Antiwork

I specifically looked up “Worker Reviews” to find a place where workers can honestly talk about any issues they have with a company. Seemed like a small but important way for workers to have power against their bosses: If a company treats its workers like shit, they can review bomb them and deny them future employees. What I found was glassdoor. It honestly seemed good in the beginning: It immediately let me look up a place of work, so I chose to look up where I work out of curiosity and then let me check its reviews. I read about 2 reviews, then it blocked me from all content. It asked me to log in with Google, Facebook, or Apple. So they're harvesting the data. Not a good sign for a place that should be serving workers. I sign in anyways, using Google because I don't want to go through…

Yesterday I went to an interview at a Skyzone (one of those trampoline park things). They seemed to be pretty urgently hiring as they had open interviews basically everyday and I was seeing ads everywhere for it. I had to fill out an online form first and was immediately met with a red flag. One of the required questions was “What will your mode of transportation be?” Now, while this isn’t asking someone directly if they have a car, unless they are looking for someone to park their car on a trampoline inside, I can’t see how this information would be relevant. I simply answered that I had reliable transportation. I then went to the location for the open interview. One of the workers saw me walk in with my resume and they correctly assumed I was there to interview. They directed me to a small row of bleachers for…