Technically, surfing Reddit during office time qualifies.
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It’s her first month as a manager so, let this be a good lesson to her about how to be a manager and how NOT to speak to people. And good luck explaining to corporate how you made one of the first employees at this startup quit because you want to run this place like McDonald’s. Peace out!!!
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We’ve been taught we must be consumers
This review of this book “The right to useful unemployment” is helpful for understanding Illich’s writing (a little heavy for me). I do believe training us to be consumers and to not believe in our abilities to take care of ourselves, that we must always turn to “experts”, is instrumental in keeping us trapped in cycles of want and poverty. https://www.workingnowandthen.com/scholarstudent/reviews/ivan-illich-the-right-to-useful-unemployment/#:~:text=In%20The%20Right%20to%20Useful%20Employment%2C%20Illich%20explores%20the%20problems,and%20abilities%20of%20average%20people.
I’ve seen a bunch of texts/ emails where people refer to their boss as “boss” or “sir”, I’ve never used these terms for anyone and it seems really creepy to me
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Wealth Inequality Comparison
Not saying that McDonald’s isn’t awful, but I do have a certain amount of faith in the Australia McDonalds. I’m from a relatively small town in Australia (about 75 thousand people), and we have 2 maccas stores, both owned by the same guy. Back in 2019, the man who owned them verbally assaulted his neighbour, an aboriginal man and an acclaimed artist, because they both live in the marina, which is an expensive area where we’re from. Maccas immediately fired him, revoking his franchisee rights and destroying his career. We all have a very negative view of our work, because most of this sub are Americans, but I just wanted to share what it’s like in Australia, where maccas is unionised, offers traineeships to its employees, pays a fair wage, and genuinely cares. This is what America could have, if McDonald’s there cared about their employees. Link: https://junkee.com/mcdonalds-mildura-fired-racist/234954
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Days off/ holiday
I have 25 days holiday plus a roll over of 5 days when March ends. If I was to quit my job which had a 4 week leave period, is there anything stopping me taking all my holiday before I leave? Essentially could I take off the whole 4 weeks if I wanted to before I left the company as long as it was approved?