Month: April 2022

As background, in my Civics class we get given these packets once a month that talk about US politics and events and allow students to “vote” for what they agree with and see what's considered most popular in the next issue. (I forgot what they are called but I'm sure someone's heard of them) Anyways, one of the topics that was being discussed was the 4-day work week, which sounds cool, but when reading it one of the girls in my class commented 'a four day work week? what would you do when you weren't working?' It kinda worries me that some people don't think there's more to adult life than working, like have people ever heard of hobbies? I don't know…

So i worked for a year and a half at a gas station chain that was generally shit and included shit pay, which i would later find out was not even competitive pay at all compared to some other gas stations. About $12 per hour starting while a competing gas station next door offered $15 an hour for starting pay. Despite this, i still stayed at this place because i had awesome coworkers and an awesome GM and co manager i worked with. I didnt want to leave that and risk getting a job just as shitty but also have to work with shitty people and managers like in some of the posts i see here… so i stayed for quite a while. Everything was going just as normal until corporate decided they wanted to move our general manager to a completely different store. They told her this just one…

If you're good at your job, why work cheap? if there is an opportunity, take it. I'm sure there is someone somewhere who is doing the same job not as good as you and still getting paid better than you.

Previous Posts: https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/teg9nu/i_lost_my_leg_in_an_accident_at_work_and_today_i/ & https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/tf15vw/update_i_lost_my_leg_in_an_accident_at_work_and/ The links above will give more of a background on what has happened and I recently discovered some new information that has me literally trembling with anxiety and fear. After my accident my wife, boss, and his lawyer came up with an agreement when I was in the ICU. I would get to keep my healthcare, I’d get a set amount of money monthly, a secure office position when I came back to work and all “we” had to do was agree to wait for the company to do a full investigation that would be complete on or before March 14th 2022. If I hadn't posted here the first time I think I would still be sitting and waiting. I never thought to check OSHA because I thought my employer would be required to do that. The next day I got a lawyer and since…

The stock market is the source of the economic corruption that has created so many problems in the USA. The stock market is how companies amass ungodly sums of money. The stock market is how wealthy people are able to own all the large corporations and gain all the profits. The stock market is how politicians become multi millionaires. The stock market isn’t capitalism. It’s an exploitation of capitalism. It’s a system of semi exclusive socialism that exists within our economic system as a component of, but not the whole economy itself. It allows any individual with enough money to join in and enjoy the profits of large corporations. That’s the only barrier to entry. You need to have ‘enough money’. But how much is ‘enough money’? Well that depends. See if you are a regular nobody everyday person, realistically you are not going to do much better than maybe…