Antiwork

Fell behind on the rent and can’t afford to pay it back. Landlord’s evicting me. I told some people at work, and they ended up passing it on to the managers. Their solution? Up my hours from 35 to 40. They said it was the best they could do for me. I am trying to figure out a solution here, but it’s not looking good.

I feel like I need to officially write this down because it's been plaguing me ever since it happened and I cannot find peace. I work in entertainment, and work at a large company where we have standard office hours. Occasionally we work whenever as work needs requires it, such as if there's a client event to cover at night or on the weekend. I am salaried, and I work hard to maintain a work-life balance as well as respectful boundaries with my job. I got married a few weeks ago. I took 2 weeks of PTO for the wedding (week of and the week after) and properly put in the PTO for it and my boss approved it. This was not a secret. It had been known by my job for the past year. I even had members of leadership reminding coworkers to not reach out to me or…

I’m not too knowledgeable in this area, but behaviorally, part-time seems like a way to not commit to employees too much and be able to throw them out easier.

Or are we going to do something about it?