Author: Olivia

Long time lurker here. I understand that some of you have been around since this sub had 14 people, you disagree with this person’s views or that person’s comment. It needs to stop. I am all for uprooting the system as much as the next antiworker, but let’s be real. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of small victories before we start seeing major victories that lead to real changes. I don’t care if you’re an anarchist, a social democrat, or anything else on the spectrum. I don’t care if your end goal is fair work conditions or not having to work at all. We are NOWHERE near either of those right now. If you’re both against the shit conditions we have now and want to see change for the better, YOU ARE ON THE SAME TEAM. That has to be good enough for now. Once…

Obviously the way the general public perceives unions has become really negative. This has overall drove wages way down. Benefits have gotten worse, or in some cases become non-existent. First things first, the term union needs to die, and be replaced with something better. The first step is to unite republicans and democrats again. Second, let’s abolish or lower minimum wage. This whole discussion of a “minimum wage” has created a society of people who want to do the bare minimum, and just accept that’s all they will do. Pitiful, imagine if farmers had the same mindset and there was no excess. Food prices would not be just inflated (like they are now) but would literally be unaffordable Third, if you want good benefits YOU CAN WORK FOR IT YOU ENTITLED FUCKS. Do you really think Jeff bezos, bill gates, and Elon became so wealthy by doing nothing? No, they…

i want to see both sides of the argument

I'm asking this here because I know a lot of people work in the food service business in this sub, and I also wanted to get their perspective. So it's relevant. I like going to very reclusive, calm, spacious and peaceful restaurants. I don't like loud noises and I especially hate loud music in restaurants (I'm 26). If I go to a restaurant/cafe that has loud music, I always tell the waiter/manager to turn it down or preferably turn it off. Usually this request is met. But few times, waiters would just turn it down a little bit and then later turn it back up. Either because they enjoy the music or they think other customers “need” it. My view is that music isn't an essential part of the restaurant experience. Even if it were, if it's causing a negative physical impact on a customer, it's not the end of…

I unfortunately work at a public relations agency (although I’m leaving this job in two weeks). Anyway, we’re required to bill our time to clients. So basically we have a timesheet and each day I have to bill everything I’ve done for the day in the .25 increments, so like “.75 writing this op-ed for client A” “1.25 doing this research for client B” etc. and you have to get ur increments to add up to at least 40 hours per week to submit the timesheet and you have to have 90% of your time of the week be attributed to client work (as opposed to admin stuff like attending a company all staff meeting or something). Its so annoying bc I work really fast and so some shit just takes me a shorter time to get done! And while most jobs would love someone who works fast, its always…

There’s literally no point in diving our user base over the specifics of our long term goals. To abolish capitalism in favor of anarchy, shift to socialism, or whatever requires the same beginning steps. We’re most powerful together, so we should be focusing on the short term goals of better working environments, pay, etc.