Month: March 2022

If work in the US was strictly about selling services/skills in exchange for money, we would regain some of the much needed ownership over our lives. People could move between companies and positions, take breaks between employment, decide to work part-time, etc. We wouldn't have to rely on the good grace of billionaires and their politicians to offer us limited time off to tend to ourselves and our families. Unfortunately, we are forced to work so that we could afford the healthcare we need to mitigate the stress from being enslaved to our work so that we could afford the healthcare we need to mitigate the stress from being enslaved to our work so that we could afford the healthcare we need………. I'm not sharing anything new that you haven't known before, but I believe this is the primary common issue we need to be organizing around. Do you think…

Work ethic is used by corporations to trick us into thinking that we are lazy piles of shit if we don’t “go above and beyond” for our job. It’s their way of subjecting you to abuse and then criticizing you for not meeting a ridiculous standard.

And I hate they're asking me to send the letters. I am legitimately being made the 'bad guy' because managers want people in office, sometimes for decent reasons but these employees have been out of the office for 2 years and we made it work so you know, we can keep making it work! But no, apparently managers have complaints that they didn't document but they think being in office would solve so, hey, f your medical concerns HR say you have to return! So I'm fielding these calls from employees who are (legitimately!) upset because “what do you mean I haven't been doing 100% of my job, my managers never said anything before!” and “what do you mean I have to be in office to train, I've trained over the phone before and you just gave that employee a raise!” At least the people who actually want employees in…

Now I know a good lot of you guys would back me up automatically, but for the chaditalists, with their firm grip on effort=money, I shall elaborate. The system of tipping was integrated so food service business owners could employ workers, despite not having enough money. Now it's a staple for any service where someone performs for you. Be it serving, bellhopping, or moving items. These workers could easily excel, warranting a tip. However, the fact it is expected for working to expectations defeats the original intent of the tip. The extra dough is for those who go above and beyond. Being paid for your work is your boss's job. Don't add extra fees on the customer, then blame your employees attitude for not having enough. Would food be more expensive? Yes, but you wouldn't be told to pay extra for the poor guy, and he's not such a poor…

I have been physically and mentally abused by a manager at the target store I work at. She has hit me with railings, thrown my work on the floor, and retaliated against me after submitting reports to HR. HR has done nothing and are deliberately sabotaging the process for workman’s comp. For example I will call out and she won’t answer the phone, so when I return the next day she’ll call me a liar and claim I didn’t call out. She is deliberately trying to instigate situations and HR isn’t attempting to fix the situation. I also have a pre existing medical condition that has become worse due to her abuse.

I was part time last year: slept well. Went full time this year: sleeping like crap, awake earlier and earlier, now my routine is awake at 3am. Got covid and isolating for a week: realised this morning I haven't woken up at 3am once during isolation. I'm not sure why working makes me not sleep well. But it causes me to be a sleep deprived, sad, lethargic bag of flesh. I'm not sure what I'm meant to do about it.

This is a dumb post to say that I'm tired and sick of paying my co-pays for my medications, when the main reason I take them is so that I can go to school and work, to make the money that is eaten up by paying for my medications. I have chronic migraines. They aren't as bad as some of the tales I've heard, but they are severe – minor ones cause confusion. Major ones are so painful I vomit. Confusion may not sound bad enough to justify pricy meds, so an example: During even minor migraines, I am not supposed to drive. I have gone through intersections feeling odd only to realize that the weird niggling was because the light was red. “Why was the light red?” Then in clicks that I've run a stop light, a full minute afterwards. Sometimes I can't even tell if they're migraines or…

I was previously working a very rigorous warehouse job that was destroying my health. I made over $57,000 a year plus generous benefits. I felt rich some weeks. I could buy nicer food at the grocery store, I could more easily indulge in my hobbies monetarily (though not physically or emotionally…), if something was wrong with the car I could go get it fixed without worrying about it, I could invest in nice new clothes and home goods instead of buying everything from thrift stores, and I started going to school again and work was paying all my tuition. But my repetitive stress injuries were killing me. Despite a year of occupational therapy and another year of physical therapy, I couldn't keep up. I was in physical pain every day, and even simple tasks like brushing my teeth or driving were painful. I saw a neurologist who said I couldn't…