Trans rights are workers' rights.

Women's rights are workers' rights.

BIPOC rights are workers' rights.

Social justice is justice for workers.

I have a lot of passive income now, enough that I'll be living very comfortably doing whatever the f I want for at least the next couple of decades and no this isn't a joke

I don't feel bad. Society hasn't ever done anything good for me that i should feel thankful for so why should I contribute to the system that hasn't done jackshit for me? They wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire.

I can wake up whenever the f I want, do whatever the f I want, whenever and whereever the f I want. And no I don't employ people, I just got passive income, a LOT of passive income now

And yes, I want to be a "unproductive, useless leech" at least that's what society would call me if I said these words Im sure. But who cares? Literally the only reason a reasonable person would ever want employment is to afford food, healthare, water, roof over their head and money for life basically, nothing else.

Edit: To people asking about how I acquired passive income. I inherited it. I lucked out.

I make more than I should for the amount of work that I do in a day. My bosses treat me well. But they are huge trump supporters and I hate being around trump supporters. Quit talking to my best friend and brother because they are brain washed Going to give my 2 week notice tomorrow. Not going to just put my head in the sand. I have morals and will die having them.

The police enforce the power of capitalist, businesses, and bosses, to exploit workers and oppress regular people.

The cops in the U.S. started out as slave catchers (literally kidnapping workers back to plantations).

The cops will arrest a person who steals from stores but NEVER businesses owners who steal workers wages.

The cops literally seize peoples cash and assets extra-judicially and through that are the biggest thieves in the entire u.s.

The police regularly work with bosses to harass and break striking workers.

I'm sorry but if you are pro cop and think you are anti work you're kidding yourself.

Jeff Bezos can suck my nuts.

Edit: I am going to be writing leftist fiction. The first one being about the struggle against fascism and white supremacist organizations in the Pacific Northwest and the roots of modern conservatism. All to serve as a commentary on how the right can organize so easily but the left still struggles to for numerous reasons.

Had to brave Walmart for the first time in quite a while to buy some ink for my printer today. I know. Realized they have nothing but self checkouts. Walk up next to one where a guy is taking items out of his cart and putting them in bags without scanning. Look at his screen and it says "Start Scanning Items". Watch him finish up his full cart and walk right out.

I'll be honest, for a short second I thought of grabbing someone. I looked around at every register being a self checkout and thought how many lost jobs these have caused and we are now doing their work while paying them for the pleasure of shopping there. Watched him walkout and get to his car. I applaud you random Chad.

Fuck Walmart and fuck self checkouts.

I seriously do not like Gen x or boomers. The boomers are still irritating. They’ve mostly calmed their tits a bit and are getting ready for their retirement homes. Gen x on the other hand are now the new boomers. I have never seen a bunch of assholes to this degree. And you won’t know it until you work with them. I recently took a position of an older coworker and from that point on every effort towards working hard gets discounted. It’s almost like they’re conditioned to hate on the young. Oh boy I wonder where they learned that from. ESPECIALLY if that youth is male. I’ve closely monitored their behavior patterns. Every LITTLE MOVE. One of my coworkers saw I was tired and she goes “WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE I CAME TO WORK DRUNK.” Is this some sort of flex that older people use? I get they wanna go on a power trip but blatantly admitting to a crime? You might do everything right and make one small mistake and they somehow try to guilt trip you over it. You try to stand up for yourself against verbal harassment and all of a sudden you are the bad guy lol. I really thought young people were overreacting when I saw them complain. Now I know.

[UPDATE: I'm receiving a told of harassment from right-wingers for this post. I wrote a follow-up post to address this harassment and again ask the mods to release an official statement against right-wing bigotry.]

[UPDATE 2: I'm deleting my account due to the harassment I've received as a result of this post. Please do not use me as a reason to leave the sub. Stay and try to move it in a more progressive direction. I still want Antiwork to succeed, but I need to take a break from politics for a while. Please continue to support the Kellogg's boycott and fight for workers of all races, genders and sexualities everywhere. Together we are strong, and none of us are free until all of us are free.]

Antiwork has had a huge influx of users lately, and unfortunately, some of them are trying to turn this sub into The_Donald 2.0. Anytime there is any post stating the simple fact that worker solidarity movements mean dignity and respect for EVERYONE, there is a huge number of upvoted comments saying "stop trying to make antiwork political", "antiwork isn't about social issues", "I'm conservative and I'm antiwork too." etc.

This isn't just a sub to complain about your boss or pretend you're oppressed because you're forced to respect your coworkers preferred pronouns. This sub isn't for complaining about undocumented immigrants taking your job or driving down wages. This sub isn't for promoting Steve Bannon-style "economic nationalism" at the expense of workers in poor countries.

If you're a right-winger, grow up. The billionaire class are your enemy, not other poor people who want the same dignity and respect you do. No one cares that you think SJWs are cringe or that you grew up being told you are superior to other people because of where you were born.

Black workers matter. Queer workers matter. Trans workers matter. Female workers matter. Disabled workers matter. And yes, non-American workers matter too.

Workers are workers. Humans and humans. What part of "Workers of the World Unite" is hard to understand?

Right-wing divide-and-conquer bullshit has no place here. (And no, telling right-wingers to stop being bigoted assholes is not divide-and-conquer.)

I know many of you are as frustrated with this problem as I am. I asked the mods to make an official post addressing right-wing infiltration, but they don't think it's necessary. They told me that the sidebar is clear enough that this is a leftist sub.

I disagree. Most people don't read the sidebar, and the steady increase in right-wing posts and comments getting upvoted shows that the mods' current actions are not enough. Removing right-wing posts and comments after they've already gained traction for hours isn't enough.

The mods need to make it 100% clear that this is a leftist space that has solidarity with all oppressed and disenfranchised populations. If they don't, right-wingers will take their silence as a tacit endorsement and continue to use this sub to promote reactionary goals. This problem needs to be addressed now before it gets even more out of hand.

Covid changed the game. I had a revelation shorty after the pandemic started.

My job was now to be done remotely - from home. Of course, it would be impossible to have a second full time job if I had to still go into the office but now that my home is my office I decided to find multiple jobs because why not. It started as an experiment at first with getting the second work from home job (claims processing) for $35k annually. Then a month went by, two months…and I had been working both jobs no problem, collecting two paychecks. I can easily do the work I need to do within the first hour and then just follow up as the day goes on - total at desk time would be around 5 hours for both jobs. So I decided to get a third work from home job. Similar job - just a claims processor that pays 35k annually. On top of my original job, all three jobs net me 120k~. It’s changed my life and I encourage anyone out there who is sick of driving to a dead end job at a restaurant, office, warehouse, retail store, to do the same from the comfort of your home. The system has failed me long enough so I’m taking control.

The irony of this post is that I am working MORE jobs but in reality have never been more free…

Work is a colossal waste of time. I'm not interested in spending 2/3rds of my life making some rich fucker richer. Working is bad for the environment, it's bad for society, and it's torture. It destroys your body and your mind and takes time away from your friends and family -- people who actually matter. It's boring, it's painful, it's unhealthy, and I'm getting older every year.

There is no number of concessions the capital class can make to me that will convince me to work. I will not work. I refuse to work. I refuse to submit and debase myself by being some power-tripping manager's slave under threat of starvation. I refuse to waste my life on meaningless, tedious nonsense that actively helps to destroy the world I live in. I refuse to participate in a society that excludes me from its achievements.

Edit: To the pro-workists in my comments, have fun wasting your life typing in an excel spreadsheet or tilling dirt. I oppose work and productive labor in all forms without exception. "Unemployment for all" is at the top of the subreddit, and the sidebar contains helpful information about opposing productive labor as well.

PLEASE STOP GIVING THIS POST PAID AWARDS. I’ll take your free awards if you want to part with them so badly, but Reddit doesn’t need your money. If you’re so inclined to throw cash at something (I’m truly flattered that something I said may have sparked that!) donate to your union’s COPE fund or a local food bank instead.

A 24 year old female tech worker made a tik tok showing off her fancy office and upper class life. Half the comments on that post were about how she probably didn’t get the job for her skills. Low level corporate jobs are full of young people, and this sub LOVES praising the 24 year old dudes with these jobs because y’all rightfully acknowledge that they are workers too. But when the young white collar worker is a pretty blonde girl, all of that evaporates and not only do we hate her and hold her accountable for Uber’s abuses of their drivers, but she must’ve only been hired for her ass anyway.

That girl probably makes $90k tops in an expensive city. She is not the enemy for having a nice job, a pleasant office environment, or wealthy parents who are likely subsidizing that fancy apartment. You have no reason to assume she is not good at her job.

It was one thing when I’d catch bits of misogyny here and there directed at female managers. That was easy to ignore and write off as poorly worded anger. But now you are turning this bullshit on a fellow worker and it’s clear some of you just hate women.

EDIT: this got a lot of responses and I don’t have a ton of time right now, but thank you to everyone leaving supportive comments and giving this post awards. Please don’t spend your money on Reddit though. I’m glad to see that the prevailing attitude of this sub is still that that bullshit is unacceptable.

To address all the downvoted comments en masse: I am not the one dividing the movement by posting this. The people being openly and flagrantly bigoted and turning off large swaths of the population from getting involved are the ones doing that, and as you can see in the comments, a lot of people were thinking the same thing. The existence of that attitude is the problem, starting a discussion about the problem is not the problem.

FINAL EDIT this post got away from me, I was not trying to hit front page. Some people seem to think that this was all an inside job on a corporate account meant to sow discord, but feel free to check out my post history and see how frequently I post about The Sims lol, nobody wants to buy this shit. I saw a problem, I commented on the problem, that’s all this is. Again please stop spending your money on Reddit, go buy yourselves something nice or donate to charity. I responded to a few comments but it’s gotten pretty overwhelming and I have a job too so I don’t think I’m going to be responding anymore. Appreciate the mods and the vast majority of the users here!

I will NEVER forgive my parents for pushing me out into this world while being working class. I HATE wageslaving and I HATE the fact I'm going to HAVE TO keep doing that at least for the next 30 years to come

Way to enjoy my life, dad!

Yeah prolly gonna get downvoted but idfc, I had to vent

I am currently off sick following eye surgery. I am due to return to work next week after being away for a month. Today, a coworker asks me to look at a something on Teams, which I do because he said it was important. Low and behold, there is a proposed email to my manager from my 4 coworkers giving reasons why we should change the way we do things and proposing new hours to do things. Hours which would stretch our already thin team! Hours that would make us work more, not less. All without my input. I read through it and said I disagreed with what they proposed. I then checked my Outlook because I was online. Fuck me - they had already sent the email to the manager! So I was commenting in Teams after the fact. FFS. So I then replied to the group email on Outlook with my manager copied in, saying why I disagreed with the proposals and also how "disappointed I was that such discussions had taken place [between my coworkers] without me, while I was on sick leave". These fucknuts. It isn't the first time this has happened, and I would not usually be so expressive to a manager about other workers, but this time it was too much. You turn your back and the next thing you know they are taking advantage of this to change how things work.

Hello! I am very sorry about all the hate around this interview on Fox news. I get it that maybe this Reddit evolved into something else then it was maybe 1 year ago when I joined. But this Reddit initially was about the abolition of work . It is even called: Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!

If someone did not bother to read the description I can quote it for you:

A subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.

So yeah maybe y'all did not get it in the first place but even though workers rights belong here 100% antiwork means antiwork or in other words: anti wage labor in all it's forms.

If you think that mod should not speak in the name of the community well... this is a different story... but on the other hand this is not an official organization but a sub and they are the mod so I don't know... they can talk in the name of it.... If you don't like it then organize IRL start collective meetings, establish a political line of your choice and speak for yourself.

If you think they got destroyed by FoxNews maybe you should rethink your ideas.... really.

Lastly, is there a new sub for people who were here for anti work? not for something confusing that became of it?

I do not think you people who are so freak out better then the person who gave the interview in anyway. I am sorry you work 3 jobs abolition of work is about ending wage labor so it would do you good .Please do not take yourself so serious and always question the common sense!

More info here : https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/wiki/index#wiki_frequently_asked_questions

There are so many reasons to complain about what u/AbolishWork said yesterday. But intentionally misgendering someone, asking glibly "why is he wearing a dress", etc. -- such personal attacks affect all trans and non-binary people. Please don't participate in that in our culture. You normalize hateful behavior. I do understand some comments are made innocently, inadvertent, because the commenter is genuinely unaware. But some of the comments blatantly use gender as a weapon. You know it when you see it. It's all over this sub in the last day and a half.

u/AbolishWork has done much to earn our scorn. Hate on them all you want. But not through targeting their gender/gender identity. Not cool.

tl;dr - attack someone for being an asshole, not because they are nb or trans

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I feel like women people with a uterus should be given PTO for heavy and/or especially painful periods. It's so painful sometimes and it feels like all of the energy has been sapped from your body. Not to mention the desperate trips to the gross public bathroom and having to deal with the mess of emptying a cup or changing tampons without proper privacy (you have to leave the stall to clean your messy hands and the cup or just not clean the cup at all).

I'm curious to hear your opinions on this. Do you think uterus-bearing people should be granted PTO or some other accommodating during troublesome periods?

Edit: Jesus Christ this blew up. Thank you so much for the awards! In lieu of any more purchased awards please donate to a reputable Ukraine humanitarian effort.

I'm glad we're having an open discussion here. Let's keep an open mind while we do.

Edit2: Some of y'all are so full of anger and hatred that you try to personally attack random people on the internet instead of having a respectful and productive discussion. I'm not going to respond to comments trying to bait me into an argument anymore. Share your opinion and be respectful or gtfo.

I tried to do the right thing and work full-time. I have been at it been six months. But it’s just too much. I was able to for eight years just get by on a side hustle which brought in quite a bit, but I wanted to pivot to something else and actually use my degree. I finally landed a hybrid job, and I thought primarily working from home would be the trick but it’s still exhausting. Sitting at my desk for eight hours a day is better than being in office, but it is still quite taxing. I hate the endless meetings, corporate bullshit, subtle bullying over nothing because you realize other people are just as miserable as you and they’re trying to get out their anguish out in the wrong way, ego pissing contests, and then, when I finally get off at 5pm only having maybe three or four hours to myself. There’s times I try to push bedtime out but then if I don’t get enough sleep, the next day is going to be exponentially worse. There’s no winning. Working a full-time job… on one hand, if you want a good position, you’re supposed to be overjoyed and grateful that you beat out all the other applicants but also understand the corporation owns your mortal soul. Start a business and understand that most businesses fail and you will be working twice as much.

I don’t have the energy in me after work to be creative or pursue hobbies or meet up with friends the way I used to because I’m just so beat and exhausted and my job has taken everything from me. I find it hard to have empathy for others and be emotionally passionate and think about humanitarian issues that used to rev me up. It’s hard to even walk my dog. I sit like a lump in front of the TV filled with existential dread, wondering if this is what I’m relegated to for the next several decades. Sure, I could pivot to a company that is less toxic, but they will still be taking my most prized commodity: time. I’m thinking about the next day where I have to get up at the crack of dawn and do it all over again. Weekends are just too short now to really get much enjoyment out of them.

Don’t be fooled by the “40 hours“. Office hours are 8 to 5 so they squeeze in that unpaid lunch hour every day and considering the time it takes to get ready for work, drive in traffic, and we are easily at 55+ hours a week forfeited. This is inhumane. You can argue “get a job you love and you won’t work a day in your life“ but get real… That is not feasible for most people.

The juice is just not worth the squeeze. This was my attempt at Adulting and y’all can have it back. I thank God I never had kids because then I would be forced to do this every day, and by the time it would be over when I would be able to retire my body would be too broken and worn down to actually enjoy life. At age 70, my creative pursuits would be long in the rearview, and I would realize I gave up most of my time and energy in my vital years to get money so that I could be in the rat race and prove to people I have status and stuff and it would ultimately leave me with nothing, and now I’m about to die. Cheers for consumption and materialism. Experiences>things. I like to plan lengthy vacations overseas, in years past this has kept the spark in my heart alive and I realize to get that kind of permission from my company to actually use my PTO they would note my audacity in their HR records (if they were even to grant the request) and I would not be a “team player“ for actually wanting to use my vacation time. Yah fuck them.

I decided I’m resigning and going back to my side hustle one day a week and getting a part-time job where I only have to work two days during the week. I am fortunate that I also have family help so I am in a position to do this. I am just shocked that most of the world has to go through this. It has been eye-opening. This is no way to live. I do not know how you do it and I’m sorry. In the past when I would be applying for full-time jobs, I would think if only they accept me it would be my key to stability and happiness. What a stunning realization that it is actually a surefire way to rob you of all the joy in your life. I guess I am just too much of a free bird for this grind, but I feel like a lot of us have been tricked into thinking the American Dream is only possible if you forfeit all of your time and energy and so we just go along with this plan, and it is a huge fucking lie. Be careful what you wish for.