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Build your own plan

Choose a workplace you want to spend time in and a skill you want to work on. You get the workdays to walk through, the practice steps behind the skill, free tools and a clear next move. No grades. Real consequences.

Step 1 · Choose a workplace

Step 2 · Choose a skill

Your plan

Self-advocacy at Harrow Plain Packhouse

Saying what you need, want, don't understand or won't do — and choosing how.

Not the same as: Only complaining about unfair treatment. Asking for something to do is self-advocacy too.

Workdays to walk through

  1. Workday 01 · The Truck at Eleven

    Monday · 5:52 AM

    A crate of grade-outs is heading for the export box because the truck can't wait. Nobody asked you to look away. Nobody had to.

    Where self-advocacy shows up: Instructions to speed up grading conflict with the specification you were trained to follow.

  2. Workday 02 · Line Speed

    Tuesday · 5:40 PM

    Two new arrivals barely speak English, the belt doesn't slow down for anyone, and asking a question in front of the whole line feels harder than the work itself.

  3. Workday 03 · Your Initials on the Sheet

    Thursday · 9:15 AM

    Monday's load went out short and mislabeled, and the paperwork has your initials on it. Denise, Marisol and Walt each remember Monday a little differently.

Practice steps

These get harder as you go. Tick the ones you have actually done at work — nobody is grading this.

The same skill somewhere else

Manufacturing · Production line

Fenmore Line 4

Eleven Minutes

A sticking safety guard puts production pressure and your working conditions in tension.

Enter workday

Retail — home goods

Rise & Co. Homeware

The Return

An unusual return raises the question of when to ask a manager for guidance.

Enter workday