Antiwork

whenever I see someone that doesn't know what they want to do in life, people in the replies are always telling him/her to look into skill trades. I get it, they make good money. I've sometimes been considering them myself as well. But there's so many reasons I wouldn't want to work in skill trades. here's just a few. 1: It's very hard on your body. I would rather work a job where I put minimal stress on my body, rather than a job where my body would be fucked up before I even reach 45. you'll feel too tired and exhausted to do anything after work. cant exercise outside of work or go to the gym at all. 2: People talk as if it's a simpler alternative than attending college, but that isn't true. For the majority of skilled trades, you must study and learn a lot. It's probably…

I live in the US. It seems like all the policies and benefits of being in the EU are tailored towards having less time at work, whereas the US is designed to suck every ounce of strength out of you for profit. Can any Europeans testify to this?

For some background I work- essentially for a company that is just a legal white collar sweatshop- it’s a company that provides customer service to other startups at a premium- the people in my company can be doing the same work or more and mostly being paid less then those who work for the actual company. It’s shitty. The actual company I work for go through a pretty intense screening and hiring process with a start offer of $15.00 an hour. The team I work for is for a ‘progressive’ health insurance company- sure they’re trying to make health insurance more transparent and user friendly- it’s still a health insurance company (in the states) at the end of the day. The way it breaks down is my team is provider facing- dealing with claims and benefit calls- weird situations, etc. the other side- the company were contracted with are member…

I started working at my current job back in September, where I was hired into a severely behind administrative department – behind because there was no one working in the administrative (needs at least 2). It's now been nearly 2 months, and every time I remind my boss, hey, I was hired to do one job, not two, she says she's “still looking”. I'm behind on a lot of work because the work I'm given needs to be done by 2 people. I was hired a month after the last person was fired from being the only person working in administrative (which I actually agree with, because a huge majority of my work is correcting all of the previous' mistakes 😐 so that's been fun truly). So it's been total 3 months where they've had the opportunity to hire the second person. So I'd like to hear your bets. How…

Hi, r/antiwork. This is my first ever reddit post, so, apologies if I don’t meet any formalities or rules that are a commonality here. I just needed somewhere to set my thoughts. Currently, I work 72 hours a week at 12 dollars an hour. Im fortunate, my parents care enough to let me live with them, but I feel a cloud of guilt. I can’t live off them forever, and I’m doing my very best to find a way to a brighter future. However, part of me feels theres no hope left. Elections aren’t going to solve anything, people are too afraid to speak out, we can’t make change because we’ll be silenced. Its a scary world. Growing up, I admired the beauty of what was around me. Now, I only live in fear, not knowing if my future is certain, or is riddled with debt and misfortune. I try…