Author: Olivia

I flip burgers and sauce wings at my job. Yesterday was the super bowl. I had to cook and sauce over 400 wings in the first hour of work and then it didnt stop until I got off. After cooking hundreds upon hundreds of meals for people how can I not even get a free meal or even afford to have a warm meal myself? I have to go home and eat peanut butter on toast everday. Working here for the past 4 months in total I've only received $32 in tips. Honestly how much longer can society live like this? I know I'm not the only person living this shitty existence! If someone is cooking food for thousands a day, how can I not get something to eat? Fuck!

Obviously US based, but this is outrages, how our country is treating workers, teachers, our rights, automating learning, furthering capitalism. They want more control and it’s coming unless we do something

I recently got engaged and am wanting to get out of PMC work for my personal safety and for the emotional security of my soon to be wife, so I signed on as an armed guard for a local security company; During the hiring process I told them that I still have one contract left in Northern Iraq on the 27th of February. They said it would be no problem and just to inform my direct supervisor and operations manager. This was in November. I have at the beginning of every month since then reminded my supervisor and operations manager that I am leaving the 27th for my last contract after which I'll be coming back to the company. Today I received a phone call from HR telling me that if I leave the country the 27th for my contracted rotation that I will forfeit all benefits of employment (which…

Everybody is running around like mad men trying to make my workplace not look like it’s falling apart because a couple corporate big wigs are coming to run their bs numbers and I’m still just doing my job (and taking my appropriate amount of breaks of course ). All they’re going to do is walk by me, say hi and maybe “ask about how things are going” so I’ll bs that too if necessary. And if they decide to fire me, I’ll just go on unemployment for a while until I decide what I really want to do in life. I’m not jumping because despite our conditioning, corporate managers are people, not gods. Life is so much better when you realize that you are so much more than just a rich man’s toy.