Juice is making the point that people tend to really, really downplay the role luck has in their success. You could have just as easily worked 10 hours a day, 6 days a week for 2 years, and been laid off. I busted my ass for a job that laid me off because my division head lied about my responsibilities to cover for…

Slavery is the word you are looking for. Forcing someone to work literally at gunpoint or face loss of liberty.

Not disagreeing, just adding to your point because it bears repeating: most military rape victims are men. Regardless, yes, of course you’re right.

Sally Wolff should speak to her employers about a percentage interest in the business. This is how start-ups are supposed to work. Yes, you work long hours and yes, you often don’t get paid what your worth. But that’s because you’re trying to start a business. In that situation, you will have two kinds of employees:…

The point isn’t that they’re getting paid a certain amount, the point is that in this environment there is excess pressure to work more hours (unpaid) in hopes of landing a full time gig with benefits. I wouldn’t believe that most people working through agencies would prefer an agency contract over a full time,…

There are so many dirty or unknowable HR people, and we do shit to inform workers of their rights. Too many people believe the Republican Party line of “you’re just lucky we hired you,” or “demanding pay hurts business growth.” It's just sad:(

Hahaha that’s cute. I didn’t “follow my dreams” to a profession that pays for shit and takes advantage at every turn. For many years I was a decently compensated writer and editor at a large newspaper that eventually laid off a shitton of people. Then that same newspaper stopped paying its freelance writers for the…

Annie*, 23, is a publishing assistant at a major book publishing house in New York who makes around $36,000 a year with overtime, and receives good benefits.

Right? That’s always the argument. And yet there are so many examples of small businesses that already pay their employees fairly and are extremely successful. If you can’t afford to pay your workers fairly, you don’t need to be in business.

I came here to say this exactly.

“As for the question of small businesses, “the fact of the matter is if the only way a business can succeed is by working someone at 60 hours a week for $25,000 a year, if the profit margin is that small, then that business has really big problems in and of itself,” she said. “That’s not the model we need to embrace…