Antiwork

I work full time at a grocery store. I show up, do what’s asked of me, make sure the product is good quality, treat customers with respect, and work decently hard for at least 75% of the time.

I’m not lazy. I get my work done. But I’m not emotionally invested, and I have no desire to go above and beyond for a job that sees me as replaceable. I was offered a promotion recently, but the raise was only $1 more an hour. I turned it down because:

1. That raise is laughable for the extra responsibility they wanted to dump on me.
2. I know myself, I simply don’t care enough to manage or lead other people.

I don’t care about delegating to part-timers. I don’t care about store numbers. I don’t care what my coworkers are doing. If someone takes an extra-long break? Don’t care. If they call out and I’m left alone? Don’t care.

And I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but even if someone half-asses something and it ends up making more work for me, it still doesn’t bother me. The way I see it, I’m here for 8 hours either way. I’ll go at my own pace, do what I can, and if something doesn’t get finished, that’s not my problem.

I’m also tired of how you walk into a job and everyone’s got pet peeves or weird OCDs about how things have to be done and these aren’t even managers or leads. Just regular workers like me acting like they’re running the place. Meanwhile, I don’t have an issue with anyone or anything. I’m not trying to police people.

I’ll also never understand why people get so mad over what someone else chooses to do with their life. It’s like they’re offended that someone dared to prioritize themselves. Who cares? A coworker recently got all worked up because someone requested a Saturday off and wasn’t there to help us when it was really busy, so we were short-handed. And I’m sitting there thinking, “Good for her! Why don’t you request a Saturday off too and enjoy your life like she is?”

In my mind whether we are fully staffed or understaffed I'm paid the same. I'm not going faster or slower. Is that so wrong?

Don’t get me wrong I totally understand if you’re someone trying to move up in the company. You’ve got to play the game, kiss a little ass, stay extra sharp. I get that. But the people I see getting the most emotionally invested aren’t even trying to move up.

This job gives us money so we can survive (barely, for some). But that doesn’t mean this job is our life. Why is that such a hard concept for people to grasp?

I’m here to make money so I can fund what I actually want to do with my life. Like my passion, my career, the thing that actually gives me purpose. So all this petty shit most of these people removed about? At the end of the day, it truly isn’t that big of a deal.

I know I’m ironically complaining here and being just like them but this has just been on my mind. People stress themselves out over jobs and the people they work with way too much. Especially considering how little the job (or those people) care about you back.

For me, it’s about choosing peace over pointless stress. And this isn’t me saying you should slack off or be a shitty worker...but for God’s sake, have some dignity and don’t let these people (management OR co workers) make you feel bad for having it.

Anyone else relate? Or maybe feel the need to vent.

Edit: Also wanted to add, TAKE YOUR BREAKS.

This is a wide spread phenomenon on the platform. Sometimes its just a few comments or even dozens of comments in response to an original comment on a post being grouped together in another button saying (x number of replies) but when you open those replies its either nothing, or significantly less replies than the prompt described. Its mostly all on posts that are political in nature relating to the current fascist takeover in the USA, Luigi Magnione, amazon union busting, anti laborer’s rights legislation, loosening of child labor laws and other topics related to the wider topics regarding disappearing human rights under emboldening fascist authoritarianism. many of us have seen the news articles that mention allegations of reddit censoring comments and giving people violations for liking certain content but nothing is being said about the actual extent of this censorship. But when you can see hundreds of comments being deleted from a post such as this one here, it doesn't bode well for the future

Along with everything Khalil said we also need to remember (or for thise who dont know already, learn)that the attacks against Palestinian rights advocates that aim to paint the support of resistance organizations as the support of violent terrorists are rooted in ignorance and falsehoods. As international law dictates; resistance to colonial occupation is an inherent right to indigenous populations including armed struggle

The reality is there was no such thing as islamic extremist “terrorism” before middle eastern resistance groups started intertwining marxist ideas to their resistance movements sometime in the 1960’s long after the creation of IsNOTrael as a nation stare.

This nation state was founded upon terrorism funded by a family of central bankers who have for the last century very cleverly used PR agencies and campaigns to cleanse the blood from their hands and paint anyone who dares criticize them as “antisemites”

Theodore Herzel, one of if not the most prominent founders of the zionist state of IsNOTrael went to the patriarch of this family and asked for a loan of 15 million(2.4 billion in today’s money) and they refused because why would they pay for this land when they could leverage their wealth and use the british empire(which they already owned or at the very least had under their thumb, to steal the land from the ottomans for their cause) It was sometime after this proposition by herzel, 1922 to be specific, at the end of the first world war when British prime minister Balfour signed the balfour agreement which verbally y the UK’s intent to creating a home-state for zionists and subsequently gifting this land to this family that for all Intents and purposes was more powerful than the British empire itself, that the British empire took control of Palestine renaming it “British mandate Palestine” for the time being.

This event triggered a ceaseless barrage of Zionist terrorism by 4 main paramilitary groups. The Irgun, Hagannah, Palmach and Lehi(or stern gang) were responsible for dozens if not a hundred or more violent attacks, riots, race mobs, assassinations and heists. Killing somewhere between 5000/8000 Palestinian christians, jews, muslims/arabs, even American and British citizens as well as British infantry. Before the British empire relinquished control of the annexed territory in 1948 giving full control of the land to these violent racist extremists.

Now they made a show and publicly denounced these paramilitary groups as terrorists while also welcoming them with open arms into the newly formed IDF, IAF and Mossad. Many of the high ranking members within their ranks today had family members who were directly involved with these groups such as Bibi Netanyahu himself.

So remember the next time a zionist looks down at you from their high horse and calls you a terrorist sympathizer that not only is the term “terrorist” an ignorant epithet used to minimize the efforts of freedom fighters and empower the oppressors but that before zionist terrorism there was no such thing as middle eastern radical islamic terrorism. There are several well written historically accurate pieces written examining this fact.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19389366

Fuck this village

Seriously. Talk about truth in advertising.

One of my favorite YouTubers posted a video that I think many here would enjoy.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19092090

Robin Hood Army

It's an organization that accepts no money and feeds the poor people through, fit to eat leftover food and also other resources.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26310955

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7086573

CPUSA was fine but suffered from acute management issues on the lower, middle, and upper levels of the organization, imho

I loved learning the history and I highly recommend others learn more about their history and politics (beyond just Settlers and Black Bolshevik, which everyone seems to read before calling it a day, and which are biased against the org, not that bias is necessarily a strike against either; but do get the other side of the story sometime). Honestly, I've never seen an org quite like it. It's so... different, but in a very interesting and fascinating way.

We were also the prime target, or one of the prime targets, of the PatSoc / MAGA communist threat that started around 2019 - 2020, around the time of the pandemic, and incurred a big wave of proto-ACP freaks trying to do mass entryism and sabotage the org. We combated them. I don't regret that. Feds get the wall and I don't mind fending them off, even from a controversial org like CPUSA. The threat lasted until, say, 2024. As the ACP came into being, the entryists seemed to abate and disappear, but not before harassing and attacking trans members, stealing items, and being all-around racist and doing wrecker behavior all the while.

I would highly recommend joining, though I would warn of certain things before you join. Also, whatever one thinks of Nat'l Committee, they are the last of the old guard, and once they're gone, they're gone. So learn what you can from them about the history and tactics and victories gained through them. So yeah, I've seen the obituaries in People's World and cpusa.org and it isn't pretty. Despite disagreements here and there, I do wish them the best, and hope an exchange of ideas between the Nat'l Committee and the new rank-and-file can continue. I'm not sure what to think about their recent comments of self-criticism castigating themselves as "tailist" regarding the Democratic Party as, in general, I've seen how things can get topsy-turvy with people like Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin in charge (compared to the previous Dems). Joe Sims' recent comments also gave me pause, though Joe Sims was ever the leftist of the organization (compared to, say, John Bachtell, who is more right deviationist, I feel).

We grew a lot in the last 5 years, though whether we can maintain that growth, and retain the new members (however many we retain) is another matter.

I'm thinking of starting a club for Southern Workers Assembly here in upper region of Virginia (I'm just above the central area of Virginia, or maybe I should consider myself to be in the central area, from the looks of things, but often have access and go around NoVa, or northern Virginia).

If anyone lives in NoVa, the DMV area, or the metro area of D.C., please, PLEASE tell me so we can maybe meet-up and jumpstart the club or Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) org here in NoVa (we already have one in Richmond and I believe other places in Virginia).

Lastly, I have a YouTube/TikTok video about the CPC (the one in China, that is) coming up soon. Does anyone want to be pinged for when I upload it? It's been a while since I posted one. The TikTok version will, of course, be broken into several parts.

Also, I'm in a book club for the AFL-CIO in this state, but it's open to other people outside of Virginia.

Let me know if you want to join and I'll send you the link.

If anyone has recommendations on which org to join next, please tell me, but also, I'm practicing "self-care" and that means not going back to the same activism that gave me stress all the while, even if I encountered good things as well. FRSO seems interesting. But I'm not interested in another political party org. What else is there?

Cheers, everyone! Just had to get some of this off my chest and reflect on what has happened these past 5 years since the start of the pandemic. I hope nobody was offended by some of the negative comments about CPUSA. There were a... lot of internal issues, it seemed to me. And my mental health took a toll in the last year. I don't think I'm going back. But I wish to maintain my friendships with several CPUSA members in the org as I really respected them.

Anyway, I was noticeably vague about my time in there and so I'll leave it at that.

Oh yeah, and join the Southern Workers Assembly if you're in the South or Mid-west! Let me know if you're around central or northern Virginia and hit me up through DM.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18476518

The day to buy nothing, to make the corporations and governments experience our power. ☮️

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28th FEB 2025

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I think it's the closest to anti-work life. I've been working to create a network of people and communities living without money. To show people an alternative system. A moneyless society.

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17969419

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Hi there, Tradeless Earth is trying to work towards a peaceful, stronger, just and equal society by holding hands with individuals and communities to work together and be connected.

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17340151

"The ecovillage at Findhorn is a tangible demonstration of the links between the spiritual, social, and economic aspects of life and is a synthesis of current thinking on ecological human habitats. It is a constantly evolving model providing solutions to human and social needs while at the same time working in partnership with the environment to offer an enhanced quality of life for all."

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He speaks like a cartoon villain in a kid's TV show yet thinks it's everyone else who needs to grow the hell up.

EDIT: APPARENTLY THIS IS NOT A REAL TWEET. I fell for it and reposted it, sorry for the misinformation!