Author: Olivia

For me, I feel that I have a much harder time keeping track of my hours, which I feel leaves room for the company to potentially screw me as I do work overtime, but not on a consistent week to week amount, so my check vary. Idk, I don’t like these apps and wish I could get a paper stub each week but the company said they don’t do that, I have to print them out myself.

I work in IT. My boss this week tasked me with uninstalling a specific software on some of our companies computers. I got the report generated of what PC’s had this said software, uninstalled as instructed, and closed the ticket out. Big boss boy comes up and says “hey I saw you closed ticket 12345, but you forgot a PC”. I looked at him surprised and said “oh, which one?” He said “Mine”. (Yes, I did see his PC on the list but I figured the guy that tasked me would’ve uninstalled it on his own PC??). I tried my best not to look at him with a ‘are you shitting me’ look but I’m sure I did lol. I just responded with “oh.. I assumed you would’ve uninstalled it on your own PC.” He said “Nope, doesn’t matter. In the future if there’s a program that needs to be…

Internship = that time when you work for free in exchange for experience points Why do people let shit like this happen…. People in their 20s hardly have any sort of income to sustain themselves and now we've added an even bigger difficulty to game, forcing them to work for an apparent and completely abstract ideal that somehow working for free is now a service for the person being slaved out instead of pointing out the hypocrisy for what it is. Youre telling me that 12 years of public education + 4 years of college aren't enough, I must also work for free for 2 years now. I can only wonder when society will start consider UBI instead of adding layers upon layers of social mockery as an attempt to create meaning from within

Is this legal? I interviewed at company X for a job. They had the salary range and I went for the very top of the bracket – actually 10% more because I told her I was earning more than the bracket in my current role so I’d need a raise to move. It was a new position at X so they didn’t have anyone else there doing the same job to compare internally. They were surprised as I don’t have the most experience but the hiring manager said she really liked me. She said she’d fight to get the extra budget to offer me what I wanted, but I should send her a copy of my old contract or a payslip so she could justify to her CFO why I should be hired on more money. Trouble is, I’m not on anywhere near that in my current job so I…

I recently started working and I have a hard time getting used to being exploited. What makes you keep going forward?

Anti work is contentious, but I don't know why anyone would want to build equity for someone else and not themselves. New, small businesses are the real grit of the economy. But still- the zeitgeist is “buy a home you'll never afford.” And we don't need Joe Capitalist- co ops, credit unions, unions, decentralized voting algorithms exist. The only thing that holds us back is paperwork and disdainful opinions, which, to be fair, is horrendously miserable. I'm optimistic… Surprisingly… But I also think that 2007, the “Great Financial Crisis,” was an economic depression dubbed “The Silent Depression,” and both the need for businesses as well as new business models will end this period. So we're conditioned. Thinking like a Great Depression worker has helped me, and it makes me wonder why we make the world harder for ourselves. I'll always work for myself; I'm just tired of working for some…