Author: Olivia

I've worked at this grocery store for about a year and a half. I've been asking to move to grocery or become cashier for a year because I'm sick of getting carts in the rain and the heat. The best got was cashier cross training for no additional pay. My managers said they'd try to get me moved but it's been a stalemate for a while. When I said I was quitting, she said I had a future there. What future? You won't let me get promoted or move departments. I have the rest of my life to be unhappy at a job, so I decided to just quit. My mental health is more important than some minimum wage job, there are hundreds out there. I already had another job so I might just get more hours there. The managers actually stand up for their employees at my other job.…

I understand it to mean Paid Time Off, but I object to the frame of reference it creates. I feel it is designed to plant a seed of guilt if you apply for it or (even worse) actually use it. “Oh you want PTO? You expect to be paid while you go to the doctor or look after your kids or even take a holiday?” It creates the mindset that they are doing you a favour; they are paying you while you should be working. Other jurisdictions call it Annual Leave or Annual Holidays and this to me is right. If you're in a place you accrue 'time off' at a certain rate, that's your holiday time whether you go to Nepal, binge Netflix or look after a sick relative. It's a subtle semantic shift I've noticed and it makes me goddam furious. This sub is full of people who…

I see a lot of posts on this sub-Reddit bemoaning specific features of a world capitalist system, but which fail to point to any broader solution other than unionization and legislation, when these are not viable long term solutions. For example, somebody will talk about automation and it’s effect on job loss, to which the answer is inevitably “implement UBI”. Sure, that might briefly mitigate some aspects of the crisis, but the race to the bottom will never cease as long as the workers remain under the yoke of the same economic system. For example, under, say, a planned economy that does not rely on a small group of elite freeloaders to plan society’s economic output, automation could be used for good. Menial jobs could be progressively phased out while the workers displaced are retrained and provided new employment in their field of choice without the fear of going bankrupt,…

For context I’m 19 and living in Colorado, USA. I have been trying to find a summer job in between school years and Hobby Lobby was hiring stockers at 18.50 an hour (hate the company but that’s a lot of money!) I applied last night and then had my interview this morning. It went very well and the offered me the job… with a caveat. I would be hired as a part-time employee (I applied asking for full time), which only makes me eligible for 13.75 an hour. That’s a 25% reduction! This isn’t because I’m going back to school either because I told them I dropped out. Everyone I’ve talked to is just telling me to take it but I feel like I’ve been fucked over and I don’t want to work at a place that fucked me over before my first day even started. Any advice?