Before we get started on today’s entry I want to announce that I’ve moved from my previous residence to a temporary place. It has superior internet but it also has rent to pay and other various costs that I’ll now have to deal with. Given this I’ll likely be employed sometime in the next few…
The title is actually a line I say (or something close to it anyways) when I’m at work. The computer I use to deal with sales, the lottery machine I use, the safe I use to keep the money in, etc. They all invariably break down, make a mistake or sometimes (but of course only…
(Originally published here) Iain Levison’s A Working Stiff Manifesto (2002) reads like a less political and more sardonic version of Barbara Ehrenreich’s tale of the working poor in America, Nickel and Dimed. The subtitle, A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine that Fired me, and Three I Can’t Remember means that Levison gives a…
Levison is starting to unload the truck when he figures out that he was most likely hired because he is over six feet all and is able to lift things fairly easily. Or maybe it’s because the company is/was desperate. Or maybe it’s because they needed a more obedient worker. The fact that Levison keeps…