Author: Olivia

After Christmas break I thought I would start back assisting this person as their assistant. But they later informed me that we would be taking a break for the month and would like to “bump” my pay in the upcoming month. But in the meantime they still want me to do little tasks here and there. Like updating their website, posting on social media. They are trying to mentor me and help me get to my goals. They know that I live with my parents, so their excuse was “It’s not like you have any bills”. I work in the entertainment industry and this person is known. What would you do and how do I not burn any bridges?

this week i'm working 9.5 to 10+ hr shifts. i get off at 1:30 am this morning. i got scheduled for a mandatory training meeting at 8:30 am this morning. so i'll be trying to retain safety information on maybe 4 hrs of sleep, if i'm lucky. the meeting ends at 1:30 pm, and my next shift is at 4pm and ends again at 1:30. oregon law says there has to be 10 hrs between shifts, but maybe my employers get away with this as a mandatory meeting you clock in for, not a shift. I really don't know. I'm just exhausted and frustrated. I've been falling asleep at the wheel with these machines as it stands. Why the hell do I have to push myself so hard when its not even legal? (try and restrain yourself from making the sleep deprivation a contest, please. we're all human and all…

I was under the impression that “2 weeks of paid vacation time” a year meant that I’m legally allowed to be able to take the vacation time without having to trade shifts for every single day of the vacation. My current workplace is making it so that basically no one can use their vacation days. I can only trade days with a very small number other people of my same role (we’re short staffed of course ), so in order to take a week long break for example, I have to convince like 2 or maybe 3 other people to sacrifice their days off to work my five shifts, then when I come back I get to work 6 or 7 day weeks to make up for the days I got my coworkers to cover for me. Nobody’s happy about this, can someone tell me if this is even legal?!…

I feel like when layoffs start happening and other companies see this they can also make cuts too and not be the “bad guy” in these situations. I also feel like with the layoffs companies can continue to not give raises and/or meet employee demands. It seems like even competing companies “stick together” and gain leverage over workers and start to take back what we may have gained through covid workplace changes. So back to my initial question… how long till we losr any and all leverage we may have and are told to be lucky we have a job in these times?

I don’t know if I should post here, or r/aspergers. My bosses boss (she leads all of us) asked me today to make sure that each desk, over 5 floors has a chair (I am fine with that) then asked to make sure 4 chairs are around 3 tables, in open plan meeting areas on each floor. I do that, but the problem is I can’t time/figure out or stop people in the building from grabbing a chair, from wherever they want, or their own, taking it in into a meeting room, using it, and not bringing/putting it back, to where they took it in the first place. So I finish putting the four chairs in each section, go to the next floor, do the same thing there, go to the previous floor, and all the chairs have been removed or placed elsewhere, making me feel anxious, thinking that if…

I think what r/antiwork represents more than anything else, is the failure of the capitalist incentive structures that were put in place to keep the working class complacent. Since the 1970s, the advent of computers and better technology gave employers an excuse to decouple the rise in wages with the rise in productivity. Thus the former have stagnated and we find ever more insidious ways of keeping the workers in their place. The article posted regarding how debt keeps workers in the US from striking is an example of this, as well as the unanimous vote of the government to shut down the rail strike and forbid paid sick leave for those workers. What I think is good about this is the insane desperation capitalists seem to have now. All economic news outlets have their hot take of the week about how the working class is to blame for X,…