Antiwork

This was nearly a decade ago by now, but in 2013 I got a job at the Anthropologie store in San Antonio. I was young and in college so I was stoked to get a “cool” retail job somewhere where I would be able to get a sizeable discount on some clothes and save some cash for school. They kept calling me Emily the whole time I worked there (not even CLOSE to my name) because they hired me at the same time they hired a girl named Emily. Kinda shitty, but the worst part was that at the end of the day they required every single item in the store to be folded and “fluffed.” If the store ran out of hours they were able to pay people for their work they would literally have us clock out and then continue working, telling us it was OUR fault for…

I've had a fair share of employment stories in my time and this is one of my first ones. Back in the days, when I was a student, one of my first job was in housekeeping for a relatively big and well known hotel chain. After a couple of days of training, we (the new recruits) were sent on our own…. I know, I know… cleaning a hotel room is as easy as cleaning your own room at home. Well … almost so, if you get to clean a few in a day. Not so much if you get to clean 10 or 15 in an 8 hour shift and still get it done perfectly. No OT ofc. OT for base hourly pay is expensive. 🙂 As a couple of weeks went by, the manager started complaining about the level of work we do and how their top 10 years…