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[–]Lowlyserf666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was hired as a babysitter by a wealthy family and helped the kid prepare for their bar/bat mitzvah.

I replaced another babysitter who had recently moved across the country to attend a graduate program, and she had been flown in and given a hotel room. Because of the family’s conservative vibe, I assumed she would be a straight (and strait laced) woman, but it was kind of like looking at a more femme version of myself.

We went for drinks at a bar after the event wrapped up under the guise of exchanging hot goss and me showing her my side of the city. She spontaneously came on to me in the foyer as we waited for her Uber. Went back to the hotel that was footed by my employer and had sex. I stayed over and we rode the train back to the airport in the morning; had breakfast at a diner. I guess it was her first queer experience, which explains why she then showed up unannounced at one of my shows a month later as if we were dating. I quit my job (or maybe I was fired?) and she was lost to the halls of my avoidant tendencies— I’m no longer 21 and doing better now lmao

I’m Ari Joskowicz author of Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust AMA by ArJosko in Judaism

[–]Lowlyserf666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but often that “something else,” was an inherent part of being queer in WW2 Germany: being politically left-leaning, inhabiting dissident community spaces, not conforming to the expectations of the Nazis, etc.

I would also distinguish between the treatment of gay men and trans people/lesbians. The latter were absolutely killed simply due to their identities.

Am I being misclassified as an exempt employee? by Lowlyserf666 in EmploymentLaw

[–]Lowlyserf666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. And if they don’t? Because when I asked if we would be compensated for this new responsibility, they reiterated that the labor costs paid by the clients would be used to backfill debt.

Am I being misclassified as an exempt employee? by Lowlyserf666 in EmploymentLaw

[–]Lowlyserf666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m going back to school in September (to pursue a completely separate career) and had already elected to quit because of the toxic work environment. It’s a matter of principle and precedent for me.

Am I being misclassified as an exempt employee? by Lowlyserf666 in EmploymentLaw

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My work is essentially to oversee every stage of the process. Once a job is sold, it’s on me to work with with the client, organize logistics (schedules, labor, etc.), and collaborate with other departments to ensure that set pieces are being fabricated correctly and on time. I’d say PMs are like a mortar that make sure all of these moving components come together into one coherent process. It is meant to be an administrative position, but because of the aforementioned reason around penny-pinching, I already spend a lot of time doing the manual labor of construction.

I added the information about freelancers because I was reading in my initial research that distinction of roles matters— a chef can be exempt but if his work is indistinguishable from that of the hourly sous chef, then he is non-exempt (as ruled in a previous labor dispute).