Month: September 2022

For those of you unfamiliar with his work, David Graeber (1961-2020) was an anthropologist who wrote BS Jobs: A Theory in 2018. It provides some useful ideas and vernacular. He categorized BS employment as follows: flunkies goons duct tapers box tickers taskmasters I agree with 4 out of these 5. I've been all of them except for goons. I'm not convinced being a guard is an unnecessary or BS job. I can be, if you are guarding something that doesn't need protection, for example, a celebrity that has to have a body guard as part of the entourage. That's more a form of ornamental employment, hence the term funky or lackey is more appropriate. If the need for a job is based on a necessary evil, is it BS? No. In a world where conflict is often resolved through the courts, the halls of Congress or the battlefield, jobs like…

My work place has been recently pushing everyone back to work in the office and have been on everyone's ass about. Today i had somebody lecture me like a child just for coming into work 30 minutes late. It's not like I don't work at all in the morning. I actually work on my laptop for a bit in the morning before leaving office, the reason why I came a little bit late was to avoid unnecessary traffic. Leaving at 7 or 8 means that I will have a 2 hour commute whereif I just leave my house an hour later, I can shorten my travel by 1 hour. It's absurd that the company doesn't understand the employee's perspectives with how much time and gas they can save (especially in a time of exponentially rising gas prices). Funny I've been here for 4 years of my life and have gotten…

How do you guys feel about jobs that make you sign a arbitration agreement. Didn’t know this was a thing, got hired on to a well known car company today that made me sign one. Also made me sign a agreement to deduct money from my paychecks every week(around 10 dollars) to rent my uniform, I.d, and badge. Just curious how other people would feel about this. Seems a little off to me.

I am currently a student and have set clear scheduling hours with my boss and managers numerous times. I can only legally work a certain amount of hours a week (20 hours). I gave them a list of days and times that I can work (only morning shifts though because I have schooling in evenings and I would go days without sleeping if they tried to work me at nights on my off days). The times and hours I have them were perfect and ensured I got my hours and was able to support myself without and conflict of schedules. Their response? They cut me down to less than 10 hours a week and are trying to work myself back to back night shift/day shift and are giving my hours someone who keeps coming to work high/drunk and has to be sent home early. I confronted them about this and…

I hate my current Job. At my current place of employment I'm working nights which are 12 hour shifts. I have an interview that looks very hopeful next Monday. Should I wait until after? Or follow my heart and quit now?

She got here at 10:30, did 6 Tik Toks then left for an appointment…Glad I can't work from home after 2 successful years of productivity.