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horror stories that make you want to quit your own job are common on the r/antiwork.
One post from earlier this month says that his boss told him to not be a cartoon villain and hung up on him. The post concludes that it is permission to take the whole afternoon off.
The ethos of r/antiwork is to push back on the idea of work as we know it. On Thursday, a thread blew up that urged members to apply for jobs.
There are permanent positions at the cereals plants in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and Tennessee. The goal was to make it difficult for recruiters to sort through fake applications.
It is easy to sympathize with the workers of the company.
The members of r/antiwork were in agreement with the 1,400 workers at the company who went on strike. After the strike vote, the company decided to hire permanent replacement workers.
Kevin says that it is easy to sympathize with the workers. He says that hearing the workers talk about being paid low wages and having a poor work-life balance is similar to what other people are saying. It lights a fire in the community, and you get ideas like this that get supported.
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There are links to the jobs that would replace striking workers on the timelines of the Threads on r/antiwork. At the time of writing, the main thread had more than 62,000 upvotes and thousands of comments. Members share tips on how to use features like autofill to submit applications faster.
Between 2020 and 2021, r/antiwork has grown by 279%.
The striking workers are aware of the efforts, according to Corrina Christensen, director of communications for the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
She says it is phenomenal.
r/antiwork was highlighted as the poster child for the great resignation. The company says that the subreddit has grown by almost 300 percent in membership between 2020 and 2021. A thread about someone quitting their job was the fourth most upvoted post of the year.
The organizing around the strike is driven by members. The philosophy of antiwork meshes with the graduate social work student in South Carolina who holds down multiple jobs and internships while in school, and at times, work has taken over his life.
This kind of action is popular because of that. Everyone feels the struggle and the pain that these workers are going through.
Members have been allowed to take the lead in support of the strike, despite the fact that the post with suggestions on how to support the strike was pinned by the Moderators. The initiative has spread to social media, introducing new people to the r/ antiwork community, after some members reported the job site crashing.
It is not the first time that antiwork messages have broken out in digital spaces. A number of posts on social media suggested receipt printers were being hacked to spit out pro-worker manifestos, encouraging people to discuss wages with co-workers and form unions, eventually directing people to visit r/ antiwork. The moderation team thought the stunt was fake, but they don't know who is responsible for the hacked printers.
The antiwork community sees organizing around the strike as an important way to turn their beliefs into actions.
One post says it is time for r/ antiwork to make the news as a formidable fighter for the average worker. I submitted four applications. How many did you submit?
