Interns are just free labor right? #interns #intern #freelabor #badboss #badleader #workfail #workmeme #funnyworkmeme #work #workday
December 6, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Interns are just free labor right? #interns #intern #freelabor #badboss #badleader #workfail #workmeme #funnyworkmeme #work #workday
My book is available for pre-order! Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
My Book is Available for Pre-order!
You can order it from UC Press, on Amazon, or through Barnes & Noble!
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April 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My book is available for pre-order! Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My latests on why a baby bonus won't fix a broken economy & hurts men in the process open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
How Pro-Birth Politics are Likely to Backfire on Men
Conservative pro-birth policies promote traditional family roles while ignoring the economic realities most families face—ultimately hurting the very base they claim to support.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My latests on why a baby bonus won't fix a broken economy & hurts men in the process open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
Findings from my recent ASA presentation in Chicago. Would love to hear feedback! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
“We Don’t All Have the Same 24 Hours”: How Temporal Privilege Keeps Inequality Hidden
There’s much talk of time divides, but inequality isn’t just about hours on the clock. It’s about the friction in our days.
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September 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Findings from my recent ASA presentation in Chicago. Would love to hear feedback! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
Work Fail Confession: Today, I emailed a vendor asking them to fix a typo on their invoice… only to realize I made a glaring typo in the email asking for the typo to be fixed. At least we had a good laugh. 🙃😀🤣
Anyone else have a day like this? #workfail #typo #corporatelife
Anyone else have a day like this? #workfail #typo #corporatelife
January 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Work Fail Confession: Today, I emailed a vendor asking them to fix a typo on their invoice… only to realize I made a glaring typo in the email asking for the typo to be fixed. At least we had a good laugh. 🙃😀🤣
Anyone else have a day like this? #workfail #typo #corporatelife
Anyone else have a day like this? #workfail #typo #corporatelife
⁉️ If you take a sick day on an in-office day when you work remotely two days a week, should you have to make up that day by coming into the office on a remote day?
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a sick day, or is that just this bee? Queen Bee told me I had to ...
#work #workfail #workday
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a sick day, or is that just this bee? Queen Bee told me I had to ...
#work #workfail #workday
December 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM
My latest Work Fails post looks at how “fighting fires” became the new trust fall, and why crisis feels so meaningful even when it burns us out
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Communions of Crisis: How “Fighting Fires” at Work Has Become the New Trust Fall
Workplace crises don’t just test our strength. They sustain the very systems that exploit it, turning teamwork into dependency, chaos into culture, and suffering into proof of loyalty.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
My latest Work Fails post looks at how “fighting fires” became the new trust fall, and why crisis feels so meaningful even when it burns us out
open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
Personal relationships can't fix structural problems.Yet American work culture expects interpersonal trust to solve what policies should address.New piece on why this 'workplace trust fallacy' is failing us all: open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
The Great Workplace Trust Fallacy
American workers have become experts at covering for each other when labor systems fail them, but this interpersonal trust is functioning as an unpaid safety net that's bound to collapse.
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June 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Personal relationships can't fix structural problems.Yet American work culture expects interpersonal trust to solve what policies should address.New piece on why this 'workplace trust fallacy' is failing us all: open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
This was more than venting. It was an act of moral repair. These testimonies pushed back vs the logic that says hardship is just part of the job. Instead, drivers named suffering as a structural failure. They refused to dignify dysfunction -my latest from Work Fails open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
When Visibility Becomes Power: Lessons from NYC Ride-Hail Drivers
Workplace visibility is a risky proposition. But when paired with worker solidarity, it can become a powerful resource.
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May 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This was more than venting. It was an act of moral repair. These testimonies pushed back vs the logic that says hardship is just part of the job. Instead, drivers named suffering as a structural failure. They refused to dignify dysfunction -my latest from Work Fails open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
Wow 3pm and I am just now getting to look at what I thought I would be working on today... #somethingsnotrighthere #workfail
November 18, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Wow 3pm and I am just now getting to look at what I thought I would be working on today... #somethingsnotrighthere #workfail
#CuttingTreesGoneWrong #TreeFails #LumberjackFails #ChainsawChaos #EpicFails #NatureStrikesBack #InstantRegret #FailReels #GoneWrongCompilation #FunnyFails #ViralReels #ReelFails #ExplorePage #FYPFail #TreeCuttingGoneWrong #WorkFail #DangerZone #WaitForItMoments #TimberTrouble #OutdoorFails
July 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Well. That was an obnoxious waste of my time. #technologyfail #workfail
November 18, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Well. That was an obnoxious waste of my time. #technologyfail #workfail