Author: Olivia

I'm Venezuelan, I moved to the US about 8-9 years ago and, last year, I moved back to my country. I honestly couldn't take it anymore. Out of 7 years in the US, the only days off I had were when I quit and I was changing jobs, or when COVID-19 hit and I couldn't find a job for seven months. I don't understand how you guys (Americans) can live there, no days off without worrying about money or worrying about a call from your manager, no (easy/obligatory) paid vacation, no time for yourselves and your family, not worrying about being exploited. It was hell. Of course, this doesn't apply to the oligarchy (yes, you guys have a very clear oligarchy, even if some of you (most likely probably not even following this sub) don't want to see it. After all those years in the US, after grinding and paying…

I keep pets and I have exotics. Recently I lost a beloved pet of mine (giant snail) very suddenly. I'd had them from a tiny egg, it was devastating. I wasn't scheduled to work on that day but had been called up and asked to cover a shift that quite literally had just started. I was still in the process of bawling but said I could make it. Due to heavy traffic and roadworks, I took maybe 30-40 minutes, so I was late to cover. This was apparently enough to write me up over, even though I mentioned I'd be late, and explained that my pet had died. I still came in, but it felt like I'd been punished for trying.

I see this question a lot from our international friends who actually have worker protections. I see a lot of answers, but I think the big, finite answer is this: geography. Y’all understand how big we are, right? I don’t mean powerful or populus. I just mean BIG. There are acres and acres of open land. Those acres and acres aren’t just physical distance that keeps us from organizing. They’re ideological. Each of our states are their own little countries with their own rules and federal law only intervenes when federal law wants to, or can. Our court system is ridiculously complicated., It's why you can get an abortion every day of the week in California but go to jail for performing one in Texas. Asking us why we don’t strike is a bit like asking why the entirety of the European Union doesn’t strike all at the same time.…

i mentally cannot go on in this job, this last two shifts i had to leave within about 3hrs because i just broke down. been looking into remote works (i already work remotely) but nothing pops up and i feel absolutely hopeless. i don’t know what i want from this post, guidance? what you did when you got this low? i don’t want to do anything drastic but its all my head can think of

In my day job, I'm a service tech who gets sent all over my state to make repairs. About a year and a half ago, I started to track all the sites in my territory. Prior to this position I had a little bit of data crunching and computer experience, so I wrote a small program to collect data points from every active customer. The software I wrote is designed to look for anomalies. Things that show up outside the normal patterns. I had an inkling that by following the data and checking out the anomalies, I could predict the sites where issues would come up and take a proactive approach. Fixing the issues before they become service calls. That program ended up working extremely well. So we'll in fact that it uncovered a fatal flaw in our system that was effecting our companies efficiency in delivery. But spending a…

I was offered a job and when I got my contract I found out that the pay is way below minimum wage. I live in Europe, in my country you cannot make law for yourself like this, there is minimum wage and that's it. They basically gave me a worthless contract. I'm just so annoyed. Is it really so much to ask for at least minimum pay? I feel like people are just too greedy. I quit, obviously. I don't want to work for someone else's happiness while not even getting the minimum myself.

Horrible Miami Beach Restaurant Work Experience Hello everyone! I’m here to basically rant and be hateful because they fucked me and my co-workers over) (Also sorry for the bad grammar 🥲) So there is this Puerto Rican restaurant (just in case I won’t give names here) that I used to work that has a ton of shit happening so let me just cut to the key points. •They made undocumented staff scared and made them run because supposedly there were cops doing rounds because of the new law that is going to be passed here in FL. •They fucked the manager over by erasing all her work and taking credit as their own while she was on vacation and they are planning to fire her and shitting on her work. •The owners and sister in law (family of owners) sexually harassed (no touch mostly comments or stares) staff members including…

The criticisms levied against work and a profane world built around it in this subreddit are not invalid, but I think it is too experience based. If that makes sense. Not to say that that is a bad thing, but I think a theoretical backdrop, if not a metaphysical one (if that isn't a misuse of the term). One fairly unknown philosopher who discusses this and whose arguments could be construed to be one that opposes the land of work (which he names, the world of the profane), is Georges Bataille. What I want to do in this post is lay out some of the views he has regarding work and to see how it can relate to the anti-work movement. Now it is worth considering that Bataille, probably, didn't use Work in the Marxist sense. So as a term that included labour, as opposed to specifically wage labour or…

Are the media, in all their shapes and forms trying to make the idea of slavery ok again? Historical documentaries on many current platforms seem to be shockingly comfortable with the idea of humans being slaves, owned by a certain class of society. US Civil War – Slavery was another political plot point, no big deal. Just a normal old thing that Americans used to do until they didn’t… Ancient Rome – Slaves used to hold high ranking civil service jobs or whatever. The narrative is always like wow they were so common they could work in the government. A lot of current media seems to conform to this normalisation of slavery. Very much implying “if you’re not a slave you’re one of us” you better not rock the boat.