Month: March 2022

According to local laws, landlords have to signify rent increases by either priority mail or hand to hand with signatures. I live in a « used to be poor » neighbourhood and my landlord is lazy, only fixes bare minimum (he fixed the balcony when they were big holes in them, had water damage in the stairs for months, etc), so he simply puts the papers in the door frame without even knocking. Considering he also raises the rent 2-3 times the legal raises, and that I refused some because of it and he never does a second tentative being lazy (or having too many buildings, it’s one of those numbered company’s with dozens of buildings) so when I realized at 4 am all the papers we’re in the door of half the tenants, I removed the papers in the doors. Leases renew automatically here. So unless someone inquires to him directly…

Today I was fired from my remote supervisory position at a call center. I really didn’t care about my job or the company, but it was an easy position for $18/hr. My workload only took up about an hour of my 6 hour shift and I could essentially do whatever I pleased the rest of the day. For months now the company has been outsourcing customer service and tech support roles to the Philippines. Instead of having to pay the American employees $15/hr, they can get away with paying the Filipinos around $5/hr. I reckon they realized my position could be just as easily filled through outsourcing, knocking yet another wage from $18/hr to $5/hr, all for the CEO’s bottom dollar. I know this happens with most major companies, but it was the first time I experienced it first hand. Getting fired is not what bugs me. Even outsourcing itself…

So I was interviewing for the role of merchandising assistant store manager at Lowe’s. The recruiter told me it’s $65k annually (salaried) plus 30% bonus paid out in two installments every year. Decent pay for retail management, I have the experience, I hate my current job, why not! Anyway, we are about halfway through the Teams virtual interview and the General Manager says: “This is a 24/7/365 job. You are salaried. You are expected to crawl out of bed if you’re sick and show up anyway. If you have to do office work or something then so be it but you don’t have the luxury of calling out sick when you’re a manager. If you aren’t here, no one can cover for you. The expectation for this position is zero time missed no matter what unless it’s an approved vacation. Are you okay with these expectations?” I was pretty flabbergasted…

I’m quiting my job next week and I need a good way to end it because I am not giving my two week notice. Any advice on how to say it the right way?

Honestly, this is just a rant and I don’t even know if it belongs here. I have an OK job making $23/hr and it’s still not enough. Im done working tirelessly to just have a roof over my head. It would be seemingly easy to crash the housing market. If we could form a housing union in larger cities and decide to lockout ridiculous rent payments, it would destroy the market and make national news… “Millennials and those alike refuse to pay rent that costs twice as much as a mortgage”. So do they evict us by the thousands? Or does rent go back down to a reasonable price? Nobody should have to pay $1600/mo for an apartment in a city that’s barely on the map. I know this is flawed and unlikely, but a man can dream right?

So roughly 10 years ago I was working for this small family owned business that was so incredibly stingy and toxic. I have multiple stories about these effers. The story I’m thinking about in particular is when a coworker got into an accident and totaled her car. She was fine, but was lacking in transportation. So she and her family cooked barbecue and was selling by the plate, and the boss bought a few plates for himself and his family. Skip to a month or two later. And the boss asks her to stay late for some overtime and for whatever reason she doesn’t want to. Now personally unless I have plans I don’t mind staying late, especially if I get paid overtime and don’t have plans; however she didn’t want to. The effer boss throws the fact he bought those measly plates of barbecue in her face and she…

I'm going for clinical mental health counseling (CMHC) license in IL. I acknowledge I'm in a privileged position. But I still hate it They charge for undergrad They charge for grad school (which is really just jobs training you have to pay to get) Pay for testing (including a multiple choice test on freuds old dumb theories about the phallic stage of life). Complete BS by the monopolist testing company Pearson. A paper test doesnt prove to anyone I can counsel Then you have to get 700 hours as an intern. But for the first semester only 100 max can count. I had over 400 but only 100 count. Who can afford to work 9-12 months for free while likely being in massive debt already? And then the industry is completely captured by insurance companies. No diagnosis, no coverage. And only certain diagnoses are covered. The diagnoses themselves are often…

Anyone else look at American society and infrastructure and just frustrated at how much they waste? Look at cars thanks to car companies lobbying against public transportation the only real option you have is to buy a 2 ton vehicle even if your only use for it is get to work and back and then thrown in the scrap heap. Thats 2 tons of metal, plastic, electronics, and rubber that could have been used for much more beneficial purposes not to mention the oil and gas used. A train or a bus could transport close to a thousand people a day much quicker. Food. Most restraunts and grocery stores would rather see their expired food burn then let somebody have food they didnt pay for. Its not like they will be sued if they give it out the 1996 good samaritan food donation act made sure of that. Dont get…