Month: February 2022

“You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.” ― David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework TLDR: David Heinemeier Hansson and Yvon Chouinard are great rolemodels for living simply and balanced work, especially for entrepreneurs. I'm Scandinavian and come from a very different and balanced work culture incomparable to the US. First of all by just working a blue-collar job fulltime(37 hours pr week), you can live a high quality life and even save up enough to buy property in the countryside. So I do have a lot of advantages that most would find hard to recreate. I just wanted to tell you as a young entrepreneur and fulltime MA Student ranking up debt, I'm so happy for the life I'm living and continuously creating. I don't work crazy hours like most other entrepreneurs or people who work insanely much in order to save up for living free in a…

Is it better to quit your job or wait to be fired?

I work fast food, I'm a standard employee while we have more higher up employees call team leaders. Well one of the team leaders on my shift I think is Harassing me. Whenever I go on My lunch break I like to order breakfast, cause we serve it all day, however my team leader is the one on the grill and flat out refuses to make it for me (even if I already paid for it) and tells me I better order something else. He'll make breakfast for his friends but when I ask I'm apparently doing it just to be a pain. I just love breakfast but he whines so much I just get something simple like a chicken sandwich. I've also had comments about my weight and how I apparently I look “pregnant”, I find all the jokes about what I eat and my weight very rude. I'm…

Forewarning, this is a pretty long rant/post I originally wrote on a different platform, but it seemed like something that belonged here too so here is: “The Myth of Meritocracy” is kind of like the modern-day equivalent of “Divine Right”, used back during the days of monarchies and empires, and is another way extreme power and wealth inequalities between the rich/elite/aristocracy and the poor/middle/working class have been justified throughout history. 1521: “They deserve the power and wealth because God chose them to rule, if I follow according to their rule God will bless me too.” 2021: “They deserve the power and wealth because they just worked harder and smarter than all the rest of us, if I work smart enough and hard enough I can be rich too.” It's essentially the same idea, just rebranded to fit a modern-day capitalist organization of the economy. Centuries ago, the incredibly rich and…

Right?

Hello all, i'm currently experiencing a bullshit issue with my workplace. I work 3, 12 hour shifts. Fri Sat Sun. My job started hurting my wrists pretty bad because it's a very physical machine to load/unload. It was the day before I had to go back to work and I decided to get checked out because I knew I wouldn't be able to handle the next shift. Well the hospital said that xray was fine but that doesn't mean anything besides nothing is broken/fractured. They put me on light duty with a note stating “No heavy lifting or other strenuous activity until further instructed by an orthopedic doctor”. I called up my job and they said we might not be able to accomodate you, as we have 3 other people out with workplace injuries. (Do you not see a fucking pattern here?) Anyways. I said okay, what would you like…

I got diagnosed with pink eye by another doctor after i came back from vacation. I texted my boss (who is an MD by the way) and let her know my situation and that my eye was bugging the shit out of me. She straight up told me that i have allergies and have to take claritin. How the hell does that make any sense? I have documents proving that its pink eye. She told me that wants me to come in. I work in pediatrics and i don't wanna spread it to my coworkers and the patients.

I don’t know what the final starting wage will be because they are still talking about it but my close friend is a head kitchen manager at a nice restaurant- they were still hiring at $13 an hour, with established cooks who have been there for a while making up to $17 an hour. He has been struggling with kitchen staff shortages for months, call it years now, and just can’t keep up with the stress. Here’s the kicker – this manager friend used to be COMPLETELY against raising the minimum wage because “inflation”. Until his lead cook just went up to him the other day and said “I just got two job offers for $19 an hour and I’m going to have to take one of them if you can’t match what they offered”. My friend then practically hounded one of his bosses, finally convinced him that in order…

I recently got a job that is providing WAY more money to accommodate somewhat the increase cost of living. I haven’t put my 2 weeks in yet due to wanting to get confirmation on when my start date is, etc. and I feel as if my manager will ask where I’m going to. I am the type of person who overshares when put on the spot, and I don’t want them to know where I am going. How do I word it POLITELY if asked. Thanks so much!