Month: March 2022

Not a fan of the phrase. but that's how I feel about Biden's statement on returning to work. Especially with gas prices how they are. Fuck traffic, fuck wasting hours of my life getting up earlier and getting home later, fuck allll the office bullshit. I want to be around my family having lunch with them not making small talk in a shitty cafeteria

All I do is play computer games and check sports score 9/10 of the time. The 1/10 I do hourly, sometimes ever few hour bathroom checks and it may need a quick 5-10 minute wipe down.

Remote work has proven to be just as efficient for many industries, yet we have people calling for a return to the office. Writers computer programmers graphic designer is, many people who do work on a computer, can pretty much do that same work from anywhere. This whole idea of returning to the office, I don't understand what's behind it, and I personally don't care. I think we should all be arguing for permanent remote work as an option for anyone who's not physically required to be there, like an auto mechanic or a carpenter. I'd like to know if there any organizations that are fighting for this.

Names have been changed. My husband, Matthew, is a mechanic. He was laid off three times in a row during 2020 (because of the pandemic). He found a full-time job in December 2020 and we were so excited for him to finally be getting back to work. The company seemed great at first. They offered him a fair starting wage, a raise after 6 months, and they promised to pay for his education as he was an apprentice. They encouraged him to grow with the company because they really liked him. After three months at the new job, we started to notice chunks of money missing from the paycheque. It turned out that Jeff, the manager, had signed us up for health benefits we never asked for nor consented to. (This was when I told Matthew to be careful because that’s a huge red flag). He returned the money and…