I don't get it, isn't the whole point of a business is to retire early?

I've worked too many hours

to be broke

and stuck

at my grandma's house.

That sentence alone should be proof

that something is deeply wrong.

But instead of outrage,

I'm met with shrugs,

lectures,

and a thousand excuses.

They tell me this is normal.

It is not.

This is failure.

Not mine--

the system's.

We were told:

Work hard.

Get educated.

Play by the rules.

Success will follow.

But we did all that--

and we're still sinking.

Not because we're lazy.

Because the game is rigged,

and the rules were written

by people who no longer play by them.

Our parents don't understand.

Not because they're bad people.

But because the world they grew up in

doesn't exist anymore.

And admitting that

would mean everything they believed in

was a lie.

So they deny it.

And in that denial,

they pass down our pain

as if it's our fault.

But we see it.

We feel it.

We know the truth:

Suffering is not noble.

Struggle is not sacred.

And survival is not the meaning of life.

There is enough.

Enough food.

Enough housing.

Enough wealth.

The only thing missing

is permission to share it.

They use the generational divide as a wedge.

Father against son.

Mother against daughter.

Because a divided people

is a controlled people.

But the real war isn't between us--

it's between awareness

and denial.

The scariest part?

The world doesn't have to be this way.

And deep down,

most people know it.

But they're scared.

Because if they admit it,

they have to change.

And change is terrifying

when comfort is all you've ever known.

I believe there is a plan--

not to fix the system,

but to push it

right to the brink.

To make collapse

the teacher.

But I don't want to learn through wreckage.

I want to learn through realization.

Through truth.

Through unity.

Because if we wait for the crash,

the vultures will write the next chapter.

And they'll call it salvation.

We don't have to burn it all down.

We just have to stop

pretending

this is fine.

This is a call.

Not to arms--

but to awareness.

To clarity.

To courage.

If you feel what I feel,

say it.

Share it.

Scream it if you must.

Because somewhere,

someone is drowning in silence

waiting for a voice

that sounds like truth.

You might be that voice.

Yesterday a woman told me she has been following me and taken photos of me, has anyone had this happen to them?

Anyone know which companies are helping funding or backing this bill

Feel like we are all fed up and agree on all the same things but we don’t do anything about it. How can we take action?

How much Land does a man need? By Leo Tolstoy

The answer may surprise you!

I worked for an American employer for the first time in a decade from May 2024 to January this year. Employer was toxic and two faced. Prior to this, I worked for a Europe-based company (let's say HQ was in Poland). Unfortunately I was let go so that other parts of the company could survive. 3 other people were let go on the same day as me.

The American employer hired me without a contract and fired me just as quickly, except they made me sign a termination agreement. I also relocated to America to work for this employer - once again, without contract. When my European employer terminated me, they told me 30 days in advance and I handed over my work to an outsourced team of 4 people with 30 days to train them.

I got injured working for the American company, but the injury was not at work. It was on a day off while we were deployed at a work location. Did not qualify for workman's comp, did not qualify for social security. I worked at some companies in Asia and it was written into my contract that on sick days I would be paid half of my salary assuming I worked 8 hours a day, so I would be paid for 4 hours daily while I recover.

I just had another job interview for a remote position at a European company. They asked about my previous two jobs and I told them my American employer hired me without a contract, which they thought was strange, and then I told them, "You can be hired in America just as quickly as you can be fired."

Most people have never heard of Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, but it might be one of the most important court cases in the history of American capitalism.

Back in 1916, Henry Ford wanted to lower the price of his cars and raise wages for his workers. The company was making massive profits, and he thought some of that money should go back into the people who helped build it.

But the Dodge brothers, who were shareholders, sued him. They wanted bigger payouts instead of lower prices or better pay. And in 1919, they won.

The court ruled that a company exists to make money for its shareholders. Not to do good. Not to help workers. Just to turn profit and send it upward. That was it.

That ruling changed everything. After that, even if a company wanted to do the right thing, it could be punished for it. Helping people became a liability.

We like to think capitalism is broken now, but maybe this is exactly how it was designed to work. Or at least how it was allowed to evolve.

This post is based on ideas from
The Last American Dream: Welcome to the End

"The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth."

-Jeff Owski

How $450 million in fossil fuel donations shaped White House energy policy and dismantled climate progress. Check out the entire list of corruption in Trump's first week: https://open.substack.com/pub/luciaromanomba/p/six-weeks-of-corruption-senator-chris

I work for a banking software company. The great part is that it’s remote, but it goes downhill from there. I was hired to provide application support, apply patches, email admin, assist users, etc . During my interview, it was mentioned there would be occasional weekends. I agreed that wouldn’t be an issue. My last job required a rotation on a weekend of every 4-5 weeks.

In the last 6 months since I started, I’ve worked almost every weekend not only applying patches but doing full system upgrades, I won’t list everything I do, but believe me, they are substantial and take anywhere from 4-6 hours. I’ve been asked to manage 2 datacenter hypervisor environments consisting of 100 prod, qa and test servers. Also, yesterday I was asked to conduct a security-vulnerability assessment on one of the datacenter hypervisors. I’m putting in around 60 hours a week. On top of that, I have 2 full system upgrades this weekend. So my weekend is cooked again.

With all this. I’m still learning everything about this software application to understand and get to a certain level of competency. I find it almost impossible to get good at any of this given my arms are being pulled from all directions. I have to do several careers wrapped into one - tech support, software development, sql admin, infrastructure engineering and cybersecurity. Surely many think this is great experience. Learning and actually having the responsibility are 2 different things. I don’t want the stress of taking on highly visible tasks that I’m not proficient in. I’m still trying to learn the job I was hired for. It’s gotten so overwhelming I’ve gone to Fiverr to seek a cybersecurity specialist to help me do the assessment. Yes I’m paying out of my pocket for this.

My boss is clueless and has zero IT knowledge or experience, he gets all his ideas from ChatGPT. I have constant anxiety on his next dumb idea he’ll read about and ask me to do. And yes, I am actively applying for other gigs.

Location: Ohio

As the title says I was hurt at work and given a weeks worth of pain medication by the hospital to treat the injury.

I returned to work at the beginning of the following week and worked for two days and on the third day ways given a write up for the accident as they are trying to push blame. and o was sent home and told I'm not allowed to preform any production activities under the influence of a drug that may cause dizziness or drowsiness. My script was up that day and they're being incredibly difficult about answering weather im being compensated for the involuntary time off or my ability to return to work saying it's tied up in corporate and they're not getting answers.

What are my options here, as I stand to lose around 30 hours of pay for this week so far.

I am a home care nurse, (pediatrics) my supervisor called to let me know about a possible new patient and to meet her at their house to do an assessment. On Tuesday we meet up at the patient’s house. An older lady answers the door and states she’s the grandmother, we introduce ourselves and she invites us in. The house is very unkept, with clothes and trash lying everywhere, dishes in the sink, and empty boxes stacked up. Grandmother talked with us for a few minutes apologized about the house and said “It’s been rough, the cat died.”

We didn't end up assessing the patient as the grandmother wasn't her guardian, and the guardian was “taking care of court business.” Fast forward to today when the guardian /mom of the patient is going to be there. She answers the door and says “ Before you come in, I have to apologize about the house and the smell, the cat died and I don't know what to do with it, so it's “sleeping” in the chair”. I just stood there in shock and was at a loss for words. My supervisor said, “Excuse me, did you just say there was a dead cat in the chair?” The lady responded, “Yes, what should I do, call 911?” Supervisor told her, “No you will need to bury it”. “Oh ok, I will have a little funeral for him THIS WEEKEND, come on in.” Needless to say, we declined and supervisor explained it wasn't healthy to leave the cat in the house, but the lady said she didn't want to “just leave him outside, he’ll be ok, maybe I’ll put him in the fridge”. Supervisor finally convinced her to call animal control, which she did. However, we still left and CPS was notified about the condition of the house and safety concerns.

So I just found out I may have gotten discriminated against.. here's what happened. I was hired and offered a job as a Pharmacy Clerk, as part of a grocery store. Part-time.

So I started my training, a bunch of videos, which was all good and well. The manager walked me over to introduce me at the pharmacy that I'll be their new and only clerk.

Without missing a beat, the head person at the pharmacy "we don't need a clerk, we just hired a pharmacy tech" okay. So the manager walked me out of the pharmacy, and offered me a job at customer service instead. Me being a team player and all I agreed.

Weeks later, as I'm working my job there, chatting with someone who works at the pharmacy, they tell me the tech they hired was a no show for their first day of work.

Fast forward to today, I go to the pharmacy, to my surprise, there's a pharmacy clerk.. She's a woman and white.

The reason I mention those 2 things: I'm male, the pharmacy is currently %100 staffed by women, I'm an immigrant, and a person who's name is VERY obvious that I am an immigrant.

Also, I used to work in mental health, I'm well versed in HIPAA, and have experience helping people with their medications. That was my last job up until months ago, so I'm definitely qualified to work as a pharmacy clerk.

After telling a family member, I was told I'm thinking too much into it. They didn't mean to discriminate against me in any way....

For me it feels like they took one look at a guy working there, along with my name and used the tech being hired as an excuse not to have me there.

I have the job offer letter, in my email,saying clearly that I was hired for pharmacy clerk.

I'm not too attached to this job, I also have a different full-time job. I've started applying for other part-time jobs. As I do need a part-time job to make ends meet at the moment.

Do I have enough proof to do anything about what happened? So far my only plan is to find some other part-time job. Go have a talk with the manager ask them why I wasn't told about the job at the pharmacy opening up again. I would have liked her to tell me "the tech was a no showz do you want to work at the pharmacy still?". If the conversation doesn't go anywhere close to "oh you still want to work at the pharmacy, let me update the paperwork" I'll be giving my noticez which I will have pre-typed and printed then and there saying the reason I'm quitting is because I feel I have been discriminated against....

Thoughts? Suggestions? Was I actually not discriminated against?

Update: to clarify, I'm not looking to sue, I'm looking for opinions if I was discriminated against or not

Update: the new clerk who was hired, she is a highschool graduate. I have a bachelor's degree

For the last nine months, I’ve been hazed by my team. The only reason I’ve survived this long is because one (ONE) person on my team refused to participate or look the other way. He stuck by me when I became a pariah. I’m forever grateful for that.

My supervisor told me it’s my fault. I’m “unlikeable” and “not endearing.” I needed to get over it. Do better work. Don’t be so needy or annoying. Figure things out on my own and stop asking stupid questions. And I tried. I became the island he wanted. In the process, I’ve relapsed in my addiction recovery three times, needed to get on sleeping pills for extreme anxiety, and at some point, I was checking which psych hospitals take my insurance. You know what makes this funny? I work in mental health.

I’m slightly better now. I’m in mostly regular therapy. It helps that my spouse and I are moving to a better place and my commutes are getting shorter. But I’m also angry. Furious. I don’t expect my boss to actually stop the hazing. He can’t even get my co-workers to meet their deadlines for their work, much less stop a group effort to haze the new employee. But I can’t forgive him for blaming me for my own bullying. At some point, he was constantly tearing into me in front of the colleagues he knew I already was isolated from for anything and everything he could think of. I can’t help but wonder if he gets some kind of thrill on being one of the crew (ironically, the more he tore into me, the more the rest of the team softened on me. I guess they felt bad for me. Not enough to actually help me. Enough that they don’t actively sneer when I walk into the room).

Now? I’m cut off from my one support line. I’m truly an island. And that’s also somehow my fault. My boss told me this employee complained about being too overwhelmed (he was too overwhelmed with work as a whole. My boss made it seem like he was too overwhelmed with me, specifically).

I’m constantly overwhelmed with pure rage. Rage that I let it get this far. Rage that I actually let this man convince me to not document any of this. Rage that I believed in him at all. Rage that I survived hazing and all I got was trauma and a resurgence of my alcohol problem. Rage that we’re all 30+ years old and yet you’d think this was a high school. Rage that a licensed social worker thinks it’s funny that his subordinate is being hazed.

How do I make it through the next three months without punching this man in the face? I can’t forgive him. I will never forgive him,

This piece calls out one of the biggest double standards in modern capitalism: the way we obsess over regulating poor people while letting billionaires run wild. The same folks screaming about food stamp fraud have nothing to say when a mega-corp dodges billions in taxes or tanks the economy with zero consequences. It’s a brutal takedown of the “free market” myth, showing how it only applies when it benefits the powerful.

The article especially goes in on Elon Musk, who’s somehow seen as a rogue genius even though he’s propped up by billions in government money. It breaks down how billionaires manipulate markets, dodge accountability, and rewrite rules for themselves, then get worshipped like saints for it. It doesn’t just roast individuals. It exposes the whole system for what it is: a rigged game that rewards the already-powerful and punishes everyone else for trying to survive.

Why it fits the antiwork sub? Because it dismantles the lie we’ve all been sold — that hard work equals success. It shows that the ladder isn’t just hard to climb. It’s missing rungs, tilted, and chained to the top 1%. And it doesn’t just critique, it offers something better: a vision of shared responsibility, meaningful work, and a life that isn’t consumed by hustle or worship of wealth.

If you’re tired of being gaslit by a broken system that rewards failure at the top and punishes effort at the bottom, this one hits home.

Preface: I am pretty much exclusively talking about corporate jobs. I understand that retail or "blue-collar" jobs are completely different. Though there are things to address in those fields.

How in the world have people lied to themselves and to others that their jobs aren't complete wastes of time?

For a little background; I have been working two full time jobs for almost a year now (felt underpaid even after being told I was one of the top employees at a company). I am losing my mind because I can easily get by on ~10 hours of work at each when I'm actually trying 💀
At one job I work on a product that is used daily by tens of millions of Americans. At the other job I just maintain an internal tool.

I know productivity soared late last century, so WHY DO WE ALL STILL HAVE TO WORK? More realistically, WHY DOES NOBODY ADMIT THAT THEIR JOB IS PRETTY MUCH A COMPLETE JOKE AND THEY PRETEND TO BE BUSY FOR 60%+ OF THEIR TIME?
Can we admit that we don't need to be working the majority of our waking time and still achieve quite a lot of things? For fucks sake I don't think anything will ever change unless enough people admit to themselves that "hey, my work doesn't really matter that much" or "most of my time isn't actually productive."

How could some of our parents work meaningless jobs and never consider how they're wasting their life and how they're not changing the world at all so their kids will have to do the exact same thing?

I'm fed up. I would love to hear anyone else's thoughts on this because it feels like everyone else is living in a different reality than me.

Thanks for listening to my rant. I hope you all have a good day.

I’m in a hospital ensuring tests are run properly. Each test error costs $10,000. Before my position came up the error rate was almost 50% now it’s less then 1% Got news last week my position is being cut. Ironically last month I got a breakdown of my job over the last year, and how I’m saving the company $10,000’s of thousands a day…Not bad for someone working for $21.50 an hour one of the lowest paid positions in the company. They told me “because of financial issues we no longer can keep the job open.” Then told the staff “because this position is such a success we are reallocating our resources” Then went ahead and offered me a different position with overnight job and cut hours. Not the job nor the hours I agreed to when I started working. I cannot take it do to personal issues. And now because “they have a position for me” I am considered as a resignation instead of a layoff and will not receive unemployment benefits.

I started a new job position in the billing/payroll department where I work, and honestly it’s been absolute hell. The person who trained me was leaving, so she didn’t care enough to show me how to properly do things. So I’ve basically been figuring things out on my own. On top of that, I’m training a new hire, who’s awesome and has been super understanding about the whole situation. My manager has also been out for 3 weeks, so I’ve been dealing with owner who can admit that he doesn’t have any idea what he’s doing and gets upset when I don’t either.

There are a LOT of moving parts to this job. I need access to a ton of different files and spreadsheets, but when I ask the owner about it he says he’ll get to it and never does. Then he gets upset with me and is confused as to why I don’t have access. The thing is, I literally had NO IDEA I needed access to these things because no one showed me! Now that I understand most of the processes, I’m seeing mistakes that the previous person made and have brought them up to the owner. I outlined the problem, how I’m fixing it, and where I’m at in the process. Despite that, he has tried to place blame on me for not noticing this issue that started TWO MONTHS before I even stepped into the role.

I’m honestly exhausted, I’ve been trying to hard to do well in this position and all I’m getting is negativity back. I wasn’t trained properly and it honestly feels like I was sabotaged (this person didn’t like me very much). My manager hasn’t been around to talk to about these things, which really is the main problem. She was supposed to help me learn the role and be a buffer between myself and the owner.

I’m not sure exactly what I should say to my manager when we finally get a chance to have a meeting. Her being out isn’t her fault, so I have no ill will there. I’m just super frustrated by the lack of support and clarity on how processes are supposed to work, but I do really like the job itself.

Tips on how to deal with an anal, stubborn manager who refuses to accept my help, always hovers over me, and doesn’t trust me? Upper management is gaslighting me into believing she can do no wrong, but they are sorely mistaken.

I know how to work the new computers in the kitchen (I work at WingStop), but that overly-controlling woman runs the kitchen like her own little kingdom, and sees any attempt on my part to help as an intrusion, worrying I might “mess something up”. Well, if I’m not allowed to use the new computers, then why was I required to show up and train on them a few days ago? She’s being absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know to express myself without getting in trouble.