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Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by likpok »

pydry wrote: post #4
phoronixrly wrote: post #2

I've come accross many posts from this subreddit that hit the front page. Let's just say I hope reddit is keeping an eye on foreign and domestic troll farms as many of the most popular posts seem suspiciously like fiction to me...

Most of the more "out there" posts line up with /r/legaladvice, which is my bellwether for the kind of shit that goes down in the low-end American workplace (spoiler : goddamn awful,).

Legaladvice is also a place people love to put creative writing, so I’m not sure how much you can take from that.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by acheron »

likpok wrote: post #11
pydry wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the more "out there" posts line up with /r/legaladvice, which is my bellwether for the kind of shit that goes down in the low-end American workplace (spoiler : goddamn awful,).

Legaladvice is also a place people love to put creative writing, so I’m not sure how much you can take from that.

All personal stories on Reddit should be assumed to be lies. I can’t believe there are people out there taking anything on it seriously.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by diob »

tjs8rj wrote: post #6

That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…

I can't really blame them, I think after a while folks realized they all had the same experiences. Long hours, promised promotions, and eventually they have all cracked a bit.

The generation after millenials has seen how the millenial hard work essentially ruined their health (some of us got out lucky, like myself), with 0 reward besides deference to some boomers. So I think we're going to see quite a revolution in our lifetime, the new generation doesn't feel like fealty and recognizes that capitalism is really just crony capitalism. The explosion of information on the internet makes it easy to see how corruption and nepotism is 90% of everything, with 10% getting lucky + hardworking.

Who knows what will happen, I just hope we end up with healthier lives for all.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by koheripbal »

BoboDupla wrote: post #3

Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an edgy teen's communist era playground. One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.

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Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by _8j50 »

phoronixrly wrote: post #2

I've come accross many posts from this subreddit that hit the front page. Let's just say I hope reddit is keeping an eye on foreign and domestic troll farms as many of the most popular posts seem suspiciously like fiction to me...

You are not exactly the first person to say this on this thread. How do I know you yourself are not part of a discredition campaign? Can you substantiate your speculation by pointing out inauthentic popular posts or accounts at least?

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by scotty79 »

acheron wrote: post #12
likpok wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legaladvice is also a place people love to put creative writing, so I’m not sure how much you can take from that.

All personal stories on Reddit should be assumed to be lies. I can’t believe there are people out there taking anything on it seriously.

Wow, so many literary creative individuals doing unpaid work for fun is way more plausible explanation than random people being just fed up with their lives and wanting to vent.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by scotty79 »

version_five wrote: post #7

It shouldn't be completely dismissed, but I think the forum is more about how an unhappy (or angry) minority have found each other, and the people that like to read their stories. I don't think that r/antiwork should be taken as representative of anything, including a broader movement. It's the same with twitter, there is a committed vocal and angry group, but it's not real life

What about this https://hbr.org/2021/09/who-is-driving-the-great-resignation ?

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by 1shooner »

diob wrote: post #13
tjs8rj wrote: post #6

That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…

I can't really blame them, I think after a while folks realized they all had the same experiences. Long hours, promised promotions, and eventually they have all cracked a bit. The generation after millenials has seen how the millenial hard work essentially ruined their health (some of us got out lucky, like myself), with 0 reward besides deference to some boomers. So I think we're going to see quite a revolution in o…

> the millenial hard work essentially ruined their health

Is this referring to a specific trend or statistic?

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