Author: Olivia

I usually don’t break for lunch because I don’t have time (but they don’t know that). Now I have to make the time to spend with someone I don’t like.

I see many people complaining in this sub. What I always wondered, why so little people is willing to set up a coop? Specially for less capital intensive sectors, like IT workers that work for consultancy etc. In my city there's an IT coop wich is kinda famous in the IT world for the open source work they do. There's also a very big and famous supermarket chain which is a coop. The milk, cheese, yoghurt, chicken and olive oil I buy are from coop companies. In coops you get the fruit of your work (but you also deal with the consequences). In principle, it's a democratic system, although in practice I've seen that in most coops workers delegate the majority of decisions into voted managers, and they get meetings every months or every year to decide important topics. In northen spain the catholic church took the initiative with a…

I have to give 35h of my weeks, spread on 5 days. My job is physically and mentally tiring so much so that I can't even practice my passion. And barely see my friends because we all work. I don't date because I don't have the time or the energy. I basically feel like I'm alive to work a job that I hate. I'm on minimum wage after 2 years of working for the same company and can't even get my own place. I don't have any family members that could be my guarantor for an apartment which would at least make me feel better. I know this must sound ridiculous to people who work 50h a week with kids and whatever but that's how I feel. I tried talking about it with my friends and they made me feel like I'm childish and that's the way the world goes.…

I'm heavily involved in health and safety and my branch manager asked me to sit in for the Manager and Supervisor safety seminar (Zoom), discussing health and safety requirements. We get to the part about filling out an incident investigation, to be used for workers comp. purposes. The guy giving the seminar notes that: “Employees aren't allowed to fill out the investigation form.” Sure fine, makes sense. Then a manager jumps on and says: “Well, if we let the employees fill it out, they might nullify it or incriminate themselves.” Wait what? This manager is hoping an employee will incorrectly fill out the form and get denied worker's comp. I'm out, left the meeting, fuck this. A new low, these manager mindsets are disgusting.

Since returning to work from COVID lockdowns, my job has been working on negotiating permanent hybrid telework to “boost the morale and job satisfaction” of employees. We would be working from home 4 days a week, with the exception of one day a week in the office for tasks that can't be performed at home (I interview people, send correspondence from my work office, etc.) We just had a big meeting where it was announced that this will be happening sometime this year, with the official date still to be determined. However, we were also quickly informed that if we are to work from home, no one else can be in the house with us. This includes kids and other adults. I'm a parent. When they first brought up telework, I got excited about possibly saving myself $1500 a month in childcare expenses and spending more time with my kids.…

I work for a certain phone company that I have been with for like 3 months now because I was desperate for a job being a full time student and needed money. For a while it was great.. I got paid for just doing trainings and then I finally got to where I could sell phones and help people fix their phones and do what they need! It make me feel like I was doing something right and it felt good to help people navigate their way to getting the best bang for their buck. Well fast forward to now… we only have 2 people working at the store which is me and my boss. My coworker quite due to some reason, which left me working full time hours for part time pay and no benefits(which tbh aren't really benefits I need rn considering I am fortunate enough to have…