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Retail Workers
November 23, 2022
Timothy Noah
Black Friday May Be Dying, but Retail Workers Are Still Getting Assaulted
Life at the economy’s bottom-most rung is no fun. When you go holiday shopping, please be patient and kind.
January 6, 2021
Colette Shade
Crying at Work Isn’t the Answer
Rather than focus on normalizing weeping on the job, why not just make jobs suck less?
January 4, 2021
Katie McDonough
The Long Plot to Escape From Work
In the face of a nonexistent safety net and bleak future prospects, the F.I.R.E movement and other individualized paths to financial mastery offer a specific brand of fantasy.
November 20, 2020
J.C. Pan
Hazard Pay Was Just a Brand Exercise
Covid-19 cases are surging, but enhanced compensation for frontline workers has all but dried up. Giants like Walmart and Amazon got the reputation bump; now they’ve moved on.
December 22, 1941
Magazine
Shirley Jackson
My Life With R.H. Macy
Shirley Jackson's short stint with the department store
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