Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/YepperyYepstein on 2025-11-13 19:25:16+00:00.

Original Title: A question I was asked in a recent job interview surprised me: "Are you sure you aren't looking for a new role out of fear of an impending or ongoing restructure or mass layoff at your current position?"

I was not applying for that reason, so I answered the question honestly, but what is disconcerting to me is the fact that that question would be used as a filter question.

For example, what if there were a mass layoff at a company? And, for very good reasons, I preemptively calculated the risk of being randomly laid off without severance (no guaranteed severance in my state), and decided to apply elsewhere for the good of my home and family?

Is the employee not allowed to calculate risk in the same way the company does? The company continually calculates risk and routinely makes sweeping, secret, last-minute layoff decisions. But somehow the behavior of an employee wanting to survive a layoff or restructure is suspect and red-flagged?

It truly feels sometimes like the powerful CEOs, MBAs, and executives in the United States gain a degree of delight out of the power imbalance and rug-pull nature of reorgs and mass layoffs. Some would say it's to keep workers productive without them worrying until the last possible second about walking directly into the slaughterhouse, but I truly am beginning to think some executives delight in watching the frantic scurrying of employees who trusted the system to be loyal to them a little too much.

The enormity of being laid off or even facing the possibility of a layoff is so understated by the media and those with greater economic security in the United States. I believe it was someone from Amazon that recently acknowledged mass layoffs, but also followed up that it wasn't even about saving money. The layoffs are simply about the "culture" of modern work in the US. That viewpoint in itself says the quiet part out loud: they want you to be desperate and scrambling in a minefield loaded with possible layoffs at every turn, just so you stay on your toes so they can watch you hate it.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/luciaromanomba on 2025-11-13 19:22:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Yodest_Data on 2025-11-13 18:20:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/BloodSteyn on 2025-11-13 07:53:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/esporx on 2025-11-13 07:09:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Power-Equality on 2025-11-13 05:49:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/AdSpecialist6598 on 2025-11-13 03:06:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Previous_Month_555 on 2025-11-13 02:01:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/rajapaws on 2025-11-13 01:33:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/tarantulesbian on 2025-11-13 01:18:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/esporx on 2025-11-13 00:47:47+00:00.

Original Title: Deaf Tesla employee fired after complaining that ‘extreme heat’ in Gigafactory made hearing aids malfunction. Exclusive: Hans Kohls’s hearing aids could not withstand the 1,220°F temperatures involved in metal casting.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/thequickfix123 on 2025-11-13 00:29:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/3RADICATE_THEM on 2025-11-13 00:18:36+00:00.

Original Title: Neoliberals are fucking hilarious—yeah, people could afford to buy median houses / rent working minimum wage in the 70s, but things are totally better now because muh 'inflation-adjusted' dollars (which totally doesn't underweight essentials like housing and healthcare) say so!

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/futureamateur on 2025-11-12 21:41:25+00:00.

My work schedule is 12 hours on Monday, then the lunch shift on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Total 25 hours

My manager wants me to work the lunch shift for every weekday including Wednesday now, which would be fine but I reserve the free weekday I have to seeing a professor (office closes at around 5 pm) and studying for grad school next semester, since I’m going to be in grad school for something I didn’t do in undergrad (long story). I’ve also reserved the weekends to seeing my girlfriend.

This time though, my manager is really pushing working every weekday lunch shift onto me and telling me that my work schedule is so easy I should be able to do one extra day. And now I’m feeling bad if I say no.

Am I being an entitled asshole for saying I can’t? Im only really working 25 hours for a job I don’t need that much. I’m contemplating asking her if me leaving would make scheduling easier since I do agree hiring one person for a weekday is unnecessary

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/JamesParkes on 2025-11-12 21:22:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/stefanhk on 2025-11-12 20:18:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Ihadenough1000 on 2025-11-12 19:17:08+00:00.

Only people with a low intensity level job can "work" for 8-10 hours every day and then claim that after that you should do chores or the household or exercise.

And if you are not active 16 out of 24 hours every day you are supposedly a failure and have "bad time management".

First if you can still do a lot of activities after 8-10 hours of work, then your" work" is on such a low level that its contrary to what 90% of people have to do at their job.

Second, humans were not ment to be active 16 hours of the day non stop. Long Siestas were the norm until the industrial age.

This total maximization and rationalization of free time and blaming people for not doing it is nothing more than Capitalist ideology invading private time.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/SufficientTea6696 on 2025-11-12 19:08:09+00:00.

Just wanted to vent somewhere where people would understand. My partner works for local government. A couple months ago she was yanked back into the office. Didn't see it coming. She's unionized, but honestly the union seems to be struggling to find a legal path to push back. She went from a hybrid model of spending a couple of days in a local office alternating with wfh to commuting daily to a city-based HQ over 2 hours away. 4 hours of commuting every day. In a city we can't afford.

I thought, well, maybe since I am 100% remote in an IT related job, then at least I'm safe. I can take on the house cleaning and chores. I can cook for us. Maybe we can move to that city once our lease is up in 6 months. We can figure it out. Sure, it has hurt our finances. Sure, it's a rough adjustment. But we can manage.

Nope. My workplace is now flirting with the same RTO ever since the government put in the policy. They've been putting in more and more draconic rules, I think to get us used to the idea. First, the paperwork to justify our wfh. Then being required to be on camera in every meeting. More and more "requests" to be on site. More in person required meetings. There's bad rumours going around.

My partner and I are screwed. My job's HQ is in a different city. 2 hours away in the opposite direction.

Does it matter that we took these jobs because they were remote? No. Does it matter that we've done them for years without issue remotely? No. Does it matter than when they finally pull the trigger that it'll cause a wave of retirements and institutional knowledge loss? Of course not, they don't give a shit.

I've been trying to be proactive. I got nervous last spring with all of the other RTO announcements and have been applying for jobs almost all year to try to get us in the same region. When my partner got pulled in, I redoubled the effort. I've had only one interview. Didn't get the job, obvs. We have historically bad unemployment happening in the city she's being forced to come back into, as well.

What are people supposed to do? We're just lines in a spreadsheet. I'm sure they'd love us to just quit. I don't want to go through the social humiliation of being fired to avoid quitting, but damn. I hate all of this. It's disgustingly cruel. And for what? To please some corporate landlords? To keep a dysfunctional system pasted together with increasingly desperate actions to claw back what it was like before COVID? We're people with lives!

And you know, I would have been fine with in person work if it was necessary and something I am skilled at doing that contributed something to do the world. But we can't even have that. Just all this anxiety and cruelty for an economy that doesn't even work.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Low-Beyond-5335 on 2025-11-12 19:00:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/WittyEgg2037 on 2025-11-12 18:10:14+00:00.

People talk about “the deficit” like it’s a hole in the ground we’re all about to fall into. It’s not. It’s literally numbers in a spreadsheet. The USA creates dollars by typing digits into existence.

There’s no vault of gold. There’s just trust, code, and political theater. They tell you “we can’t afford healthcare,” then immediately print billions for war or corporate bailouts. So it’s not about money ,it’s about what they choose to value.

Money is an idea we agreed to pretend is real. The tragedy is that we believe in numbers more than people.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Particular_Sale_7711 on 2025-11-12 17:45:32+00:00.

So my dad saw an ad for this AI tool which makes those interactive product demos and now he’s completely sold on it. He’s been talking about “modernizing” his office with it like it's gonna change the face of his company completely.

I tried telling him these things always sound magical in ads, but in reality, they create a whole lot of mess for employees and then they're gonna start hating him. I did a bit of research, and turns out this ad he saw, it's demos are super heavy and slow down websites, you can barely change how they look, and the analytics don’t tell you much. Basically, it looks cool until you actually have to work with it.

Now he’s planning to pitch it at his office meeting and I’m just sitting here like, "Dad, please, not every new AI tool is a revolution. You're really gonna give your employees a nightmare to deal with daily."

If anyone has any idea on how to convince him, please tell me.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/cookerdoer on 2025-11-12 17:44:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/justcurious3287 on 2025-11-12 17:48:28+00:00.

What in the hell is the justification for that? Are they trying to just starve the poor so there's nobody left?

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Garrden on 2025-11-12 17:05:23+00:00.

All 6 staff members walk out the next day after the store manager was fired. Workers complain of low staffing levels such as typically being the only worker in the store as well as theft of accrued sick time.

The store is located in Esperance NY, at the intersection of US rt 20 and NY rt 30.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/staff-esperance-dollar-general-walks-job-work-21153864.php

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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Sufficient-Pride-967 on 2025-11-12 17:01:06+00:00.