if you quit you're not even allowed to tell people you quit. it would be a crying shame if all their employees walked out…. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/29/nlrb-files-complaint-against-ridiculously-overbroad-non-compete-as-an-unfair-labor-practice/#comments
https://bigthink.com/business/case-against-hiring-ivy-league-schools/ While this argument sounds tantalizingly anti-elitist, it's actual message is that tired glorification of hustle culture and the heroic entrepreneur, here described as the “service-oriented” mindset that's “hungry” and “can't do enough” while putting in 100 hours a week. Ideally, someone who used to wait tables and is saddled with student loans (yeah, she says that). In other words, someone who's likely to be desperate, submissive, and disposable. If there's one thing that Ivies like Princeton and Yale instill in their students, is that they are not under any circumstances desperate, submissive, or disposable. So, of course she doesn't want to hire them. And one more thing, Liz Elting: saying “Pasadena” instead of “Pass” doesn't make you sound hip and youthful. Just the opposite.
This post is meant to be more of a fun observation than a super-serious critique of the interplay between media and society. I was born in the 80's and didn't enter the workforce until the early 00's. I watched some network sitcoms as a kid and a teen and a lot of the popular ones had the characters casually hanging out in their homes or coffee shops, like Friends, Frasier (he only worked at the radio station 3 hours a day), Seinfeld, these characters spent a lot of time in their apartments and at restaurants. Over the past decade and a half, a lot of sitcoms and comedy shows are now workplace-centric, the most obvious one just for the name alone, The Office. Then you have Parks & Rec, Superstore, Party Down, Animal Control, all the characters in these shows spend the majority of their time in their work setting,…
https://youtu.be/hvk_XylEmLo?si=2WDrTi_4HgQVcefe This is a video that needs to reach a much wider audience than Historia Civilis is able to accrue. Thus, I want to share the video in any way that I can, sharing it here being the first step. I encourage all of you who see this post and watch this video to share it in any way you can. This is likely the biggest issue that our society faces today, despite everything else that's been happening for the past few centuries politically and economically. Workers of the industrial era have been exploited for everything they're worth, and government-backed corporations continue to take from the working class as much as they can for their own capital gain. Share this video in the hopes that, somehow, something can be organized and acted upon. We can no longer trust those in power to act in good faith, and history has shown…
Been enjoying the past several months of freedom. Being able to sleep in, staying up late, having the energy to gym and cook for myself. The best part has been being able to spend quality time with my dog. We’ve bonded so much these past few months going hiking and on trips whenever we wanted. Now every time I apply and interview for work, I just get extremely sad and unmotivated to try my best. I just think about all the freedom I’m going to lose. I hate that I’m going to have to go back to a 8-5 schedule again (more if you include commute). I actually feel relieved when I don’t hear back after an interview. Not sure what to do.
I see a lot of discussions on how to reduce the disparity between politicians and the average citizens of their country. While I admit I haven't exactly taken the time to thoroughly research the most common solutions, on this subreddit I've mostly seen talk of age caps, term limits, no stocks, and ending lobbying. I have to wonder though, wouldn't the best way to ensure our countries leaders truly understand the plight of the working man, be to simply say if you have to much money you just can't lead a country? If your net worth is to high you can't be a member of Congress, and if your net worth gets to high in Congress you're replaced, some shit like that. I'm curious how controversial this idea will be, especially since in my experience with this subreddit there are 2 types of people. The extreme radicals, and those who…
…and mine wasn’t passing. I was wondering why I was getting almost zero responses after two months and over 50 jobs applied to. Now I get to start at square one and work retail for income until I find something more fulfilling. I’ve been feeling pretty down about work and this kinda didn’t help. Too bad my bf and I kinda need my income to live or I’d keep enjoying taking care of the apartment, cooking, beading, and playing games. RIP to enjoying life
I work at a pretty low traffic store, more than half the time there is no customers inside. Most of the time it’s one employee working at a time but sometimes there are overlapping shifts. Well I’m first shift today and when I got here in the morning, I noticed that our nice (and relatively new) swivel chair was gone. Huh, weird. I asked our janitor if he knew where it was. He said that big boss told him to get rid of it. That she doesn’t want a chair behind the counter anymore. He said he already “threw it away”(!?). Now mind you this chair we had was actually pretty nice and one of my coworkers bought it with his own money (we used to have a different chair but another one of our coworkers broke it). And it was just thrown in the garbage. Now we do have…