Antiwork

Here's the situation, I've got my first internship job, which is something I've been chasing for months. I will start next week and I'm excited, one big benefit is that the work will be mainly remote. However, I also have a great opportunity to visit Italy in early March. I really want to travel and I'm open to work actively over there, but now I'm afraid to tell my supervisors about this opportunity and get completely rejected. Should I drop the internship at this point or should I inform my supervisors of my travel plans?

I saw the post about what we've learned at work and this came to mind. If there's something I really struggle to understand it's this. I feel like it is not just not recommended to be friendly – as in polite/kind -, but it puts you in danger. I had some awful experiences I still struggle to comprehend. What do people do with the random information you give?

There is a HUGE amount of confusion about what at-will employment means. If we are all going to be advocates for cultural change around work in the US, we need to better understand it. I've been a labor and employment lawyer (for workers and unions exclusively) for nearly three decades. THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, it is instead a discussion of legal doctrine that is only somewhat uniform across the 50 states. Applying this legal doctrine to a particular set of circumstances requires the services of a lawyer who actually knows your state's laws. A contract in US jursidprudence occurs when two parties agree to provide “mutual consideration” to each other as an exchange. “Mutual consideration” simply means both parties are getting SOMETHING out of the deal. If I promise “I'm gonna give you $10, just cuz” that is not a contract, becuase there is no mutual consideration. It becomes…

I work at a fast food chain. I’m going to use they/them pronouns to keep it as anonymous as possible. MY GM (general manager) is essentially my boss, and they’ve managed to give themselves thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s weekend off (Fri-sun). Now we only have two AMs (assistant managers), and we are supposed to have 2 managers at work at per day. So our AMs are being forced to work every holiday because my GM wants them off. I also heard that one of our AMs requested the New Years weekend off, but our GM decided to deny it so they could take it off instead. For outside context, the GM almost never opens, closes, or covers for people, they makes the AMs cover. The GM also doesn’t work weekends very often (maybe once or twice a month), even though in our chain managers are only supposed to…