Author: Olivia

I'm in my late 20s and during a typical week I probably work ~60 hours in my corporate job – it's a high-pressure environment but I enjoy what I do and take pride in various promotions and work achievements that I have been able to accomplish over time. My boyfriend is in his early 30s and has a JD. He was initially working as a lawyer before moving to a part-time schedule due to a serious surgery which required several months of recovery. Due to his pride, he never went on disability and supported himself mainly through income from sports betting (I know, that's a whole separate discussion…) and from his parents. It's been now a little over the year since the surgery and he refuses to return to full-time employment. I expressed to him (multiple times) that I want to start a family soon, that I want to become…

hey all, i quit my job a few weeks back. i started with an orientation and didn’t bother with the job because they just blatantly lied about everything. The hours, the pay, the job itself was all bull. anyways, i quit and didn’t show back. i have the ADP app and i see that the paycheck with my address but never arrived. something is telling me this job is holding my check purposely. any suggestions as to what i should do?

I interviewed with a company that likely would be higher pay and a better skill builder. I don’t think they would offer it to me, but if they did, I wouldn’t take it. It was a small business and the owner asked if I would work overtime to handle projects getting behind schedule. I said yes but would prefer not to. Maybe not the best response in an interview, but his snarky response was, “I prefer not to get behind.” At that point I just wanted to be done with the interview. I was reminded of a terrible job I used to work (also a small business) where I was screamed at frequently when schedule slipped, and I was really depressed the whole time I worked there. The owner was also adamant that the fast pace is usually too much for people and they wanted to make sure I understood…

Every time I worked a low wage job, it was because I needed to find something fast, so I didn’t have time to wait for or search for a better opportunity. Every time I finally left a terrible job, I found a new one with either better working conditions, a better paying wage, or both. Am I wrong to think that it’s a very good idea to just always keep my resume out there, and casually search the job market for better opportunities? I feel like that would benefit wages in general if companies knew their employees could leave at any moment…

I’ll preface this by saying I understand I have a lot of privilege to be able to just leave the US and get financial support from my parents through university. Many people have to put up with this nonsense daily just to afford basic necessities so I’m very grateful and want to be a part of the labour movement as much as possible. I’m a university student in the UK, but I grew up in the US. Throughout high school I worked, and I’m still working part time throughout uni. Last month, when I was back in the US seeing my family over the holidays, I took a few shifts at my high school job for some extra cash whilst my parents were working. The owner of the place has become a family friend, it’s a small business and he’s always treated me fairly. In my maybe thirty total hours…

I started working at 16 at a local grocery store during a worker’s strike. At the time, I was anti-union because of the treatment me and my fellow young employees received by the strikers (being yelled at every day before clocking in, having some employees’ vehicles vandalized, including my own). We were making minimum wage to sweep floors and bag groceries, and I couldn’t understand why these people were so entitled. Was told multiple times by management that top performers would be offered regular jobs when the labor dispute was settled. That was (obviously, in hindsight) a lie. None of us got to stay. Not a one. That’s when I first considered it was all bullshit and maybe the union was right. Subsequent years of working shit jobs and having promotions/raises dangled in front of me only to have them torn away would solidify that sentiment. Then going back to…

Five nights at Freddy’s is a game where despite absolutely atrocious working conditions and constant fear of death we keep counting the minutes till our shift is over and come back the next day to do it all again.