why are cars still out there racing and driving our prices up? I get advertisement, but screw those corporations too. I think that sports stars are overpayed too, why do they need to make millions throwing a ball? I think that they could just have one city where all the teams live and have a single Stadium they play televised games in. The rest could be converted into homeless shelters and what else? We'd see traffic in every major city go down significantly. Homeless people off the streets, games would still be on tv, and the balls would be cut off of big money in organized sports. They really don't need to exist. Please feel free to show me the holes in this logic other than teams cheating *which they already do* and then tell me why you think they deserve millions of…

I’m so physically and mentally exhausted. I’m running out of money because I just can’t urge myself to work. I saved up 20k only to realize that I needed at least 50k to even imagine buying a house. But then I broke my ankle, except during 2 ER visits, nobody saw the break. So for 3 months, I was in agony, until I went to a specialist that looked at my old scans and pointed out the break. I can’t afford physical therapy or surgery for my deformed ankle. I mean, I’ve had an infected tonsil since I was 8 years old that I still can’t afford to have removed. My insurance dropped me because I couldn’t afford to pay 30k to the hospital that didn’t treat me. It’s an endless cycle. I have an autoimmune disease that I can’t afford medicine for and I live with chronic pain, disability…

I work for a small business where I was promoted to general manager about 6 months ago. Prior to the promotion I made $8 an hour. In an evaluation today, the owner told me they could no longer afford to pay me my salaried rate of $16 an hour (40 hours a week, no overtime). They've also taken away a couple of my responsibilities (as a way of demoting me without actually removing me from the position). I am now being asked to negotiate my pay cut because they can “no longer afford it”. They wanted to know what I think was “fair” rate, but I stalled and was able to ask to get back to them. They want an answer tomorrow and I have absolutely no idea what to say. How should I go about doing this? I'm not in a position where I can afford to leave, and…