Author: Olivia

Remote work is less costly for workers. Remote work is better for the environment. Remote makes work possible for more people. Remote work eliminates urban sprawl. Remote work reinvigorates the communities we live in. Remote work lowers cost of living. Remote work is work-life balance in action. Remote work invests in communication infrastructure. Remote work is here to stay. I will leave any job that tries to force me back. If your job can be effectively performed from wherever you are, I hope you'll hold this line with me. #NoGoingBack

With the current news cycle stuck on stopping WFH and prominent politicians like Biden and NYC Mayor pushing for people to return to the office we need our own narrative. Right now the jest of theirs is based on the economy of Urban Centers. Urban centers have been hurt by the mass exodus and need people to return to help stimulate that economy. Our(ProWFH) narrative needs to be about how what they are proposing will hurt small town America, small business and so on. What they are pushing towards is essentially a redistribution of wealth and spending. Transitioning spending from local city centers to major urban areas. They're focused on jobs and revenue in urban centers but what about the jobs and revenue in surrounding towns. If money is being spent in place A then it isn't being spent in place B. The money is going to be spent. Just…

I went to a very famous art school in the US. Each class had a 4 absence policy – once you had a 5th absence, you either had to drop the class, or automatically failed. There were NO excused absences. I know of people who got hit by a bus on the way to class and still crawled their way there – a friend of mine had to miss her mom's funeral because she couldn't afford to stay in school another quarter. I was hospitalized and missed a few classes, and had to retake an entire quarter. This was to “prepare us for the working world”. What sucks is that we all thought this was totally normal for the longest time!! When I was an RA at the school (I quit after a few months), I remember telling my residents that this was a GOOD thing because it prepared us…

I was listening to a morning radio show and one of their games was the people on the radio show had to guess what the person who called in did for a living by asking a few questions… like do you work in an office? With children? And my first thought was what would my answer be to these questions? And then my second thought was for which job???And then I realized that the people they were asking only had to work one job that lasted about 40hrs a week give it take. What a life. To not have to bounce from part-time job to part-time job to part-time job. Doubles, triples, no time to yourself. All so you can break even. Will I ever get to have just one job?? How I yearn to be a SAHM with no children.

Little encapsulation of the late millennial/early gen z life timeline ​ 5 years old: Witness thousands of Americans die live on TV 12 years old: Once in a lifetime financial housing crisis 15 years old: The war we once thought was justified is exposed as more power hungry tactics for those in charge 18-21 years old: Educated on real world corruption and problems 23 years old: Once in a lifetime global pandemic. Company tries to improve morale with pizza parties… During a pandemic, where you are not supposed to be near each other…. A pizza party. Just let that sink in. 24 years old: Second once in a lifetime financial crisis 25 years old: Exponential rise in cost of living and goods/services with no compensation change ​ I've worked in office for an entire two years, being promised that I am essential and important, but in the end of the…

It sounds GREAT! But every place I have worked that offered this always recommended that you be available at least a few hours while being away more than a week. At my last job you had to give at least 4 weeks' notice if you needed off. It was a Monday and on that Tuesday I was going to put in for 10 days PTO (5 weeks notice). On Monday the VP sent out an email that we were going to have a mandatory on-site meeting the week I was going away. As soon as I got that email, I emailed my boss and told her that I booked a trip already and wouldn't be there for the mandatory meeting then I quickly put my request in for my vacation. She slacked me back saying that I couldn't take off since there is a mandatory meeting and I should've put…

how fucking entitled do you have to be to expect me to sit around for another 15 minutes after the end of an 8 and half hour working day? He gave me some bullshit about seeing someone leave and assuming they stopped working 10 minutes before that. Like fuck will i hang around and take part in your presenteeism bullshit. This is a new job, but i'm already about to put my notice in.