Month: March 2022

Today I spent most of my day spiraling with what I’m almost certain is overthinking. About eight months ago I took on a role that I for sure knew I would excel in, however, it quickly became the most crippling job in my life. It was as if someone had wiped my brain clean and I lied my way into the door. I lived in a constant loop of guilt paralysis. Guilty for the mess I had inherited. Blaming myself for not being able to understand the convoluted processes that were implemented well before me. The expectations that maybe I had put on myself were seriously crippling. Everyday, I lived in a cycle of boredom. Where I would just disconnect and go off in a daze rather than force myself to continue this never ending cycle of boring task. Since starting this job, my creativity had literally been zapped. I…

So I have a really good job. Ngl worked my ass of after graduation to find something. Many of my classmates who graduated a year ago are still unemployed. It’s six figures and my industry is in the shitter so jobs are v competitive. I don’t have a competitive GPA or internship experience, so got lucky. Anyways, the thing is, have ALWAYS wanted to take time off after school to reset and get healthy (school was v hard for me). Then this happened and feel guilty/scared of what’s going to happen if I leave. Need to pay bills and don’t have an apartment, car, or anything. But want to take a year off to fix my fucked up sleep schedule and severe depression. Keeping an 8-5 is so damn hard bc only sleep a few hrs a night. It’s already making my physical and mental health so much worse. But…

Finally putting my 2 weeks in and leaving a toxic work environment, I’m really sad because I did like the company just not the center I worked at, my boss was every toxic to everyone there, by not letting people have time off for death in the family, emergency from family or coworker themselves, by refusing to take doctors notes and scaring people from every taking a day off from sickness/mental health issues, I was the only person who was willing to stand up to her in return she prevented me from making money at my job, to write ups from me having issues with that with her, her refusal of giving me copy’s of them on top of it, so the last straw was a verbal warning, to the point another employee got involved talked down to me after forcing me to sigh…. Then re continued the conversation the…

…and the working class is asked to fight for “their” country…what are they going to tell us we are fighting for? I've gotten nothing from this country I want tol fight for, they can burn this fucker down.

Soon, I enter state supervised mediation with a former employer. The case is dual filed as the situation evolved on a federal installation. This state meets certain criteria, so the U.S DOL is allowing the state to handle it. I do retain the right to appeal to the U.S. DOL. The mediation is a zoom call. I was asked for documents, position statements, and the charging document. I have already been informed I have gained the right to bring lawsuit into a court of law. The situation is quite serious as it pertains to harassment and retaliation due to a OSHA report and a separate and unrelated workman's compensation. There were threats made, and these threats came to pass, an arrest was made, and this resolved in local court. The company I believe had been slandering me throughout their business network denying me any relevant positions for a number of…

That's it really. Maybe an opinion, but it's a thought I'd like to hear people's thoughts on. Work from home (WFH) shakes up the system to it's core. It makes the established work norms of centralized locations under the oppressive eye of management irrelevant, which makes office spaces irrelevant, which makes intentional housing inequality irrelevant. Work from home has the potential to be more revolutionary than any political party could ever claim to be and it is something the working class has the potential to take into their own hands to achieve. What are your thoughts and opinions?

Long one, tl;dr at bottom. I was DJing for a fairly big night club in my city a few years ago. I had started during one of their slower nights, proven I made people show up and get on the floor, and after their main DJ got himself fired for basically having an empty main dance floor and for making threats towards the manager when they asked him to play different types of music to make people dance, I was asked to take over that night. It started off as being a lot of fun, having a “guaranteed” packed club definitely made it rewarding from a creative stand point, the patrons seemed to really enjoy what I was playing and my dance floor was full throughout much of the nights I played. Having one night a week that was really busy felt like a bit of a waste, so I…

Applied for an internal vacancy that I'm already trained for and have proven I can do by covering other people in the department got passed over because I'm not as chatty as the other person who interviewed who has no training or experience… not to mention the job is literally being by yourself in a locked office because its handling large amounts of money so chattiness has 0 impact. So disappointed.

My 1st job was Baskin Robbins at age 17, making $8.50 hourly….. Now, I'm 28, and I work in manufacturing as a sanitor, making $25 hourly. I have no college degree and never pursued any type of schooling after high school.