Month: March 2022

This is an old story from my first job… Way back at the start of my career fresh out of high school. Keep in mind it was the first job I ever walked out on despite being raised to always give and work your 2 weeks notice. It was at a large office supply store, early 2010's. I joined under one gm, she was great, I made just over minimum and was going to be apart of their tech team after training, pay raise and new stuff, etc….I already had some certs from high school, would have been a nice college job. Well as it turns out she was too good, she got pulled to a struggling store and we got john….John was fresh out of corporate training….John brought over his chosen cashier (his secret gf) and John didn't approve of college. He ran the place into the ground, hired…

What kind of work do you do? What kind of benefits/perks are offered at your job? What does your job offer that other jobs don’t? I often see people on this subreddit talking about how they actually like their jobs, now is your time to shine. Tell us about it.

So we go to work to make money to pay bills and buy things, including gas, which we then use to turn around and do it all over again. Work, little money, bills/gas, work, little money, bills/gas…….what happens when those of us who can't work remotely can't afford gas anymore? It's now $40 to fill up my teeny tiny car…which I have to do every 3.5 days. That's about $80/week so $160/pay period…that's more than my utility bills combined….just to be able to pay my utility bills.

Alright, so I have 128 hrs of pto. But… because our small team doesn't have coverage, i can't take two straight weeks off. Not necessarily saying I'm entitled, but what the fuck? I had covid in January and burned some i.e. 40+, but as stated, still have the aforementioned 128 hrs. Who fucking advertises that much pto without playing out a consensutive actual vacation… first world problems I guess. So, as I normally take my 2 weeks in the first part of April, do I just fuck them over with the latter later on in our “busy season”? Fucking hell, I'm kind 'of legit ticked off. In what way do I counter this kind of culture is what I'm asking?

Every company/corporation nowadays it seems has their own language of acronyms, words, policies, etc. Whenever a group of people conquer another they always force their language on the conquered people. This is a subliminal form of submission. Understand the language to use it to your advantage but do not adopt it.

I’ll be going back to adult daycare at the end of the month. The boss reluctantly acquiesced to allow WFH two days a week. He doesn’t understand why people don’t want to spend the time, effort and money on childcare/commuting because “we all did it before”. He thinks everything should and will go back to the way it was pre-pandemic. I don’t understand why, if productivity doesn’t suffer, employers feel the need to force the drones back to the office. Sure, to monitor and control, but it’s deeper. Is it fear? Do we really have power as an organized workforce? There will be pouting at my adult daycare, and I don’t think it will just be the employees.