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Best job i ever had was maintenance guy at a nursing home. Loved it. Rewarding. Fulfilling. Paid only $10.75/hr so i left it and 'developed my career' and now im 'successful' but at least once a week i have dreams where im back in the home hanging pictures, flirtin with the ol gals, being useful.

So when people ask 'who fixes toilets under communism?' my answer is a resounding 'me. I will fix the toilets.'

Very much inspired by the recent post about what anti work actually means. If you were free from the “work or starve” paradigm, what would you do with your time? No wrong answers.

Personally, I would like to spend more time outside cultivating food and fiber. (Fiber here meaning growing flax for linen, raising angora rabbits or even goats or sheep for their fiber, etc. I am big into textiles)

This is a goal I pursue even now, because my current job is high paying and 4 days a week and I want to use that relative privilege to gain skills that help my communities. Speaking of, I’m also a big fan of community organising, which is another thing I’d want to keep doing post-work.

But like I said, no wrong answers! You don’t have to have a plan for how you’d serve your community. Some of us wouldn’t. And most of us don’t have the time to even think of what we could do for our communities. For that last case, I hope this discussion can be inspiring!

On Twitter:

ALL DEMANDS MET! $84,000 in back pay and consequential damages to be given to the 9 illegally terminated Jollibee workers. 🐝✊🏽

After months of pressure, the Justice for Jollibee Workers campaign is declaring VICTORY after Jollibee finalized a settlement for reinstatement, back pay, and a public apology.

The settlement comes after the leadership of 9 workers backed by community members who came together to hold this corporation accountable.

This is a powerful first phase of a movement to organize Jollibee workers around the globe. We know that the issues of Journal Square is not an isolated case.

Workers around the world are experiencing labor issues such as wage theft, chronic understaffing and scheduling issues, misclassification of workers, and worker mistreatment.

If you are you are worker or know a Jollibee Worker who wants to fight back, contact us at [email protected].

Other sources :

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-31/bangladesh-garment-workers-clash-with-police-over-wage-demands#xj4y7vzkg, 31 octobre 2023 at 12:53 UTC+1

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231103-bangladesh-protests-halt-production-for-top-fashion-brands-union-1 Issued on: 03/11/2023 - 16:13Modified: 03/11/2023 - 17:54

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/bangladesh-garment-workers-clash-police-factories-reopen-3897031, 04 Nov 2023 09:18PM

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-garment-workers-clash-with-police-as-factories-reopen/article67498634.ece,November 04, 2023 09:33 pm | Updated 09:33 pm IST - Dhaka

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/anarchism/t/36133

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1334427

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One of the most erudite anti-work texts that describes what work is and how it takes part in social reproduction.

What’s your time worth to you? What importance do you place on your physical and mental health? And how many hours a week do you work? How much is that in a year? How much in a lifetime? Is it worth it? Do you feel like that’s a life well spent?

You probably don’t and you shouldn’t.

Archived Version

During my years as a marketing translator I've probably translated the phrase 'in today's fast-paced business environment' or some variations thereof hundreds of times. These words raise my heart rate when I read them, and I eventually had to give up marketing translation as I wasn't capable of normalizing living in a fast-paced environment.

I'm not even sure who created this fast-paced environment, and is now expecting me, a tiny human, to keep up with it. Forces me to rush my children into it too, prepared to get prepared for the modern life, clad in ever freshly-washed garments and with their faces washed, and shoes tied well, early in the morning. Become a productive citizen, now!

And it gets worse - to keep up with the rush I'm offered products. Machines, more machines, so I can do everything fast enough for the fast-paced environment. All while the real, actual, living environment goes down the drain, also ever more quickly. Nobody gets to rest in this fast-paced environment, we are all constantly running. From what?

In the same vein I'm encouraged to make my free time worthwhile - why not monetize it somehow? Do what I always wanted: become a writer, a video artist! So I pull my brains, quickly. Put something out there, make it bright, make a lot (with the convenient tools offered us so we can keep up with the rush) because otherwise it will drown in all the other content out there.

Then the tiredness creeps in, endless content scrolling by, and we all get more tired by consuming/producing/consuming/producing mile by mile of this ludicrous mixture of bright content and dystopian news, and the fast-paced environment getting faster. Who are we anymore? For some reason, we cannot exist in the fast-paced environment. It must be us, maybe it's a mental illness?

If we forced an animal to run in a fast-paced threadmill all day, what would happen? What if we forced the animal to run a little more, by withholding food or threatening to do so? How many hours more could the animal run, for how long, before breakdown? Or would someone step in and stop whoever does shit like this to an animal?

The tiredness is telling us to rest, like the tired animals we are, and slow down the consuming, and producing, of things without substance and nutritious value.

Vice — In depressingly relatable news, the phrase "I am tired" is at its most googled point in the history of Google Trends.

The search term's chart looks like a wildly successful stock, climbing steadily since Google Trends data began in 2004, and peaking in late August, with inhabitants of South Dakota and Utah searching for the phrase more than anyone else.

So: why all the interest? Let's speculate. First suggestion: the change in season can make some people feel a bit sleepy. Shorter days disrupt sleep cycles, and lower levels of sunlight can affect your serotonin levels.

But on a more existential level: a Gallup poll published last year found that the world was sadder and more stressed than ever before, thanks – of course – to the pandemic, but also economic uncertainty and the fact that bad news is more available than at any point in history, because of devices like the one you’re reading this on right now. To make matters worse, last year, a poll by Future Forum found that burnout from workplace stress is at an all-time high.

The eight myths of work:

1. Work is necessary
2. Work is productive
3. Work creates wealth
4. You need to work to make a living
5. Work is a path to fulfillment
6. Work instills initiative
7. Work provides security
8. Work teaches responsibility