Author: Olivia

Last summer I accepted a promising job offer that turned out to be a nightmare. The workplace was a 15 mile highway drive from my home which seemed very close. But my interviews weren't during rush hour, and on my first day of work I realized how terrible the highway situation in the mornings was: Traffic was so bad, I drove most of my commute at like 10mph. And to make matters worse, the office was in the city center and didnt have it's own parking spaces, so I'd have to circle around the streets every day until I found one that was free of charge. My commute turned out to be 1-1,5 hours ONE WAY, so 2-3 hours in total, on most days. And as if that wasn't enough, the office was ruled by a gang of bitter boomer ladies that would throw a huge fit when us younger…

Every time someone talks about work culture I just hear Work Cult…🤷‍️

Just spoke with a union rep about a short term gig in live entertainment. After discussing the rates and the nature of the work, I inquired about any lodging or per diem because I'm going to be driving 16 hours one way to “make the magic happen”. I straight up told that lodging and per diem were not included and that many people who travel from town often sleep in their cars at the closest rest stop. Welcome to the exploitation of live events workers! Enjoy your expensive concert tickets, music festivals, sporting events, WWE.

If you were born in the 40-50s in North America the success story was graduating grade 9 and working a basic blue collar job. House, car, retirement no problem. 60-70s the success story was having bought a house, saving up basically nothing, then selling your shitbox house for a cool couple mil and retiring. 80-90 the success story is having not killed yourself yet and become educated enough you can work from your shit apartment. 00-today success story is having one of the previous sucess babies as your parents.

I would be interested in the amount of paid vacation and paid sick days u get. I start. Austrian here: 25 vacation 13 national Holidays. Sick days unlimited. After 8 weeks my employer gets oaud back by the health service.