Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/manchesterMan0098 on 2025-02-24 07:10:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Best-Structure62 on 2025-02-24 03:08:29+00:00.

What red states do to kids

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/SandpaperMoose on 2025-02-24 02:13:10+00:00.

Asking for my friend. She was fired from the nonprofit we both worked for. It was an unjust firing, she worked her butt off for her clients but apparently annoyed someone higher up on the foodchain. Anyways, she had about 120 hrs accrued PTO. When she asked about it, the HR manager told her that she would not receive a cent of it. We are in Ohio, United States. This nonprofit is known for its shady practices, so keeping her PTO illegally would not be a shock to anyone. Should I have her call the Labor Board? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: She wrote an email to the Labor board just to ask questions and they said she should file a complaint. She was afraid to because they might try to claw back her unemployment. Which she received a letter this weekend that they did. I encouraged her to kick their butts! Thanks again to everyone who answered.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/donaldtrumpisachump on 2025-02-24 06:00:32+00:00.

This Is Happening

Right. Now.

Blatantly, In Front of Our Eyes.

This is what a Fascist takeover looks like.

The Death of a Republic.

This could very well be the end of life as we currently know it.

Do Not Look Away. Do Not Be Scared.

Start Planning. Start organizing. Prepare yourself.

Start imagining what YOU want the future to look like, instead of what they want.

Our country is under attack. We citizens need to respond appropriately.

We outnumber them massively, but they are currently more organized. if we don’t stop them, they will literally enslave us.

The only thing that matters now

Is How Will We Stop Them.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/OptimistPrimeBarista on 2025-02-24 03:12:15+00:00.

For context, seniority in title ascends from Specialist 1 → Specialist 2 → Specialist 3 → Senior Specialist → Manager.

I started my current role as a Specialist 2 four years ago after graduating college with a relevant degree. Up until January 2025, I had been the only person on my team who focuses on my specific area of expertise, so I’ve been responsible for leading a lot of projects autonomously. Every year, more and more responsibilities are added onto my plate outside of my initial job description. Every year, my company would go through a major change around the performance management cycle, and I’ve only ever received merit raises and bonuses. Nothing major. 

Last year, I asked my boss what my next step is since I’d felt like I earned a promotion/raise. She told me, “Well, when you first joined the company, your experience aligned more so with a Specialist 1 but we hired you as a Specialist 2 so we could meet your salary requirements. At this point, you’re catching up to your Specialist 2 title.”

Okay, fair enough. I’ll try again next year. Surely I’ll have met the requirements for a Specialist 3. I took on senior-level responsibilities that only someone 5+ years into their career would experience, and I succeeded and did really well.

A couple weeks ago, I asked my boss about the next step. She told me that the company that acquired ours doesn’t have the same title structure, so I can’t be a Specialist 3 since it doesn’t exist. “And besides, remember our last discussion? You really should’ve been hired as a Specialist 1 to begin with. If you were to pursue other opportunities, you’d likely only meet the qualifications for a Specialist 2 role. Title doesn’t really matter, though.” 

Well, I’m officially out. I accepted a senior global role earning a substantial increase in salary. The hiring team already knew me and held off on publishing the job opening until they knew whether I was interested. I gave my notice, and my boss said, “well, that’s a shame because I really fought hard for your bonus this year.” I told her it wasn’t even a factor in my decision.

Instead of living paycheck to paycheck while she earns over $215k, I'll be able to pay off my student loans within two years, buy a house, and save for retirement. That's so much more valuable to me.

Byeeeeeee.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/SunshotDestiny on 2025-02-24 02:14:42+00:00.

I work in healthcare, and I work as a patient companion. In short, if a patient needs someone in the room for 1:1 care and/or supervision that is my job. I have been doing this for a few years now and have been injured and even have had my life threatened a few times now. To the point I have chronic pain in my back from how often It got strained through patient care, at times in preventing injury to my patient.

When the hospital is short staffed we also get floated to the floor to work, usually as extra bodies in case a patient comes in needing or developing a need for a companion. None of us like it, and I have been vocal about it mainly because at times they try to make us watch high risk patients AND work the floor at the same time. Which hasn't had an incident, yet, but we have had numerous close calls. Tonight, however I felt like crap, and debated all day in about calling in. Mainly because I might need a call in day in the future with school or with all the illnesses going around. But I felt good enough to work as a companion.

Except that isn't what they wanted of me. Not only was I going to be split between two floors, but on floors I hadn't worked before and where being a CNA would be much more intense. I talked to the nursing supervisor and told her I was feeling sick and that I wouldn't be much use on the floor as I was. But working as a companion I could do. That since I work every weekend I would be willing to be first up for the floor next time. She told me it was my turn and I could ether work it or call out, so I called out. This pissed her off and she said if I didn't want to work the floor ever I might as well just not be a CNA.

Any other job and I would say kiss my ass. But medical care always has max patients to the least amount of staff, and makes anyone who gets sick or injured feel like crap for calling in. That's why I am hoping to get out of it come may when I hopefully graduate with my degree. But as of tonight, I am torn between being pissed off about always being treated like I have to be some living robot of empathy to everyone but anytime I need some consideration I am told to fuck off.

All corporate owned jobs suck, but medicine just makes you feel less than human while wringing you for all you are worth.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/cmdwedge75 on 2025-02-24 03:17:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/StolenWishes on 2025-02-23 23:17:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/UnderScoreLifeAlert on 2025-02-24 00:48:44+00:00.

I'm going to keep it vague and simple and just tell you part of my work is in low-income housing. President Elon firing probationary employees in most government departments is already causing problems for the company I do work for. I was in regular contact with these two government workers who were in a housing development department (Before last week I thought they were state a department but turns out they're federal).

These two workers we'll call B and M. B has been with the department for 25 years and M has been with the team for 10. Both of their bosses retired recently, and they both got promoted and 3 new hires were brought in under them.

The problem is that even though B and M have been with the department for decades they were technically on probation because they just got promoted. So now all 5 of those people are just removed and the company I do work for literally has no idea what it is supposed to do.

There's a lot of functions the company for can no longer do. On the bright side I guess there is less oversight, and fraud is easier to commit so yippee.

This probably means that rental assistance is not going to happen anymore because no one is going be capable of processing the money. Which hurts the tenants who need it because being homeless awful. And the company I work for is now in a weird spot because they will get less income from those tenants if they no longer have rental assistance. I am already imagine this company will give up on low income housing because if the rental assistance stops they'll be losing money.

Also to clarify, the company does not pick rent prices for low income housing the government decides that. It's not like the company I do work for can just charge 80k a month in rent and have the government pay it.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/ronnie_carra on 2025-02-23 23:47:43+00:00.

This corporate fetish for asses in seats isn’t about performance—it’s a desperate snarl from the beasts of capital, gnashing their teeth over empty skyscrapers and plummeting property portfolios.

You want to talk efficiency? Don’t gaslight us with your spreadsheet theatrics while you strangle productivity with performative bullshit that guts our time, our sanity, our lives. We’ve outperformed your wildest metrics in the quiet of our homes, far from your fluorescent-lit panopticons. We’ve rebuilt microscopic moments of joy into work, clawed back previous minutes with families, with ourselves.

This is about control. About CEOs and shareholders pissing themselves as their concrete temples rot into irrelevance, their leases bleeding value, their power diluted when they can’t surveil, can’t dominate, can’t own the hours we breathe. You miss the scent of fear in elevators, the performative hustle of bodies chained to desks.

You’re not fooling anyone with your hollow sermons about “collaboration” and “culture.” We see the rot behind the mask: the desperate clawing to prop up a dying empire of steel and glass, to force-feed the machine our autonomy because your gods—commercial real estate and middle-management fiefdoms—are starving.

Condemn this. Condemn it with the fury of every worker who has thrived. Let your rage be a scythe through their paper-thin lies. They want to chain us to desks? Let them choke on their own hypocrisy. We are not livestock to herd back into pens for their profit. We are not collateral for their bad investments. We are human, and we’ve proven—brilliantly—that their “office” is a relic, a carcass.

Fuck Jamie Dimon and his ilk. Burn the mandate. Let their towers lie empty. Let the market cannibalize its own. Adapt or fucking die—but don’t dare dress your greed in the costume of our ambition.

We see you.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Brian_Ghoshery on 2025-02-23 20:21:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Southern-Row-6325 on 2025-02-23 22:42:49+00:00.

Im not sure if this is allowed, but i wanted to say that Carelon , a division of Anthem Insurance, is currently making their employees work mandatory over time monday through friday.

it started in january and doesn’t end until march. During this time employees are being forced to work ten to 12 hours per day.

last week they messaged their employees stating that they lawyers( plural) found that ohio doesnt require them to grant s 15 minute Break during the final 4 hours of their mandatory 12 hour shift.

their employees are being forced to mill themselves for anthem share holders. during this , anthem paid a team of lawyers to learn they can cheat individuals out of 15 minutes of pay.

In addition ton this a couple of free women who are on maternity leave were told it’s being cancelled early and to report to work.

when an employee stated she had it papered with HR prior to leaving, the boss replied ,I expect you in your chair the day your leave ends.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/PlayfulSet6749 on 2025-02-23 22:01:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/IrishStarUS on 2025-02-23 21:48:09+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Candelabra-Honey-13 on 2025-02-23 21:32:54+00:00.

I hate being beholden to these stupid corporations but of course, that’s by design. Part of me feels ungrateful that despite the fact that my nervous system is a wreck by the day - I’m making what I need to support my family. But I have the “where else will I find this salary”-anxiety and it’s becoming deeply unhealthy, my fixation/fear over it all going away, or me “ruining it” if I end up saying the wrong thing or putting my foot down. I also hate the fact that I can feel Elon’s idiotic workplace culture trickling down into private companies, already. I feel like I’m going to explode. The concept of golden handcuffs is so real but I’ve been there done that with the raging narc boss, and having my livelihood hung over my head. I don’t know how to regulate my emotions in this situation..

Just venting ~

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Rude-Rise-7728 on 2025-02-23 19:42:09+00:00.

The company is called Elevation Connect. It's a BPO that offers call center services for several different clients.

To address the elephant in the room, the company had a training assistant who formerly worked as an elementary school teacher. This person was fired from that job due to very serious allegations involving a camera being placed in a bathroom, and multiple children being spied on. The person was also charged with multiple felonies. Two weeks before my firing, this person was promoted from a training assistant to full trainer.

I have a condition that can cause intense vertigo. The vertigo is particularly bad in moments when I am stressed out. Due to this condition, I would typically miss work once or twice per month. They warned me about my absences and threatened me with termination, which only made my stress levels worse, and subsequently led to an uptick in the vertigo. On November 1, I was terminated due to my absences.

My termination didn't even make sense from a business perspective. I was at the company for about a year. To give you a sense of how many people leave the company, I was one of the most seasoned workers there when I left after just one year. Turnover at the client I worked for was so high that they ran training classes, one after the next, nonstop throughout the year. If I had to guess, the average agent lasts less than three months in production.

On the day that I was fired (they were nice enough to let me work through my lunch break) it was me and one other person on the phone, with several calls waiting in queue. This was not "clearing the dead weight." This was just an act of cruelty that they took simply because they had the power to do so.

I am actually someone who is sympathetic to those caught in the criminal justice system.I think felons should be able to hold jobs, provided the job is appropriate in relation to the crime they were convicted of.

From my research, it appears that the charges against the trainer are still pending and that they haven't been convicted of the charges against them. And since it is a WFH job that doesn't put the person around kids, I can see the argument that they should be allowed to continue working there until the case is resolved.

However, any sympathy in that direction goes out the window when the same company is firing chronically ill employees.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/icandodge on 2025-02-23 18:59:22+00:00.

I worked a managerial role at a tutoring center for just over 3 years. Ex-boss started me at 17 an hour (which is now under minimum wage where I live). I had to practically plead with him for a raise after 2ish years of working there, and that's because I moved out of my parents house and I had rent to pay from that point onwards, so I needed a little more money. He raised it to a measly 18 an hour (this is not in USD).

It's a long story that I won't divulge, but I got that job at around 19 years old and this guy really took advantage of me for the 3 years I worked there. Undervalued me and underpaid me.

After I finally gave my notice back in December, I saw that he posted my job for 20-25 an hour. I was furious. Upon seeing that, I wish I never offered to come in and cover for him after I quit if he really needs someone to help him out. I offered to do so on a very occasional basis, just to be kind. But I regretted it instantly.

Lo and behold, he messaged me the other day asking if I could come in for a week next month to cover for an absence that he'll have. I responded and respectfully told him that I am willing to do so but that I kindly ask that my rate be bumped to 20 an hour and if that would work for him.

He left me on read, lol.

I just can't deal with the greed and selfishness of these people. He'd always complain about how the business isn't making him any money and how he's scraping by with it - meanwhile, he can afford 3+ vacations a year with his wife (who also owns a business in the same franchise), owns a sailboat that he races on every summer, and always humble bragged about having a pizza oven at his house. It's comical.

Don't run a small business if you aren't willing to pay your employees properly, no matter the cost. Just don't. I don't really care if it's not making you much money. That isn't an excuse to take advantage of and underpay the people that are keeping your business on its feet. I am sick of greedy business owners thinking only of themselves and acting offended when someone dares to ask for better pay. During the course of my time working there, he outright complained about the cost of paying his employees multiple times. Very unprofessional.

It's funny how he'd rather go through the trouble of finding another (worse) solution than me (given that I know the ins and outs of everything there) rather than just paying me an extra 60-80 bucks for the week. Greed knows no bounds, I guess

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Brian_Ghoshery on 2025-02-23 15:07:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Working-Durian-2473 on 2025-02-23 09:19:14+00:00.

It seems like it is not typical for employees to get a paid lunch, or am I wrong? So in that case, if I show up to work from 9-5 and take even just a 30 minute lunch break, I’m not getting 40 hrs/wk in. Am I just dumb someone please explain

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