Author: Olivia

If a company has a machine, it is operated at 70% of its max capacity. We do not require machines to work hard. In addition, they are periodically lubricated and receive maintenance, new parts so and so. The work hard culture is a sacrifice of those who are expandable: humans. Down with this culture, and let's get paid in full for 70% of our maximum capacity.

For as long as I’ve had a job, I’ve always had two sides to me: my normal personal self and the customer service/office self. I always dread having to go into work and I think my body does too. I am a full time student and I work twice a week. I formally worked three times a week primarily Friday-Sunday and I saw myself getting burned out before my shift on Saturdays so I cut it down to Friday and Sunday. The only downside now is that I STILL dread going into work. Remote work is something I’m looking into but I just want to make money without having to put up a dumb front. P.S. I work at the front desk of a hotel

As we return to “normal” and people start returning to the office, people at my job have been told that they have to start dressing more “professionally.” We have an agency-wide dress code, the typical business casual thing every office has. However, due to the pandemic literally everyone ignores it. No one comes in looking like they climbed out of a dumpster, but sneakers and jeans are normal. Now, folks have been told they can no longer wear jeans and sneakers in the office. Mind you, there are still no clients in the office, we're not at full capacity, and the relaxed standards caused NO loss of productivity. This is 100% a control thing. None of our clients will be leaving because someone's wearing tennis shoes instead of pumps. Many of us work in the field, driving for long hours. There is nothing unprofessional about a pair of jeans, it's…

Ok so basically I got a job and went into the place yesterday at 10a.m for what I was told would be an hour or two of training videos. Since I was in a rush I only had cereal for breakfast and then went in. Once I finished the videos at 12:45 I was told that I would need to stay for a little longer but that I could have a break. They gave me a 10 minute lunch break to go get food, when I didn’t bring any with me. I had to go to the closest McDonald’s and buy a quick sandwich to eat in like 5 minutes. When I get back to the place they tell me that I’d have to stay until 4:15. Without any training they just put me out on the floor to figure things out myself. By the time I was done the…

You know how there’s a running joke that servers spit in the food of rude customers? What do you think the equivalent of spitting in someone’s food is, at your current job?