Antiwork

I’ve worked at a summer camp run by my city for 4 years, I’m my fifth year now. In 2019, I took time off during mandatory training which led me to be downgraded from full time to part time worker, and I was told it was policy. In 2020, the camp was closed due to covid, and since then they have been struggling to find new workers and keep old ones. Now in 2022, there is a shortage of workers and they’ve allowed many people to miss the mandatory trainings without repercussions. Should I contact my union? Is it too late to do anything? I feel like this is unfair, and no one informed me about a change in policy which would now allow employees to miss mandatory training.

So I was on the job market like a month and a half ago. I applied to a very specific Management position at a well known company within the area. The interview went well. They came back with an offer. They came back and offered me a lower titled position (non-management) around the 55K range. This was about 7K less than I was making at my current company and clearly a lowball offer. However, I was desperate to get out of my current company and I was still interviewing with other companies so I figured it could be a backup plan if I didn’t receive any other offers. I accepted their offer. About a week before my proposed start date, I received another offer for over 90K at another company I had been interviewing with before the lowball company. I immediately rescinded my acceptance of an offer from the lowballing…

I will try to keep this short but, I worked at a paper factory and was told by HR that I would get 50 and 75 cent raises after my 45 and 90 day review. I was given 25 cents each time. And after addressing it to HR they swore up and down they never said any numbers at my orientation. Fast forward 6 months later when I started through a temp agency I was told it would be 3 months until hiring. It took 4 months and it was past the period to where I would have been given 40 hours of PTO. People who began months after me were making much more than me for the same job with less experience. ( worked with one guy making 18.75 through agency) while I made 17.25 which I had to fight for.. after getting hired on. I worked C shift…

It's 4:30 am and my cats woke me up. I'm laying here trying to get back to sleep and a thought just popped in my head. I'm not sure how eloquent I'll be, but figured I'd post before I forget. We've talked about the intersection between female reproductive rights and workers rights a lot lately because of the recent court rulings. It got me thinking that there's a lot more intersectionality to explore. The root thought is that your only value is what you can produce. You have no intrinsic value. Everything is seen through the lens of consumption. Are you consumable? Then you have value. Can you produce labor? Can you produce offspring? Then you are a consumable resource to be exploited. Here's where I'm going to lose some folks, because I'm going to talk about animals and it might make you feel uncomfortable, but bare with me because…