Author: Olivia

Hello everyone! I’ve been a part of this sub for about a month now and I’m learning more than I ever thought I’d need to know about my rights as a worker! I originally felt super weird about being here as I am active duty military and couldn’t really sympathize with the plight of the average civilian worker. I working towards release from the service and this sub is helping me realize that I have a worth both inside and outside the military. Believe it or not service members go through some similar shit just with more red tape and less escape/negotiation options. I describe it to my family as “take your orders and deal with them” no matter how unfair, unrealistic, or outright outrageous those orders are. I could tell stories all day about how messed up things are from this side of the fence. Thank you all for…

I posted earlier about my job at the greenhouse and my boss not understanding my mental health issues. I approached a different greenhouse for work experience and was just offered to come in for a interview for a job!!!! This one should be less customer service and more working with plants which should help my mental health a lot and won’t interfere with my own garden!!!

Currently I work in a neighborhood supermarket as a administrative assistant. However for some time now I started to replace another role in which the employee was fired, and things was going fine, but the but the owner of the place (an elderly man who clearly no longer understands his own business) started pushing me to work that is not my job, constantly demanding and even making public complaints to other employees and even customers (all this for a minimum wage, which here in Brazil means nothing). I would like to change jobs, but in this country we have a high unemployment rate and many people accept to work for minimum conditions and even below, and I depend on money to help my family. I would like to raise the discussion of how people from underdeveloped countries and with high unemployment can fight for more dignified working conditions and a…

So, I see the idea of a general strike tossed around a lot on the internet, and I'm kinda curious. What's stopping everyone from actually organizing one in some way. To be clear, I am not particularly skilled at organization nor am I a very influential person, but I feel like with the amount of organizers and people who are skilled in this way, we could very seriously set dates and make a framework for local organizers to do the more local detailed organizing and setting up things like strike funds. If we put our heads and voices together I feel like it'd be achievable and we may be able to make real change. Sorry that this is a bit rambly, I'm not great with words, but I just wanted to put it out there.