This is some serious crap!   
 
I've been playing for an hour and didn't even notice the time go by, and I've been clicking on workers everyturn like an idiot and got placed into a stupid island in my first game. 
 
I SPENT A FRICKIN HOUR GETTING TO ANOTHER LAND, I had a god damn 9x9ish grid that barely got me crap. 
 
On topic, how do I auto-work workers?!  I'm tired of clicking on them, and can't find the option anywhere!

It's in the little triple-chevron pointing right in the unit menu (bottom-left).  It brings up a collapsible menu that has the automation and delete options.

short cut is: A

Thank you...gah, I gotta control myself. 
 
I can't believe I played that long without noticing.  x.x 

If youre tired after an hour, you wont finish it

I played a game with TheMustacheHero yesterday that lasted 2 hours, and we didn't even finish.

As good as automated workers seem, they don't take into consideration anything you need. Like you might have a city that demands gold (and you have a gold in your base, but for some reason its not on the workers priority to build a road and mine at the gold site until a million things later. I usually automate them if I have them en masse so its like sending zerglings to a base.

Always read the manual before getting into a rage on internet forums, kids.

BTW, based on my game last night, workers are kinda dumb in times of war and when set  on automate just loves to work on cities I just captured, but its still a battlefield so enemy units just come in and rape them. Its not so bad if I have an army big enough to protect them, but just something i noticed.  "

" Always read the manual before getting into a rage on internet forums, kids. "

why read the manual?  look at the buttons and go oh no automate, wonder what the arrow button does.  OH MORE BUTTONS.  there's automate!