Antiwork

Hi.ive worked in a school as a teacher in Italy for 3 years.its been fun but incredibly taxing and hard work and they have really taken advantage of me because I am foreign and my Italian is not perfect.it does not impede my ability to do my job and they have been happy to work me for the last 3 years without payment.the first year I had agreed to it but after that it became a waiting game for them to give me a proper schedule now it's obvious they are taking advantage of me. in the last year I am upset because it feels endless.they have hired new teachers who they pay properly and say it's because they 'speak italian' but of course it's better than mine they are from here. So anyway I finally got them to agree to give me proper classes under the impression it was…

Idk if this is the right place to post this, but I'm feeling hella things and I want to get them off my chest somewhere. I work as a server at a small, mom-and-pop (or more accurately, mom-and-son-and-brother-and-niece-and-occasionally-other-brother) type restaurant. I've been here for six months. The restaurant is beautiful on the inside, I like the people I work with, and the food is delicious. Everything else fucking sucks. My boss has been late on my checks several times, and once my check even bounced. The environment isn't very good, and it's a very casual place- so casual, in fact, that some regular customers have threatened to beat me up (playfully, of course), cursed me out (but I still eat there all the time!), and been creeps on many occasions, and it's just normal. For context, I'm an 18 year old dude. I'm also expected to do three jobs at…

Granted, I know there are a lot of shithead managers out there, but we can’t forget managers are a part of the working class too – likely part of the same group of people complaining about them here. As far as managers go, they have worked enough years to consider taking a managerial position so they can finally take out a car loan or – if they’re lucky – a mortgage. For me as a manager, I feel most phoney when I can’t explicitly talk to my staff about how rotten capitalism is. How stupid I think restaurants are. I can’t talk to them about how over-worked and under-guided we are as managers. How terrible it makes me feel to ask of them things that may put them at odds with what they truly believe in. But guess what (and this might be the old school part of me -…