Author: Olivia

My boyfriend works a really shitty job (management) but at an upscale restaurant and gets great tips. He started working there a few weeks and the restaurant has a first 5 shifts policy for training. No tips but federal minimum wage. He finished that weeks ago but the owner decides to come in today decided he wasn’t trained properly on the menu enough by his own “bullshit standards” and told him he’s going back to training again so no tips for the foreseeable future and back to federal minimum wage. But he did this literally an hour into his shift. Told him the rest of the shift and forward until he passes a “test”. I know in most states legally employers are required to give you notice if they are going to reduce your wage. Is this in the case of texas too?

We still live in the medieval model. Capitalism and working is the exact same as when kings and queens owned the land and peasants had to pay tribute and taxes to survive. We are not progressing as a society. Just rebranding. Screw work! All it means is sacrificing your body and time for someone who feels entitled to it.

We still live in the medieval model. Capitalism and working is the exact same as when kings and queens owned the land and peasants had to pay tribute and taxes to survive. We are not progressing as a society. Just rebranding. Screw work! All it means is sacrificing your body and time for someone who feels entitled to it.

We still live in the medieval model. Capitalism and working is the exact same as when kings and queens owned the land and peasants had to pay tribute and taxes to survive. We are not progressing as a society. Just rebranding. Screw work! All it means is sacrificing your body and time for someone who feels entitled to it.

I'm currently unemployed and I have been going to interviews lately. Yesterday I went to an interview with the hiring manager and I was instructed on the phone, by who I believe to be HR, to dress up professionally for the interview, to wear a tie, shave and all of that. When I arrive there the manager was wearing shorts and flip flops. He seemed to be trying really hard to get me to accept the job but only offered me an average salary and was surprised and I wasn't thrilled when he told me the amount. He gave me a week to accept the offer. Honestly I think I'll politely and respectfully decline it, probably on Monday.

With no hope in sight and incompetent managers and leaders, what is an actual viable solution for the current mess we're all in? Companies pay like shit, we're tired of work, everything is getting more expensive, AI is replacing many of us… What can be done to make it all better?