r/antiwork is about much more than telling your boss “Take this job and shove it.”
“Unfortunately, it’s happening too much,” said Doreen Ford, the main moderator of the subreddit, who said she was forced to restrict resignation texts to Sundays so they don’t crowd out everything else. “I mean, antiwork isn’t just telling your boss to go fuck off.”Ford has been running r/antiwork for seven years after starting it with a friend who later dropped out.
Of course, there’s also the vicarious thrill of seeing people sticking it to The Man in whatever way possible, likeby someone describing how they automated a data entry job and collected pay checks for five years without lifting a finger. There is no way to verify how many of the stories are true, but their veracity is less important than the catharsis they offer. All victories, big and small, are celebrated equally on the subreddit.Whether the sub’s popularity signifies a long-term shift in U.
Even if the favorable economic conditions giving people the ability to turn down crappy jobs swing back in the other direction, the shift in attitudes could last longer. Devon Price, a social psychologist and author ofHe says the obsession with work and productivity in the U.S. goes back to the Puritans and that over the centuries, it’s helped to justify colonialism, slavery, and the gutting of social supports for vulnerable populations.
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