Author: Olivia

There is a strike coming up in my industry — which I myself am not affected by — and I want to make sure I'm acting in solidarity with the striking workers. I'm slightly confused what is meant by the expression “crossing the picket line”. Is it: – Scabbing? Knowingly or unknowingly taking on work set down by striking workers. – Continuing to work when you are a union member whose union is striking? – Continuing to work when you are a union member, but not part of the union which is striking? – Literally passing a physical picket line in order to gain access to the premises, whether you are a union worker or not? I'm non-union and am not in a position where I would be asked to scab. My thought is that if there are picket lines at my place of business, I will work from home…

Hello! Title says it all. Sick and tired of doing cr@p on Excel. I have some tricks to make some things easier. Share your favourite excel formulas so I can see if I can embed any of them for my use and we can be a happy anti-work community.

In my late teens, I (19m, at the time) worked for a law firm as a courier. I loved the job but the pay was meager. I had been working there for nearly two years when I was approached by a guy (early 20s) who was starting up a courier delivery company with his dad (40s). It would be limited to documents for law firms, courthouses, and other businesses. He offered me a higher hourly rate and a commission based on the clients I could bring in. Having been in the business for a couple of years already, I knew plenty of potential clients and ended up bringing in all but 1 over the first six months. As I was the only person doing any of the deliveries I wasn't able to complete all the new client paperwork for the clients I was bringing in, so I was instructed by…

Context to start things off, i’ve been working for Target for about a year and three months now and seeing as my previous job had been Walmart, I figured I found a big upgrade. There’s this ETL (manager) that i’ll refer to as just “etl.” I have yet to meet a person in the store that can stand her, I jokingly asked a coworker my first couple weeks there if there was anyone I should watch out for and i didn’t even finish my statement before the looked at me and said “etl, she’s easily the worst manager i’ve ever dealt with.” Now since that whole joke a year ago I had a couple issues here and there with her but nothing major, the the time she was just a “oh she works today, that’s annoying” kind of boss, up until the past month or so. A couple fridays back…

I’m being PIP’d out of my current job and I don’t even want another one. I feel like my job history (below) is telling me I’m not cut out for corporate America and I was just diagnosed with a learning disability which makes me feel even worse. Retail for the rest of my life feels better than how I feel right now. I’m good at retail and talking to people but that’s it. 🙁 sorry I’m just sad. Anyway. College graduation May 2012 Publishing job (rotational) July 2012 – Dec 2013 Marketing job I was fired from after a month March 2014 Retail july 2014-Aug 2015 Temp job JULY 15-Aug 15 fired from that – telemarketing Grad school Aug 15-Aug 16 Retail until my diploma came Nov 16 – Jan 17 Freelanced Jan 17 – Oct 17 Assistant/Exec assistant. Oct 17 – August 18 Boss sent me into depression hell…

It was destroying my mental health. Now I feel bad about it, and I feel bad that I feel bad about it. I need a cheer up. Thanks