From one of the the researchers Xenia: “One of my favourite projects this past year has been the Worker as Futurist project where Max, Graeme and I tried coaxing the science fictional elements of the amazon corporation through the workers own collective psyche by analyzing together a series of science fiction films and programs. Our approach was informed by the Worker's Inquiry method: a radical methodology that emerged in Northern Italy in the 1960s and offered both workers and intellectuals an ant’s-eye view of capitalism while revealing workers’ power. The goal of this action research was to see how the exploitative machinations of capitalism were not the ingenious orchestrations of the powerful but, in fact, the desperate, rear-guard attempt by capital writ large to contain and combat new forms of worker militancy. yesterday the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) published our findings and you could read about it here.…
Even Squidward gets it!
They test me every morning. The production manager has been asking how my son is and giving me a thumbs up for testing negative… while walking in five minutes late every day (6am). If any other hourly worker shows up late every they would be fired. Every day I watch the office staff (who come in at 8) come in with the same people showing up 5-10 minutes after they are expected to be in. But they are salary so it's ok I guess.
is it normal ? am I over reacting ?
Before we begin…. I'm in crisis and very emotional right now, and this just happened a few hours ago. I probly am missing a few details and everything is out of order and jumbled up. I just needed to get this off my chest. Thanks. I recently had a family crisis and it was all put on me suddenly. Ive had an enormous amount of pressure on me the past few years and I've been able to cope… Poorly but enough. Until I broke today. Let me give some background first actually. I work in a resturant that has been struggling to keep staff due to poor managment. But I've honestly never worked in a resturant that didn't have messed up corrupt management. So I assumed it's normal and acceptable. Of course I try as much as possible to leave shit at the door when I go into work. But…
Recruiters annoy me to no end
When I get invited to an Interview i make sure to always be on time. In fact, I am always at least 5min early. Besides all the other “rules” that you should consider during interviews, like not asking for pay and shit like that, how is it possibile, that in the 10-20 interviews I made, NOT ONE OF THE INTERVIEWERS had the common courtesy to be on time. They are ALWAYS LATE. It ranges from 2-3 min, to 10-20, and immediately I'm thinking, how is it a dealbreaker when i ask for pay, but you assholes can't be bothered to lift your ass off of your seat 2 min early?? When it was already announced that I'm waiting? Fucking hell, its asenine to lay out so many rules for the applicants, and then behave like complete trolls yourselves.