#antijobs

[nando161mando]

[thessalian]

Thess vs Why We Fight

Another one from the bowels of Reddit, mostly because it's interesting.

There's a subreddit - r/antijob - that I follow mostly to keep track of real people's experiences in the workplace other than my own. And there was a post where the question was asked, "Why do you do more than the bare minimum?" That was the title, anyway. While the question was genuine, it was also at least half a lead-in to "If you're not stealing time back from the company that abuses you for too little pay, you're doing it wrong".

Thing is ... I had an answer. And that answer is: "I do it for the patients".

Yes, I complain a lot about how much I'm being taken advantage of by my colleagues. How management is allowing and in fact encouraging me to torture myself by taking on overtime that Occupational Health has told me I should not be doing. But the thing is ... I could technically just ... not do it. I could say, "Fuck it; you're on your own". And I probably would, except for the fucking patients.

See, I type histology reports for a living. And while some of those are absolutely routine, bog-standard stuff that shouldn't be an issue ... a lot of them aren't. They don't take out your tonsils or appendix or gallbladder unless there's something wrong. They certainly don't take off your breasts or cut out your kidneys or segments of your fucking intestines unless there's something wrong. They don't stick needles in you to take pieces of your liver or your prostate or your lungs or that weird lump on your breast, or cut off bits of skin because that mole just doesn't look right ... unless there's something potentially wrong. Nine times out of ten, they're looking for cancer.

Now, I know a lot about cancer. I've worked a few oncology departments in my time. And the main thing I know is that you have to catch it early. The sooner you catch it, the sooner it can be treated, and the sooner it's treated, the better the odds that you'll get full remission. More to the point, if you delay any of that, it might spread to another part of the body and then the odds of the patient's survival just drop into the sub-basement. The first step to catching it? Getting histology results to the right people. And even though I only do the macroscopic reports and not the microscopic ones that let you know whether a thing's malignant or not, they can't authorise a report without that information on the damn form. So, in my own small way, I am helping to save lives. That is why I do what I do. That's why I couldn't really hack anything that wasn't directly medical. Arranging the diary of the head of the Royal College of General Practitioners or handling submissions to a medical journal? Eh, I could do it, but it wasn't satisfying. I want to be helping. I want my job to mean something. And mine does.

So I answered the Reddit post with that very fact. And I got, "Well, it wouldn't be your fault if things got delayed; it'd be the boss' fault for not hiring more staff". And thankfully someone else got in before me with the reply of, "Yeah, and Thess is going to feel so much better about a patient potentially dying, potentially painfully, just because it's not technically their fault, even though they could have done something? Have some fucking empathy!" From what I can tell, half the people who read that remark of mine think I'm a hero, and the other half think I'm a doormat. I dunno; maybe both, maybe neither. I just know that reports need doing ASAP because sometimes, even a few days makes a difference.

I don't think my colleagues understand that. I don't think my colleagues let themselves understand that. They just look at it as, "They dictate, I type". I never forget that the tissue those doctors were cutting up and poking at while dictating this stuff was fairly recently attached to and/or inside of a human being, and the fact that they're getting bits cut off or out means, as I said above, that there is something potentially wrong. Best case scenario? Everything's fine, and the patient gets relief from the stress of potentially being sick a little sooner. Worst case scenario? There is a problem and the report gets to the right people quicker, and the patient stands a better chance of surviving it. Either way, it's important. What we do is important.

So I guess it's not even just work ethic, although that's a good-sized part of it. Most of all, it's making a difference, in a small way that might become something huge. And that's why I work three hours of overtime when we're this swamped.

...I just hate that my empathy and general humanity is being taken advantage of by lazy bints who only see it as "it's just a job; do the bare minimum".

[black-mosquito]

Antijob ist die Plattform auf der sich auch aktuell noch Arbeiter*innen in Russland austauschen und organisieren können.

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[thefree-online]

This happened in Russia: workers’ occupation of Vyborg’s pulp and paper mill

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[theyayadiamond]

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[thesunshinereporter]

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[yr-bed]

Crap jobs remain a cornerstone of our working lives (there's a whole book about it), and I'm under no illusions as to it having been better "back in the day," but the atomised nature of employment today — between market-lead shifts towards zero hour contracts and casual workers having zero rights, as well as the pandemic-necessitated shift to working from home — means the collective bargaining of previous generations is much more difficult to put into action. So I'm always interested to hear about alternative ways of resisting shitty work practices, such as the legends in this Novara Media article who've come up with all sorts of workarounds in their WFH set ups. This anonymous software developer is especially inspiring:

"Since working from home, I’ve basically been able to get my job done in half the time I would in the office. Being a programmer, I’ve figured out ways to automate the most annoying parts of my work. I’ve written a set of mouse and keyboard commands to fill out my timesheets, fill up my calendar with ‘private meetings’, and send out emails. Automated mouse movements also keep my Microsoft Teams status green, making it look like I’m hard at work. This is all against the rules, but it saves me hours. Right now, I’m taking Fridays off entirely."

This is obviously not quite the same as organised walkouts over poor pay or loss of pensions, but it's an effective form of resistance against a) jobs where attendance and looking busy appears to be the main thing, and b) work in general. Feeling a sense of resistance to work is, I think, entirely natural. For all the talk of a Protestant work ethic being inherit in humans, performing labour of which you are not a beneficiary in order to afford the rudiments of a comfortable existence is, and I hope this isn't a mad idea, a load of bollocks and totally unnatural. In How To Do Nothing, a book I won't stop wanging on about and I'm sorry for that, Jenny Odell writes about this "Bartleby The Scrivener"-inspired approach to striking. Not so much a justifiably-aggressive collective action, but an organised-or-otherwise shrug of "I would prefer not to." I was reminded of the concept when reading the article "Tired of Running in Place, Young Chinese ‘Lie Down'":

"The new lifestyle buzzword, tang ping [lie down], stems from a now-deleted post on forum site Tieba. Unlike similar, previous terms to have had their time in the spotlight in recent years, tang ping is an action rather than a feeling — resolving to just scrape by, exerting the bare minimum effort at an unfulfilling job, as opposed to the futility of raging against the capitalist machine.

"The author of the Tieba post described how he had been unemployed for the past two years yet did not see this as problematic. Instead of accepting and pursuing society’s ideas of success, he decided to just lie down.

“'Since there has never been an ideological trend exalting human subjectivity in our land, I shall create one for myself: Lying down is my wise movement. Only by lying down can humans become the measure of all things,' the user wrote in his lying-down manifesto."

The article goes on to explicate a fairly defeatist element to tang ping, perhaps understandably, but I don't think the acceptance of your material conditions and rejection of the standard way of improving them is necessarily throwing in the towel. It also certainly isn't the same as the rejection of society and replacing it instead with days dedicated to "lift[ing] weights and be[ing] self-sufficient through crypto," Hussein Kesvani's apt summation of nihilistic self-improvement bros. Quite the opposite: it chimes with something Guy Debord painted onto the walls of a Parisian street in 1953, and which I had on a poster in my room for a bit (because ofc I did): Never Work! Debord wrote, in response to a postcard reproducing his graffiti, disagreeing with its framing:

"Monsieur Buffier’s title, in fact, is 'Superfluous advice.' Given that it is well know that the great majority of people work, and that said work is, despite the strongest repulsion, imposed on the near totality of workers by a crushing constraint, the slogan NEVER WORK can in no way be considered 'superfluous advice.' This term of Monsieur Buffier’s implies that such a position is already unquestioningly followed by all, and thus casts the most ironic discredit on my inscription, and consequently my ideas and those of the Situationist movement."

Karen Elliot wrote more broadly, more recently, on the rejection of work, "which locates the wage-labour relation as the central pillar of capitalist relations and therefore the prime locus of attack." Her piece takes on the then-emergent trends of precarious work and the propaganda of productivity, which are now in full bloom, and places the struggle for an exit from this shitty situation within the history of Marxist thought:

"[Eduard] Bernstein, Engel’s literary executor and one of the most influential figures within reformist Marxism, argued in a series of articles under the title The Problems of Socialism (1897–98) that the ‘final goal’ of socialism would be achieved through capitalism, not through capitalism’s destruction. As rights were gradually won by workers, he argued, their cause for grievance would be diminished and consequently so would the foundation and necessity of revolution."

Which, well, see how that turned out. Not only have worker's rights been further eroded by the strategic destruction of labour unions, passing of laws which allow for predatory hiring and labour practises, but we're also at a point now where the opportunity to address "grievances" has been more-or-less removed by the business models of Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon, et al. But we also don't seem to be particularly close to a glorious fully automated luxury socialist revolution. So given all of that, why not just do the bare minimum and have a lie down?

[crimethinc]

The Russian Anarchist Labor Site that Terrifies the Bosses

https://crimethinc.com/AntiJob

Antijob hosts a “blacklist of employers,” offering a venue for workers in Russia to report on their workplace conditions and strike back at their bosses. We interviewed them about labor resistance in Russia, organizing under repressive conditions, and the invasion of Ukraine.

[laikainfo]

МАЛЫШЕВУ ОБВИНИЛИ В ПРИВЕРЖЕННОСТИ К ФАШИЗМУ И ИЗДЕВАТЕЛЬСТВАХ НАД СОТРУДНИКАМИ / MALYSHEVA WAS ACCUSED OF ADHERENCE TO FASCISM AND BULLYING EMPLOYEES Журналист Рустам Юлбарисов https://www.facebook.com/100009392317622 опубликовал в Facebook пост под заголовком «Как я работал у Елены Малышевой», в котором подробно описал историю своих непростых трудовых отношений с популярной телеведущей. По словам Рустама, с ЕВМ (видимо аббревиатура из начальных букв ФИО ведущей), он начал работать с 2011 года и практически сразу попал в атмосферу страха, унижений, а иногда и рукоприкладства, усугубленных бестолковой организацией труда. «Однажды Малышева подняла всех сотрудниц и заставила по очереди рассказать о состоянии репродуктивных органов», - описывает Рустам случай на одной из планерок с подчиненными. Впрочем, журналист утверждает, что иногда разборки с подчиненными принимали куда более серьезный оборот. В качестве примера он приводит случай нападения работающего в штате родственника телеведущей на одного из программистов по имени Дима, после чего «Василий Петрович собрал всех сотрудников в офисе и заставил подписать бумаги, в которых утверждалось, будто Дима напал первым». «Малышева как-то сказала, что «Муссолини – великий человек». Я очень хорошо это запомнил, потому что был антифашистом. Тема фашизма потом ещё не раз всплывала», - рассказывает журналист о бывшей руководительнице, которая по его словам так же обожает американский стиль управления и Америку, в которой постоянно проживает, прилетая в Россию только на съемки. Journalist Rustam Yulbarisov published a post on his Facebook page under the title "How I worked for Elena Malysheva", in which he spoke about the atmosphere of fear at his former job and Malysheva's love for the United States. _________ #малышева #недвижимость #сша #америка #юлбарисов #муссолини #дмитрийрадченко #журналист #сотрудник #житьздорово #теледоктор #врач #трудовоеправо #законодательство #нарушения #издевательства #фашизм #первыйканал #останкино #antijob #травлей #malysheva #realestate #usa #mussolini #employee #teledoctor #violations #bullying #fascism (at Moscow, Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xkAeagq9Z/?igshid=aib1kpvozvol

[black-mosquito]

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[thefree-online]

AntiJob: The Russian Anarchist Labor Site that Terrifies the Bosses from.. Crimethinc

AntiJob: The Russian Anarchist Labor Site that Terrifies the Bosses from.. Crimethinc

from Crimethinc // interview Support Us Current Events Languages An Interview Since 2001, the collectively-run website Antijob.net has provided a “blacklist of employers,” offering a space for laborers in Russia to report on their negative experiences at work. As Russian media and labor organizing have come under increasing pressure, Antijob continues to provide a crucial resource for ordinary…

[pravosydiekrd]

НЕДОБРОСОВЕСТНЫЙ РАБОТОДАТЕЛЬ: КАК ЗАЩИТИТЬ СЕБЯ? Недобросовестность некоторых #работодателей может "спать" довольно #долго. И даже официальный договор этому не помеха. Обещания и обязательства #становятся пылью, а время уже было потрачено на выполнение рабочих обязанностей. Как часто Вы сталкивались с ситуациями, когда работодатель нарушает изначальные #договоренности? КУДА ОБРАТИТЬСЯ? Первым шагом может стать написание #жалобы на имя руководителя организации. Это #имеет смысл в случае нарушения прав со стороны подведомственных #руководителей. Об их деятельности вышестоящее лицо может просто не узнать. Но данный способ теряет силу, если #руководитель организации сам является нарушителем. О #правилах составления жалобы можно узнать здесь. О серьезных нарушениях можно сообщить в государственную #инспекцию труда (ГИТ). ГИТ в свою очередь изучает вопрос и проводит внеплановую проверку. Оставить свое обращение можно на #официальном сайте. Но стоит иметь в виду, что инспекция может только признать #нарушение и потребовать устранения. Если #стороны не достигают взаимопонимания, следующим #этапом становится суд. Помимо этого, жалобы принимают и другие инстанции - #Роспотребнадзор, прокуратура, полиция, санэпидстанции, #профсоюзы и т.д. Существует множество ресурсов, принимающих отзывы о нарушениях, которые содержат "Черные #списки работодателей". Чтобы внести свою лепту в общее дело, достаточно заполнить форму под неким именем (не обязательно Вашим). #ПОПУЛЯРНЫЕ РЕСУРСЫ: 1. Antijob https://antijob.net/write 2. Правда сотрудников https://pravda-sotrudnikov.ru/ 3. О труде https://otrude.net/ Возможно, со временем недобросовестные работодатели поймут, насколько важно проявлять уважение к сотрудникам и соискателям. (at Первомайский районный суд Краснодара) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLB0mj7lEg6/?igshid=1ist8hzdcf5v5

[black-mosquito]

»Seit 2001 bietet die kollektiv betriebene Website Antijob.net eine “‘Schwarze’ Liste der Bosse”, auf der Arbeiter*innen in Russland über ihre negativen Erfahrungen am Arbeitsplatz berichten können. Da die russischen Medien und die gewerkschaftliche Organisierung zunehmend unter Druck geraten sind, stellt Antijob auch in einem extrem repressiven Umfeld weiterhin eine wichtige Ressource für normale Arbeiter*innen dar. Russische Unternehmen und Regierungsbehörden haben wiederholt versucht, die Herausgeber*innen zu bestechen oder die Website zu unterbinden – ohne Erfolg.«

Weiterlesen: cwc.im/AntijobDeutsch

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