Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Mammoth_Math4629 on 2025-06-18 14:38:17+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/newzcaster on 2025-06-18 14:08:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/violet-pixel on 2025-06-18 14:06:19+00:00.

I made a post last week about quitting my job with insane bosses, fortunately they actually took it okay.

I’m finishing out my last week and they have posted the listing for my position online. Out of curiosity I decided to look at the listing, they are going to pay the person after me over 15k LESS than I’m making. This is after they have watched me be unable to afford basic things like medical care and car repairs.

Obviously this is already awful of them, but now I’m also finding out more about how they live their lives that makes me hate them even more.

For months they’ve talked about this second “office” they have in a different state, which was confusing considering this company is so small they don’t even use the full main office. Then one of them printed off an invoice for a pool cleaning company for the second “office”. This prompted me to look up the address and find that it’s not an office, it’s a waterfront mansion with a large pool, several acres of land, two ponds, and its own pier. They’ve been calling it an “office” so they can write it off as a business expense.

These are the same people who consistently try to underpay their employees, and become outraged when someone notices they aren’t getting paid enough. They try to play the “small business owner barely scraping by” role to get out of properly compensating people, meanwhile they have two mansions, nice cars, and a couple million dollars in the bank.

I just had to vent about this, I’m just absolutely sickened by their actions and felt like this was a space where people would understand where I’m coming from.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Dear_Job_1156 on 2025-06-18 13:12:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/AdSpecialist6598 on 2025-06-18 12:19:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/chrisdh79 on 2025-06-18 12:17:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/blaspheminCapn on 2025-06-18 12:23:29+00:00.

How about you go out of business instead? Good luck hiring anyone after that interview

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Psychological-Pie857 on 2025-06-18 12:10:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Chithrai-Thirunal on 2025-06-18 12:07:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/smilesmiley on 2025-06-18 12:01:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Forever_Rubbered on 2025-06-18 11:42:20+00:00.

So my employer has mandated the full 5 day RTO since February. Tracks badge swipes, spyware on laptops, generating reports for management showing office attendance and “productivity”. It’s a nightmare, morale is in the gutter and everyone is looking to jump ship.

What fucking enrages me though, is that the very people forcing this shit upon us aren’t held to the same standards. Senior leadership (even upper management in some cases) seem to just be exempt from these policies. They work remotely constantly without consequence. All their talk of “collaboration” is complete BS if they can’t be bothered to show up themselves.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/thinkB4WeSpeak on 2025-06-18 10:10:11+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/AppleLightSauce on 2025-06-18 10:18:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/AggravatingBig4547 on 2025-06-18 00:30:53+00:00.

Try googling "make paid leave mandatory in US" or "why is paid leave not mandatory in the US like everywhere else?"

Do you get thoughtful articles by that title? Maybe, meaningful scholarly debates or peer edited papers? NOPE! jack shit

Paid leave is so downtrodden in the US you can't even find 10th page Google articles or duckduckgo pages on it. I can't even get a rando NYT author writing an opinion piece on it.

Id be willing to be a good chunk of change the reason isn't because nobody is talking aboot it....

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/OpinionLongjumping94 on 2025-06-17 22:20:54+00:00.

My office just sent out RTO survey. They have questions like "what are you most looking forward to, when you RTO?" And "how can we make RTO better?" Side question, is it possible to sprain your middle finger?

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Glass_Spend1655 on 2025-06-18 06:00:44+00:00.

Hear me out,

Companies already cheat, use auto reject filters, post ghost jobs, make applicants lives hell with 7 rounds of interviews and cause depression because of the lack of empathy for job seekers experience.

My advice is to switch off your ethics filter and fight fire with fire.

Lacking a skill? Mention you have basic understanding, worst case you'll learn before the interview

Tweak your job titles, call yourself "senior X" in the latest position

They need leadership skills? Mention you mentored some people ever if you didn't.

Seriously, all you can do to up your interview invite rate by a few percent is 100% worth it. This approach and handing the resume in person scored me my current job.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Psychological_Mess20 on 2025-06-18 05:28:39+00:00.

Basically been working there for almost 2 years now and how it turns out I've been overpaid all this time. Had talk with an accountant and hr yesterday. They told me that my salary is not what we initially agreed upon and they messed it up somehow BUT they sounded like it's my fault for not telling them about that issue. NOW they want to "garnish" my pay untill the overpayment is clear and told me that if im to quit they will seek legal action against me?!? Guys wtf

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/riligan on 2025-06-18 04:26:45+00:00.

My boss says we’re a “family” every other meeting. I asked for a day off to attend a funeral and got told, “We’re short-staffed, can someone else go instead?” So much for family, huh?

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Tannaquil on 2025-06-18 03:04:49+00:00.

Last December, I was laid off two weeks before Christmas, Ebeneezer Scrooge style. Why? The HR lady told me the company didn't have enough money to keep multiple senior editors on the payroll. They kept someone who had been at the company longer than me, and the junior editor I trained. I was upset, but I left on good terms with almost everyone. I went to the holiday party, let everyone else pay for my drinks, and peaced out.

They barely gave me any severance. I was unemployed for six months, and not for lack of trying. I just signed a contract with a new company.

Tonight, I received a text from an old coworker, asking if I'm available to re-record and update parts of an award-winning project I edited while I worked there. Not even an email. A text.

Now, this person and I did not part on good terms. About a month before I was laid off, he took over a project from me after too many rounds of his notes had us two weeks behind schedule. He didn't communicate clearly with me about what he wanted, and just did it himself over the weekend. I told my manager about his communication issues and bad time management, and brought it up at the next team meeting. This coworker responded by getting defensive, doubling down, and pulling from the old misogynist's playbook: manplaining to me about how to do my job, speaking to my male manager as if I weren't there, and calling my work "emotional" instead of "technical." I called him out on it in person and in a written performance review, but obviously, he still works there and I don't.

I don't have proof that it was a retaliatory firing, but the timing is very sus. The silver lining was that I didn't have to work with him anymore.

My new contract doesn't prevent me from taking other freelance gigs and redoing my work on that project, and the extra money would be nice. But here's where I need your help, Reddit:

Do I say no, and leave them to fend for themselves? Or do I say yes? If I say yes, what is the coldest, pettiest way of speaking to this guy and getting what I can from a company that screwed me over?

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Mi7che1l on 2025-06-18 01:32:44+00:00.

Seriously, what's the deal? I've worked at 4 different places and every single one had managers who acted like total jerks to anyone below them on the org chart.

They'll be all buddy buddy with their peers and kiss up to higher ups, but then turn around and micromanage, dismiss ideas, or just be straight up rude to their own team members.

Is it a power thing? Insecurity? Bad training? I'm genuinely curious because it seems so widespread.

Anyone else notice this pattern or is it just my bad luck with jobs?

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/blanktank88 on 2025-06-17 23:31:17+00:00.

I manage a small office of 12 people. Everyone struggles with the work load. They keep adding on time commitments to our processes. I’ve been begging for one additional trained person for years. We are far above the national average for case count for each person. We just can’t handle it. I finally got so far behind I had to turn in my notice. I’m one week into my two weeks notice and they just put the add out. I’m so fucking furious. If I had that one more person I could have made this place work. Fuck corporate. Fuck this place. Tempted to walk out the door right now and not finish my two weeks.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Anxious-Possibility on 2025-06-17 20:11:40+00:00.

So I'm currently job hunting and I can say it's the worst experience in the world. My job sucked but at least after work I forgot about it and did stuff I enjoyed. Now all I do is think about getting a job, work on my CV, apply to jobs I don't even want to do, work on my CV (again) turn myself into a clown for the hiring manager's amusement, worry about getting a job....

I have a lot of free time, and all of it is taken by job hunting. It's the most miserable unpaid job in the world. I want to use my time to study things I enjoy, enjoy the summer weather while it lasts, hang out with friends, and focus on my deteriorating mental health. But nope. Got to job hunt. The thing is I don't think I'm in a condition to even perform well at job hunting. I don't get much sleep. I can't use enough energy to apply because I hate it so much. I can't be bubbly and happy and excited for the job at my interviews. I think it anyone looks at me it's clear in dead inside. I've also isolated from all my friends because I'm ashamed to tell them what's happening.

Please make it end.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/reddituser10636 on 2025-06-17 21:11:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/DarkDugtrio on 2025-06-17 22:14:59+00:00.

Can’t stand the people that post on there Can’t stand the fakeness The deep darkness that these people are empty / void shouting into the abyss of no one gives a fuck in order to feel like they are part of the machine Give me a f Time Machine and get me out this f up society. Imagine going forward from living in the woods, being part of this world, being life…

to this abomination of let’s all share our digital curriculum vitae’s on the internet while we sit behind screens in our concrete box licking our lips at the man made term ‘promotion’

There is no such thing. Just a pathetic trap to keep these slaves locked in to burn their energy until they die , having achieved what exactly? Building some plastic bs or helping smarter people retain more money from poorer people

Yay