Author: Olivia

This isn't a brain piece. This isn't going to make you think more deeply about late stage capitalism. This is a shitty hate piece about how the work world is operating, and how dehumanizing it is. At a later stage in life, I can tell you work is fucked (in the US). I don't think a lot about the macro factors that are at play in the equation. Are billionaires the problem? Probably. I just know what I've experienced. At this stage, I think joining a union seems pretty smart. That, or going camping with the Rainbow Coalition. Fuck it. Here's my experience. I got a job right out of college. Mailroom. Starting pay. Lived on spaghetti and broccoli for something like three years. Biked to and from work, the store, anywhere I went. I was fit, sure, but only because a car was out of reach. Someone, thankfully, saw…

I am an occupational therapist working in a small urban charter school. I’m planning on taking a step back after this school year to spend more time with family. I was chatting with the intervention specialist about upcoming IEPs and goals for next school year and casually asked if she was planning on coming back next school year. I let her know that I’m planning on spending a year off with my young children. I didn’t get any impression that the conversation made her uncomfortable and she didn’t say anything to me about it. I later got this email from the principal/ administrator (copied and pasted from my email, and I switched out my name with “OP”: “Good morning OP and contract relationship manager, I just wanted to point out that it was brought to my attention that OP felt it was necessary to talk to my employees about their…

I’m hourly and asked to drive from one location to another for work and I forgot to punch out so they fired me for time theft because I wasn’t on property during the time I was driving. I was a model employee and all I’ve learned is that you can’t make a mistake and bosses can’t be trusted.

Out of curiosity, what do you do for a living and what made you join this group/develop this mindset?

I recently did a PR internship for a company and I was tasked to create pitches for publications (amongst many other things). I would create those pitches and then post them in a google drive folder that I created with my own personal account and then share the folder access with my employer. However I have just now quit due to the company being disorganized and it being too much to handle for for a part time unpaid internship. The employer was very rude and petty about me quitting so now I don’t want them to have access to the pitches I created for them. So, would it be legal for me to kick them out of my google folder?

So a few months ago the company I work at decides that my supervisor needs to move to a different section of the warehouse, and they need to hire someone, we'll call him Jimmy, to replace him. Turns out he's an idiot. I'm told I will now train Jimmy how to do my job. Wouldn't be weird but this guy takes any type of criticism as a personal attack, and of course that makes me nervous. I spent almost 3 months training him and he just isn't getting it…. Finally the bosses listened and gave me someone else to train. He picked it up immediately. I had planned on working this week and surgery next week. But no, Jimmy has been making shitty little comments about working through the pain, which I normally would do but the pain is neverending, and other comments like, “I don't even know what you…

Not sure how it works in other countries, but here, Easter is a long weekend – Friday to Monday – and stores are closed Friday and Sunday. Basically, if as part of your contact you work every Friday, you will still get paid for Friday because you would normally work that day, despite not working at all on Easter. So, would you, or do you, feel any guilt for still receiving payment for a day you're not even there working?

I told her 2 weeks ago if you guys are gonna fire me let me know before so i can search for another job somewhere else , she told me that everything is okay and we will NEVER fire you . Today i got fired because of her with 0 warning . I am completely shocked , i have my last interview tomorrow with her and the hr and i don't give a fuck about burning bridges anymore . I wanna tell her how much of a bitch she is to her face so bad .