Author: Olivia
8 years ago, my uncle helped get me a job at his old place of work. They had asked him if he knew anyone looking for a job and it just so happened that I was, so he sent me their way. It was a lot of work but paid $5/hr more than most places in my little city so I was more than happy to start. I looked forward to the small crew (one manager and 3 coworkers in total if we aren't counting the owner) I truly wish I hadn't. The owner lived in a different state and spent his entire day watching the security cameras, looking for any excuse to call and yell at us. I was scheduled for 10 or 12 hr shifts but they always kept me there for at least 15. I was expected to show up 10 minutes early but clock in on…
Story Time! I had a job working in the medical field as an on-site Emt out in San Francisco. The job was alright and good experience but the pay was really low. When I asked me boss for a raise he kinda flipped out and said your raise is coming and hinted I was ungrateful. Well, like anyone else would, I didn’t take that well. Especially since the raise was nothing and I was struggling just to get by (working 60-70 hours a week). So, I began looking for a new job. While searching I found a great job (I thought at the time) and applied. Sure enough I received an immediate response and was interviewed right away. I was told I was more then qualified and that they would send me an offer letter right away. I asked her what the pay/hours were. She respond that the pay was…
A common theme of discussion in r/antiwork/ has been why work in a capitalist economy is always and necessarily exploitative. Jacobin recent published an interview with Nicholas Vrousalis about his new book exploring the subject, in a piece called “Only Socialism Can Put an End to Exploitation”. The general question is answered succinctly in an excerpt from the interview… Capitalism is the concentrated, and therefore unequal, ownership of scarce productive assets, whose productive use is geared toward the maximization of profit. This unilateral control over scarce productive assets gives their owners control over the labor capacities of those who have only these capacities to sell in return for access to productive assets. And this, in turn, gives asset owners unilateral control over the material surplus and, by extension, over the exercise of the stock of labor capacities that constitutes surplus production. This is how workers come to produce their own…
So I'm not living in the states as a heads up, I live in Sri Lanka. My company is going through an Audit on next thursday and friday. Normally I don't work the weekends but I was called to work on Saturday which, while I was annoyed, I put up with since my country unemployment plan is you lose your job live on the streets. I want to point out I finished all my work within an hour today so I spent the last few hours just on the net trying to pass time till I got home… and then about an hour before I got to leave the told me they wanted me to come in on sunday as well. As in the whole plant is coming on sunday, and they expect us to come on monday again and do the full five days. In short, they want us…
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Current Job Flexibility Landscape
Interesting read on WFH post Covid.
