Author: Olivia

Anyone seen Severance? Great anti-professionalism/capitalist art I recommend ‍️ it because who pays for apple tv. Anyway I’ll try to give a summary of the with minimal spoilers, but if you want to go in blind- its a great kafkaesque comedy/drama about late stage capitalism and dehumanization of the employee. Watch it fr. So the basic premise is that people can be cognitively split between their work selves and their free selves. Their work selves remember and experience nothing but office drudgery and their free selves never have to step into the office. Aside from more wishy washy themes of how memory and narrative shapes our identities, I think the main target of the show’s satire is professionalism. Its a joke, and a cruel one for the “innies” trapped in the office their whole lives. These perma-employees have to act, talk, and feel a certain way lest they be “corrected”…

I worked for a company that designed and installed customized workspaces (mostly meeting rooms and auditoriums). We integrated a lot of equipment (audio / video, lighting, control systems, furnishings, etc.) so companies could do impressive presentations for their clients and employees. It's a niche industry that is heavily affected by the ups and downs of the economy, so it is difficult to find and retain good experienced designers and installers. I'd had enough of the company management, and quit. I was the lead engineer, but they kept allowing the head salesman to overrule my design decisions (which usually ended up costing the company money as his changes did not work – which I would then get blamed for). I was also supposed to keep the schedule for the installers, but management would overrule my schedule and send installers to different destinations at the last moment – causing upset customers (that…

Hi All, I took my current role in a fortune 500 company about 2 years ago. It was a new role that the company created as they were venturing into territory previously unknown to them. I am a manager of one (but not titled as a manager), and our scope of work is very niche. Recently I learned that the company was hiring an official Manager for the department. I of course, applied thinking I would get the promotion because I am the one who has developed the program from scratch over the last 2 years, and that would free up a position under me for me to hire another person to share the workload. I was wrong. They hired an external manager above me who I now report to, and have had my title changed to that of the person I was managing previously (making us equals as far…

Last year I (26M) moved to a new city for a new job. Long story short, the owner of that company was one of the biggest scumbags I've ever met and after only three months (I was already searching for a different job because of how toxic of a work environment he made it) I was let go. I've really never in my life been a part of a “good” work environment, and this was just another addition to that long list. I delivered for Uber Eats to get me through the winter, and it got me until I got a new job, but just barely. I still didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life, so I decided to just try and find a seasonal job I'll have fun with to get me through the summer and to the end of my lease. I ended up…

For context, I work at the corporate office of a large company as a receptionist. I am without a doubt the least paid person there (I know this because I hand out cheques to employees who are too old/lazy to get direct deposit and my company does nothing to hide those numbers). Many of the interns (who got jobs because their parents are on the board) get paid better than me even though I'm full time and do WAYYYY more work that what a receptionist usually would and get assigned a ton of totally unrelated work. While the company gives me nice perks, I would much rather just get paid a fair wage, what I make in a month wouldn't even cover the rent for the average apartment in my city (which is notoriously expensive). The company also spends INSANE money on tons of unnecessary stuff (I know this because…