r/antiwork

If you live in an at-will state, you can be fired without reason. So if your boss doesn't like you, you lose your job, you go homeless and starve in the streets and probably end up being stabbed by someone while you're sleeping under a bridge.

This is a totalitarian system that's been accepted through normalized insanity. We talk so much on preventing tyranny from the government but we just allow corporations to control our lives in practically everyway you can think of. No freedom of speech, always walking on eggshells, don't piss off your boss or you might literally die as a future consequence.

Not a boss story, just something weird i noticed.

For like 5 years i had this thing every Sunday around 4pm where i'd get super irritable, chest felt heavy, just completely checked out mentally. I thought it was just part of my personality. My girlfriend used to say i was "hard to be around on weekends" and i believed her

I called it my Sunday thing. tried cutting caffeine, melatonin, journaling, whatever. nothing worked so i just accepted it as a me problem.

Was doing customer support for a SaaS company, one of those places where every week they add more to your plate and somehow your salary never comes up in that conversation. Left in January and picked up some freelance work on the side, been budgeting carefully but managing fine.

And maybe 6 or 7 weeks in my girlfriend mentioned i seemed really different on weekends lately, more present or something. I didn't get what she meant at first

then it just clicked. the Sunday thing was completely gone and i hadn't even noticed it leave. now i just lay in bed sunday afternoon playing on my phone doing absolutely nothing and meal prep and it feels incredible

5 years i lowkey thought something was wrong with me neurologically. turns out i was just accurately predicting having to spend 50 hours a week somewhere that made me feel invisible

No worker should be compelled to vote on—or live under—a contract they have not seen, have not read and have not had the time to study and discuss collectively.

​I used to work at a pretty toxic place with about 100 employees. The owner was big on controlling everyone's lives and required us to do unpaid trainings and seminars outside of work hours. They basically just relied on intimidating people so nobody would question it (I actually managed to end that right before I quit, but that's a separate story).

​Anyway, we were at one of these mandatory meetings and at the end, he hands out a paper survey with questions about the company.

​I initially wrote down lower scores that were my honest opinion, assuming they were just going to collect and tally them up.

​Instead, the owner stands up and goes, "Okay, in terms of how the company compensates employees... who gave us an A?"

​The room was dead silent except for one new girl who raised her hand. At that point, everyone in the room realized this was a test. So when he followed with "who gave us a B," every single person put their hand up. Everyone just changed their answers on the spot to survive the meeting.

​But on one of the later questions, the owner asked who gave a 'C', and one woman actually raised her hand. The owner pulled her aside right after the meeting and aggressively questioned her about her opinion.

​Fun fact: The owner was so obsessed with tracking us and demanding approval, but his own son who worked there was caught embezzling from him a year or two later.

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Hi everyone, I just need to vent about a toxic social dynamic that I keep encountering, and I know this sub will understand. Whenever I’m getting to know new people (both younger and older), the question "What do you do for a living?" inevitably comes up. When I tell them I work as a retail worker, way too many people give me this condescending half-smile and say: "Oh... so you ONLY do that? "As if my job is just a temporary failure, a lack of ambition, or something to be ashamed of. It drives me crazy.

There is this disgusting classist snobbery where people completely evaluate your intelligence, your worth, and your dignity based on your LinkedIn bio or the prestige of your job title.They have absolutely no idea how exhausting customer service is. They don’t see the emotional labor, the stress management, or the flexibility it requires. Every honest job that pays the bills and gives you financial independence deserves 100% respect. Period. I am so tired of this capitalist brainwash where we are forced to feel "less than" just because we aren't chasing some corporate hustle or corporate title. Your job is what you do to survive, it is NOT who you are.

Has anyone else experienced this? How do you deal with people who try to look down on your job?

The ruling class no longer even pretends to care about our wellbeing because they don’t think anyone will actually be able to organize and force a meaningful change of direction before they assume total control

They talk about creating new currencies, they build bunkers, they install AI tracking software and use flock cameras to monitor everyone’s movement etc…

The AI surveillance tech in the pipeline makes the CCP internet firewall and monitoring look like child’s play. We will never be able organize ourselves to fight back against the seemingly purposeful erosion of our quality of life if an AI surveillance model can instantly figure out if a person is even beginning to THINK about specific retaliatory actions (protests, strikes, riots etc…) by analyzing all of their online communications and browsing behaviour, and then cutting them off from communication, or in the farther future use robots/drones to detain them. The sudden push for digital IDs and the end of internet anonymity to “protect children” isn’t a coincidence

Sam Altman himself is personally invested in multiple companies that would basically become the entire economy once AI inevitably destroys the social contract. It sounds conspiratorial but interview after interview with these tech billionaires make it clear that is the goal: to completely reshape society and build a future under their control

Their miscalculation is the rate at which they or destroying things is currently a lot faster than the implementation of the AI surveillance tech. This technology is exponential though and there will be a time where it will become near impossible for the working class to properly organize

I only hope the pushback is great enough to enact meaningful change before that happens

it’s because the staff are made to come in sick and the kids who are sick are never sent home

i have food poisoning today. i’ve thrown up three times, shat twice as many times and i still had to work my full 10 hour shift. i know food poisoning isn’t contagious but ive done this with norovirus, pink eye, the flu, you name it

management knew i was sick. even the kids knew i was sick because after i ran to the bathroom for the millionth time that day they were checking in on me. they don’t give a shit however.

try and call in sick and you’ll be asked to come in and if you dare refuse, you will be given a disciplinary. they’ll always blame it on something untrue like performance though so they can cover up their tracks

this has happened in every daycare i’ve worked in and i’m a seasoned teacher. i’ve worked in 4

Had driven 50 minutes to an interview to be told that they scheduled the interview when the manager wasn’t in, and to reschedule. I can’t anymore. This trip took half a tank of gas when it’s at an all time high and 14 dollars in tolls. I literally have no money for food till I get paid because I have to choose to put gas in my car to get to my three jobs which just can’t seem to schedule anyone more than 8 hours a week.