Antiwork

How do you?

At my job, I have a specific position and title. Everyone else – around 5-6 people – have this same role. All of them work purely from home, completely remote. But, as of my second week of work, my boss said the “higher ups” who I’ve never met or interacted with want me in the office every single day. This wouldn’t be an issue if I wasn’t told the job would be “mostly online”, and the commute wasn’t taking up 2 hours of my day. To make things worse, it feels like no one else in the office is ever even there. At most, a quiet old lady or the office manager will be in, but I consistently open and close the office myself as no one else who DOES go in seems to stay as long. Am I overreacting? Unfortunately nothing in any of my contracts say anything about…

Hey all, I work in manufacturing and as a matter of course, companies should run industrial safety Gap Reports to ensure that OSHA or other regulatory comites come down on us…or we accidentally immolate our staff. A Gap report basically looks at the difference or Gap between where a company is and where it should be. For some reason, our upper management is responding to this regular action with firings. Our customers are every day people, our staff is working with dangerous equipment, our devices are dangerous equipment. If our staff is injured by our equipment, the confidence in our product will be destroyed. The board and upper management should know that we are doing what we can to make sure this doesn't happen. Now I am afraid for my longevity at our company because I took this action seriously and with no expectation of retaliation. I honestly am struck…

It's been a few days since i stayed back late till 10pm to do my job. I was told that I wasn't good enough. The context of staying late for work was there was simply too much work to finish for an audit. I have been feeling low because I was feeling tired. Then I was told I wasn't leading by example and if the superior also felt low, the entire department would go down. i was also told that they been doing my job for me. I was told that I need to do better, in that I have to lead by example. The superior also explained that I shouldn't be a negative person because they are also working hard. When I decided to take a break at 8pm, I was told to continue working. I was told I should have asked permission to take break. i wanted to…

Yesterday was labor day in the US, meaning some of us (yes there are plenty of people who don’t get the day off) didn’t clock in. It is absolutely insane how good I felt on Sunday. I began my new job in March and I haven’t taken any time off yet because I am trying to accrue some days, and holy fuck having even a single extra day momentarily improved my quality of life THAT much? I can’t believe that roughly 70% of my life is owned by a fucking business. I can’t believe that even a 5 day work week is normalized so much in fucking 2022. I hate that we haven’t moved past this despite provable increases in worker efficiency in the age of computers. I’m just so tired. I went to bed on Sunday night laughing with my girlfriend instead of feeling a pit in my stomach…