Author: Olivia

I like my job as much as one can, I work graveyard shift with my fiance at a restaurant, just him and I and it's super lax. Only seen a manager 4 times including being hired working there for a year. Today my manager messaged us and asked if “we would consider working 5days a week” because she needs to move the other 3rd shift person who works the days we don't “strictly to second shift” my boss is a nice lady but I'm struggling with how to say “no” in a way that isn't my gut of “no, we'll quit” lol Like I know myself pretty well at this point, any time I've had a five day a week job, I've woken up one day and I snap, just can't do it anymore, and ghost those mother fuckers and start applying for a new job rather than go back…

I worked at a popular, now defunct electronics retailer in the early 2000s (call them shortcut shitty? ). Anyways we had an old ass PS2 in the break room for employees to use when they had a free minute, lunch, whatever. I'd spent some time learning how to side load my own PS2 to launch programs from the memory card, which once they launch they're in memory and run til it's restarted. So…. I brought in my memory card and disc combo that worked, loaded up SNESStation (emulator) on the break room game system, and started it up on some Super Mario All-Stars, because honestly who doesn't love some Mario? It took a week for our dipshit store manager to realize we were playing Mario on Sony! 🤣🤣🤣 He lost his shit like Sony or Nintendo we're going to personally sue him for employees enjoying themselves and it wasn't even…

Probably a very unpopular take, because a large number of people here are working for these deplorable companies, that squeeze their employees while dangling that “well, but with tips your salary will be…”-carrot in front of them, but let me give you my take on this monster that your country has created. Now let's start at the beginning. Your industry is rotten to its core, as perhaps the only sector that allows business owners to pay you less than Federal Minimum Wage, and claim the rest as a tax-credit, shifting more than ⅔ of the responsibility of paying a liveable wage onto society at large. Over the past few months I've seen an uptick in what is considered “good form” to leave as a tip, where the only way to get out from under it seems to be acute food poisoning that requires medical intervention. And it recently culminated to…

…you started saving 10,000$ every day. Every single day – and you never spend a dime. Fast forward 82023 years later, you're still saving 10,000$ per day, yet to spend any of it. Yet even though you've been doing this for over 80,000 years you still aren't as wealthy as Elon Musk. Just. Insane.

I'm on danish welfare and would like to stay on that for a while and I have to send two job applications every week and the problem is that I'm quite qualified, but I don't want a job, I want to be self employed, which I was until I went bankrupt. If I make a real effort in my applications, I will probably get invited to interviews, which I don't really want. Any suggestions on how I can signal in my applications that I'm not actually looking for the job, without saying it outright? I was thinking about saying stuff like: “I consider myself at a senior level in experience even if my resume doesn't show it” “I'm very good at working alone and prefer that. Some might consider me a loner, but I just want to do a good job and go home” “I don't really have a lot…

I don’t care how bad I need to use the restroom while I’m at work I REFUSE to take a shit on my breaks. I only poop while on the clock.

Karl Marx was a German economist/philosopher who espoused how valuable Labor was for society. Unfortunately his name carries a LOT of baggage mainly due to the 1%ers who find his words dangerous, and they've used endless propaganda to smear him. So is there any other well know economist whom we can quote with ideas similar to Marx, but without enabling the strawman of something like “Oh, you're a commie Marxist” to deflect the argument. Otherwise, to show just how valuable labor is, and how any threat to keeping it's cost low is a threat to profits and power, consider this… Why did so many Empires (Roman, Spanish, Muslim, British, etc) put so much effort into keeping slavery going? Why did the richest American Southerners .. the Plantation owners… foster a Civil War to protect slavery? Why did the richest American industrialists do everything to squash labor unions, and still do…

The company I work for is based in California but also has branches in Colorado, Jersey, Ohio etc.. we have job openings at all locations listed on LinkedIn, Monster and our corporate website but none have pay scales provided which I though was mandatory? Is there a way to anonymously report the posting as incomplete? Trying not to rock the boat at this stage by addressing with HR because a posting very similar to my current position is listed but want to know what their offering.