Month: March 2022

Once companies are truly comfortable with permanent remote work, it is just a short hop to start outsourcing those jobs to cheap-labor countries. This was going to happen anyway, but the pandemic has sped it up by many years. What happened with blue collar jobs is going to happen with white collar jobs. It is so much cheaper and easier to move a remote work white collar job than it was to move a factory. Get ready for the change individually, and fight against the change collectively.

I've seen too many posts here complaining about streamers, OF users, and whatever else. We're not the problem because we break back for our money too. It's not easy to entertain enough to turn a profit. The problem is the monsters hoarding 6 or 7 or 8 figures of wealth off of the backs of people at our level. The problem is the legislators who let this world become this way. We're on the same page as you even if a different part of it. Me? I'm a warehouse worker. I'm a repair tech for Ashley Furniture trying to get at least a foothold of a career online. I've done and do both. I turn no profit from streaming and I know I won't until I have at least a few hundred or thousand people interested. I am not the problem. Gonna leave this if anyone wants to support. Twitch.tv/LordBlackOpal

Prior to covid, my husband was a happy-go-lucky dude. Woke up singing. Always laughing and making jokes. After covid hit, and he had a couple months off work, he realized how much he hates working. He started thinking about the big, corporate picture for the first time. Thoughts like “why does the average quality of life get worse over time, when new technologies should have made life easier & the cost of living cheaper”, “Elite corporate greed has stolen the right to live from everyone, enslaving us”, and “It's depressing going to work just to afford a home & a car to get me back to work”, etc. Now these are thoughts I've had since I was about 13. I always thought the rat race was bs, and society is run by selfish assholes. But it's the society we live in. I don't think we should get extremely depressed over…

Why does it seem like you have to make friends with everyone at work anymore these days? Why isn’t it enough that I am reliable, do my work efficiently, I am professional, and polite? My last job I got let go from because of “personality conflicts.” When actually I just didn’t put the company on a pedestal like they did themselves. A few of my co-workers bullied me. Their “training” was actually more like hazing. So I just kept to myself, did my work, was cordial and professional. Yet, I kept everyone at arm’s length. I was there to do a job, but I guess they wanted more. Just doing the job I was hired to do wasn’t enough. I didn’t want to jump right into the social culture. I wasn’t interested in making friends with any of them. I stood up for myself when I was pushed around. So,…