Quit my horrible job and posted a Glass Door review a month ago. Received a cease and desist letter for defamation. Edited and re-posted an even more scathing but legally passable version. Fuck our capitalist overlords and their intimidation strategies.

Woowwww. I too worked a job that was the work of five people, literally. They had a whole bunch of people leave the company all at once, and suddenly they were down an admin, a social media specialist, an exec assistant, a marketing coordinator, and a donation manager. So the problem was "solved" by putting all of those duties into one job listing and hiring me, aka someone who did have the skills to do any of those jobs but was desperate enough to accept their shitty wage offering to do all of them. And damnit, I did it, despite the low pay, and despite the fact that they didn't even have passwords for half the accounts they needed, and didn't know the processes/procedures for any of the work. A lot of times they'd tell me to do something and I'd say, "Sure! But I've looked into it and can't figure out how xyz is done. How do I do that thing?" "Well, when Kelly was here, she knew how to do it!" "Did Kelly leave documentation?" "No, she quit without leaving any documentation, but we know it can be done because she did it, so just figure it out!" I kept pulling miracles out of my ass for them and in the end they still laid me off because they wanted someone to "hit the ground running" and I was too "deliberate" for them. Let's be honest, they wanted someone "hungry", or "ambitious," aka desperately driven by honied lies that one day my hard work would all be rewarded and I'd be given any role I wanted once we all "grew the company together". It wasn't enough that I did everything asked of me and then some, they wanted more.

Never been happier to be laid off.

I see now it was a legal protection that they put all those duties in one job description, so they'd be able to do exactly what your former employer did to you if I tried to call them out on GlassDoor. I never did, of course, because the only collar they needed to keep me in line is that I've previously burned a bad bridge with an abusive employer and therefore have a limited supply of people to ask for referrals. I recently left another job (this time on my own volition) so I'm back on the grind, but something has shifted in my head - I don't want to put up with abuse and exploitation anymore, and I'll keep changing jobs to avoid it.

Being anti-work doesn't mean I am unwilling to work hard, do labor, do long hours, come in on a weekend, etc. It means that if I do that stuff, I want to feel like I'm still treated like a human being, with compassion, by the people asking me to do it, and that they're willing to work hard too so we can accomplish our shared goals together. And ideally, anti-work means that work is not slavery or servitude required for basic survival, but something I do to support my whole community, that in turn supports me back.

Anyway, solidarity, fam! They can knock us down but we won't let them knock us out.

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