Month: February 2022

Hey yall, just wondering. Did any of you ever been able to flip the horrendous 80-20 of job/actual life, to the van life with remote work or passive income? How did tou go about building that lifestyle, from a work/revenue point of view (as I’m aware this is not a work alt sub, nor a vanlife sub lol) Cheers yall, and keep standing up for yourself in the work place!

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Is it just me, or does every news segment, report, and article on television, radio, and the internet that talks about The Great Resignation or r/antiwork seem like they completely get it wrong? I see some of their points, like people are trading crap jobs for different crap jobs, but it seems that they like to omit the part where a lot of us are tired of busting our asses for crap pay, crap benefits, working crap hours, for crap people and companies.

You likely all know this place as the “good store” when it comes to mainstream US department stores. I beg to differ. Ironically, they've just given us online “anti-racist” training this week while continuing to enable a racist, and have “Black History Month” merchandise for sale and decorations proudly proclaiming how much they value Black lives- and yet one of their employees has gotten away with being horrendously racist for an inexcusably long time. I refer to this corporation as red Walmart in the redactions below. An email sent recently from me to everyone VP of stores and lower in my region: Dear [RED WALMART] Team: Hello, I am team member [REDACTED], [ME], Guest Advocate, from [REDACTED RED WALMART STORE]. I am writing about an abysmal and hostile work environment at my store that I and many others are fed up with. One of our front end team members (49, Male,…

I wanted to reach out and thank this sub for the push to look for other opportunities. No matter how hard I pushed to make my company more money, and in turn, allow a raise for myself, the ones above me would screw it up one way or another. I finally got fed up as I'd asked for a raise a couple of months ago and put a deadline on it. Well, the deadline was Wednesday before last. I let my boss know that I'm less than a month from not being able to pay my bills as I'd burned through my savings and have been negative on my income/expense ratio for quite a while. I spruced up my resume and applied for 2 jobs Thursday night. By Friday AM, I had a callback from the job I really wanted. Scheduled my second interview for Friday afternoon. That went well…

Admin emailed me asking if I wanted to take training to become certified in something. I emailed back asking if since this was optional for my position if there would be a pay raise for taking on this additional responsibility. Direct Supervisor, who is mostly ok, got back to me and say hey the Head boss saw that as being combative. First off, admin people why are you gossiping about this to the Head boss. 2nd of all people making x2-x4 times what I make don't get to look down on me for asking about money. 3rd Head boss if you want combative, I'll show you combative. If you've got an issue with with me just come and tell me, don't gossip with everyone else about it. I hate it here so much, its really fucking with my mind.

I have Epilepsy. It only acts up when I am stressed to the max. Because of the condition, I only work 2 days a week. Coworker, who I do not know well, noticed I was absent from work. She does not know where I live and somehow got my address from someone else. She came to my door. I was in the ER. I have a Ring Camera so it is documented that she stood at my doorway ringing it nonstop. She texted me but I wasn't exactly responsive. She then went to the hospital (once again, I do not know how she knew I was there) and flat out lied to the front desk saying she is my sister and needs to see me NOW. I don't have a sister. I was very out of it but told nurses to tell any guests to leave. I have not been…

I can’t help but feel anything but anger toward this system. With Russia’s recent threats and having their nuclear arsenal set to high alert, the only thing I actually said out loud was “just do it already”. I know that’s a bit pessimistic but once I thought about it, I don’t care. Capitalism has made me a cold, bitter, miserable person. I’ve spent my entire life poor and hungry, living paycheck to paycheck with no wiggle room to enjoy the fruits of my labor. No time for vacations, days off to see the country, to relax, nothing. I can’t even take a day off to see the doctor when I’m sick or injured. I’ve worked my ass off for every blue collar job under the sun and it has gotten me nowhere. I make the most money I’ve ever made in my life at this point, and it’s still dogshit…