Antiwork

It puts pressure on employees to feel like they have to go to look good and move up in the company. Also, it’s taking MORE time away from their family. For example, my fiancé’s job has a monthly pizza party. Always falls on a Friday night. They have ALCOHOL provided and whatnot. I’m over here thinking, we get TWO good nights a week where we don’t have to be expected to wake up in the morning to be at work. He spends 2+ hours a day commuting and spends 9 hours at work. By the time he gets home, eats, and showers, it’s time to go to sleep. Then you’re going to try to waste part of his weekend with a stupid pizza party? So frustrating. I know they’re trying to build culture. DO IT DURING THE DAY WHEN PEOPLE ARE GETTING PAID. ETA- my fiancé typically doesn’t go, but…

I'm a youth advocate/mentor and one of my areas of specialty is at-risk youth. This is an umbrella that includes homelessness & housing instability, vulnerabilities to being taken advantage of, addiction, poverty, etc. The nature of my work requires us to bob and weave between different subcultures, and on the streets there is a kind of “anti-culture” of disenfranchised people. They pick up little things from many places and it gets harder and harder to speak well, “code switch” etc. There is a constant conflict/clash between polite-professional culture and street culture. This is a huge problem between the management/HR departments of youth orgs and the actual work. I was offered a job where everyone who talked to me loved me. I had an incredible conversation with my first interviewer, who praised me and led to me getting a job offer at another site. I can tell the original interviewer is…