(Minor spoiler warnings for The Umbrella Academy!) Would you love a job that took you to different locations? One where you could see not only many sights but many times? You’d get to meet fascinating people and you’d get to kill them. All in the service of a noble cause: Preserving world order and making…
At 144 pages, this little unassuming white book published by Princeton University might not seem it has a great deal of information. There’s also a bit of confusion about how much it cost, at least in my local area. While the MSRP of the book is set at 27.95, Rivier University in New Hampshire paid…
One of the biggest reasons Working as a book…um…works is because it’s so deliberately ordered by Terkel. Take this chapter for example. We went from a boss who was a pretty conventional and happy boss, to a slightly less conventional boss but one who still tried ruling and another who was tired of being a…
In 2016, management at the Conrad Miami hotel in Miami, Florida fired Marie Jean Pierre, an African-American woman, for not coming into work on Sundays. Pierre worked as a dishwasher at the hotel for several years. She requested to have Sundays off in 2009 due to her religious beliefs, saying that on those days, she…
Me and another moderator of the anti-work subreddit (come on in, the water’s not OK because of global warming!) saw an album posted a few months ago. The artist was excited to share it on the subreddit because the album (here) was full of anti-capitalist manifestos, as well as a few songs that decried work…
Although many of us would like to see the current exploitative capitalist system overturned tomorrow in favor of something more compassionate, more humane, the reality is that it’s going to take a lot of work for even the least noticeable change to occur. And then, if I’m being honest, the kind of revolutionary change that…
We started this year with Studs Terkel and we’re ending it with him! …I’m not sure how to feel about it. As much as I love the book I know the constant chapter reviews don’t get the views the other posts (like the terrific ones by Winter) do. On the other hand, I’d feel cheap…
Introduction: When Jobs Are Good, Actually I find it an interesting and rewarding challenge to write about people who enjoy their jobs. I’ve talked about the pros and cons of my recent job and there are certainly things I like about it. Being able to get so much love from animals is such a nice…
Unsafe Workplaces Christopher Nowinski was once a professional wrestler with a promising career ahead of him. After participating in a talent search show called Tough Enough, he began working for World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002. Much was made of his having graduated from Harvard University; he was a smart guy who was valued as a…
On the way back from Sorry to Bother You (directed and written by The Coup’s Boots Riley) a couple of my friends were discussing what made the film work. We all agreed that it was a movie we’d never seen before and unlike Black Panther (a terrific movie in its own right) it wasn’t just…