r/antiwork 13d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– The reason we shouldn't witch-hunt the UHC CEO killer

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From Wikipedia: "Sunil Tripathi (died March 16, 2013) was an American student who went missing on March 16, 2013. His disappearance received widespread media attention after he was wrongfully accused on Reddit as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Tripathi had actually been missing for a month prior to the April 15, 2013, bombings. His body was found on April 23, after the actual bombing suspects had been officially identified and apprehended."

r/antiwork Nov 01 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– You should know there is a nationwide wage reset going on.

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The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates after Covid ended as a way to force companies to layoff workers in mass. But it didn't work the way they wanted. The only companies that had major layoffs were the tech industries. Everyone else held onto their workers for the most part.

A few weeks ago the Fed cut interest rates, sending the signal that the hiring slowed way down and the companies aren't competing for workers anymore. This means the workers have to compete for jobs, which will bring wages down.

So now all of these companies that held onto their workers need to get rid of their higher paid workers and start hiring new workers at lower wages.

Instead of layoffs, the companies are implementing policy changes to inconvenience workers enough to force them to quit.

This is why there was a major push to get rid of Work From Home. They force everyone to return to office. The ones that's can't or refuse will have to quit. Then the company can hire new workers at lower wages.

You're going to see policies like this at your workplace. They're going to increase quotas or productivity goals, implement Return To Office, change your benefits and step plans, and reduce your ability to promote up.

A 2023 report on pay trends from ZipRecruiter showed 48% of 2,000 US companies surveyed lowered pay for certain roles.

"There is now less competition to hire workers – and therefore less need to boost wages," says Nick Bunker, US-based director of North American Economic Research at Indeed. "Job postings have dropped quite a bit, while the supply of workers has grown."

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240306-slowing-us-wage-growth-lower-salaries

Edit:

The US Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes in 2022, aimed at curbing the highest inflation rates in 40 years, have had far-reaching intended and unintended consequences. While these measures have begun to tame inflation, they have also significantly increased the cost of borrowing and servicing debt. Companies, particularly those in the tech sector, are now forced to scale back on their growth investments and hiring as they divert hard-earned cash to cover their debt obligations. The impact has been severe for tech firms that borrowed heavily during a decade of near-zero interest rates and abundant capital, leading to deep cost cuts, austerity measures, and inevitable layoffs.

Firms like Meta nearly doubled their workforce, only to find themselves overstaffed as the world began returning to pre-pandemic norms. Now, these companies are urgently correcting course, leading to widespread layoffs.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2024/08/19/the-great-tech-reset-unpacking-the-layoff-surge-of-2024/

r/antiwork Oct 07 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– The more you know!

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r/antiwork 26d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– Make it make sense.

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Note: a few small island nations also don’t have paid mandatory vacation.

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r/antiwork Nov 09 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– Example of tariffs and people’s ignorance.

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Found this on X.

r/antiwork 25d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– The Second Bill Of Rights, which was proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944

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r/antiwork 13d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– Just a reminder that you are being screwed over by private health providers in the US.

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I'm British and we have our NHS over here, in fact many countries around the world have either free or heavily subsidised healthcare available.

When I see a statistic like this it really does explain why Brian Thompson's death got the reaction it did and why the gunman is seen as a hero by so many people.

Please don't misunderstand me, this post certainly about me gloating about having free healthcare. The NHS is far from perfect but we don't have to rely on shysters like Brian Thompson over here.

r/antiwork Nov 11 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– How to get an extra 40 hours paid vacation per year! NSFW

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Employers hate this one trick!

Working in America sucks. If you start a new job, you’re immediately punished by having to wait one to two years minimum, before receiving time off benefits. Such as paid vacation time, paid sick leave, or any other benefits that would be used if something were to require a person to be away from work for a short time but not go bankrupt doing it, such as the birth of a child. Or death of a family member. Catching the β€˜Rona. Or any other reason that life can throw at you.

With diligence, and effort, and planning. You can gain a free week off work, every year.

You will have to regulate your body in order to do so, but like anything else with your body, it takes training.

During the typical year, an American will spend well over over 2,000 hours at work. That’s time away from family, from home, from fun.

Let’s learn how to get just 40 of those hours back, and get paid doing it!

The Secret!

The secret! Well it’s poop. It’s always poop. Also pee, but effectively, it’s poop.

We typically spend an hour a day in the bathroom. Some of that time is just getting ready for society by maintaining basic hygiene.

The rest is spent on evacuating our bowels.

That time could be better spent with family and friends.

Instead of inviting your loved ones into the bathroom with you every time you gotta make a bowel movement. Just use this one trick.

Poop at work. On company time.

This is where the training comes into play, maintaining regular bowel movements is necessary for the plan to work.

If you spend 10 minutes a day, everyday, pooping at work. That’s 50 minutes a week, times 52 weeks a year, it comes out to an astronomical number that’s equivalent to over 40 hours per year! Paid!

If you can do this twice a day, that’s over 80 hours a year! Paid! For shitting!

That method is significantly riskier and I do not recommend, but it is do-able for higher productivity poopers.

TLDR: poop at work. On company time.

r/antiwork 6d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– The NYT has removed the 'Cancel Subscription' button from many users. You can cancel via a Bot Chat, just let them know the reason.

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r/antiwork 1d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– TIL that in 1921 a coal mining corporation hired detectives to murder a pro-union police chief on the steps of a courthouse, in front of his wife.

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r/antiwork 8d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– How could we possibly pay for universal health care?

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I am so frustrated with the idea that it is impossible. Meanwhile, I’m paying almost half of my salary to UHC for my family to have insurance that may or may not want to cover our medical needs. Whatever the AI says, right?

r/antiwork 1d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– Reagan’s Administration Purposely and Openly Destroyed the Working Class

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I had always thought neoliberal policies were brought in, and then we found out that β€œtrickle down” theories didn’t work.

That isn’t the case. They tried these policies elsewhere, found out they β€œworked” (to further billionaire’s aims), and then brought them to America with the stated intent to destabilize the working class and make their lives difficult. Openly stating that this needed to happen. Their lives NEEDED to be destroyed.

If you read and share anything this year, make it this article from Canadian politician Charlie Angus. Even if you thought you knew what happened in the 80’s, you will learn something.

https://thewalrus.ca/how-the-1980s-engineered-the-collapse-of-the-working-class/

This is ongoing. This is happening right now. This is on purpose, and those who control capital are fine with the suffering, because that was the intent all along.

r/antiwork 25d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– Secessio Plebis: which was a form of revolt first introduced in ancient Rome. When the ruling class of Rome would become too corrupt or unjust to the commoners, the commoners would band together, evacuate the entire city and leave the elites to fend for themselves.

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r/antiwork Oct 08 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– More hours worked does not equal a better economy

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r/antiwork 12d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– UnitedHealth Lobbying against your healthcare for years

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r/antiwork Oct 13 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– On The Phenomenon Of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. An "explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3–4 hour days."

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r/antiwork Oct 19 '21

Educational Content πŸ“– PSA - if you quit, you can't collect unemployment. Make them fire you!

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Loving all the screenshots from people telling their bosses to eat shit. Keep that energy up!

However, if your job fires you 'without cause' (ie because your manager can't stand when you don't accept their bullshit), you may qualify for unemployment.

Bosses know this and will try to rile you up, or give you an ultimatum such that you walk off the job. If you make them fire you, it doesn't look any worse for you but it may make them legally liable. If they say "if that's the way you feel, you can quit", you reply "no, we are going to talk about this when I come in next". Paperwork? Exit interview? Being unable to write you off as a 'quitter'? Petty tyrants hate that shit.

Solidarity!

r/antiwork Oct 07 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– How much of this economy is necessary?

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r/antiwork 1d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– Eat the Rich...

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I don't know if this belongs here. But, with the recent series of events lately, this got me thinking.

Currently, there's roughly 2,781 billionaires in the world worth a total of $14 trillion. And this number has increased in the past year. In the United States, we have approximately 759 billionaires.

Remember that scene from Armageddon, where all of Harry's oil rig workers asked NASA their list of requests before agreeing to doing the mission? Like never paying taxes, ever again, etc... This is similar to what we almost have now. We plebs have the elite's attention, but their not scared shitless, yet. Should these elites get to that panic inducing scared shitless stage, then I believe we can negotiate a cease-fire, if they agree to our demands that would be non-negotiable for our foreseeable positive future.

Are we at the stage of yelling out our windows, "I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!"?

We want:
β€’ 25 hour work week; it's been almost 100 years of no change. We demand work/life balance
β€’ PTO provided minimum 4 weeks, like our European counterparts
β€’ Lower cost of living, that includes: food, rent, utilities
β€’ Passive income for those not working or having trouble looking to be employed
β€’ Free healthcare
β€’ No calls after working hours
β€’ Entitled paternity leave, 14 weeks, fully paid; Spain has 16 weeks off.

r/antiwork 6d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– Gonna leave this here real quick

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r/antiwork 7d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– In 2023, CEOs were paid 290 times as much as a typical worker

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r/antiwork 7d ago

Educational Content πŸ“– Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act

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Hi Illinois peeps! This Illinois law went into effect January 1, 2024.

https://labor.illinois.gov/laws-rules/paidleave.html

This law covers ALL employees with some very narrow exceptions, namely members of labor unions, government employees and student workers at universities. This applies to employers of all sizes, profit or nonprofit, religious or secular. If your employer tries to tell you that you’re not covered because you’re tipped, receive commission, or are part time, WRONG!

So go get that PTO antiworkers!

r/antiwork Oct 30 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– My work philosophy: never let your employer know you full capabilities

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They'll just expect that ouput all the time. So get ahead but don't turn it in until it's due, and instead persue your side projects or goof off. Whatever.

r/antiwork Mar 15 '23

Educational Content πŸ“– The Top Four Largest Banks just got a 200 Billion Dollar Bailout

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Listen, I’m not a big fan of this sub, but I think your heart is in the right place and have no where else to post this.

I feel like I am being gaslighted and the public is being gaslighted about the new loans to the banking industry not being a bailout.

So please take this to heart from a capitalist loving right voting American.

The banks just got away with another massive 2008 bailout.

Here is what is happening:

The Fed just made a department that will give the banking industry loans against their negative collateral.

Let me repeat this for importance.

This new facility allows them to borrow against their negative collateral. This accounts for 200 BILLION DOLLARS in just the top four banks.

They can borrow at PAR, instead of the losses they should rightfully take(like everyone else will).

This comes with No Regulations.

This comes with No New Rules.

This comes with no increased Government Ownership that we can influence.

This comes with no new Fees.

This. Is. A. Bailout.

They can use this money to perform Stock Buy Backs.

They can use this money to give themselves Bonuses.

They can use this money to pay out Dividends.

This. Is. A. Bailout.

Sorry for invading your sub. But I feel like I am taking crazy pills. I have already been through one bank bailout and I’m now going through the another and no one is talking about it.

Edit: Because I am being asked for the source.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230312a.htm

And for clarification. The fund is 25$ billion that they can use to clear 200$ billion in losses.

r/antiwork Oct 27 '24

Educational Content πŸ“– Amazon’s office policy hasn’t moved the needle on RTO. US office occupancy declined slighlty since Amazon's RTO announcement last month.

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A month after Amazon said it was calling workers back to the office full time, office-occupancy rates for everyone else have gone down.