Month: April 2022

Over at r/place the canvas is live. Let's make a show of force, coordinate our efforts into the lower right hand corner and put up a nice big antiwork sign. We still have time!

[I don't mean to rant, but…] I've finally had time to calm myself over the whole situation. I started at a private machining company over a year ago, and I do tool and die grinding [this trade is currently experience a shortage of workers and an age gap (especially with grinders)]. This shop has around 50 to 70 people, about a 25% of them are due to retire in the next 10 years. We get pretty crazy parts at this company, I have to set up all my parts on machines, hold .0001+ tolerances, and maintain a working relationship those around me. I do consider myself a pretty good tool maker (over 5 years in the trade), still actively apply myself each day, ask important questions about parts, machining methods, and other generally “good questions”. Most coworkers at this company are very respectful and we do get along very well,…

My industry is small and I am still waiting to here back from interviews so I have to be vague. I got hired to a new-to-me industry after burning out and being unhappy with my prior career. I am starting off this new career literally at rock bottom doing hourly work that involves minimal intelligence (literally a glorified janitor except I clean pee and exam rooms) whereas before if a coworker wanted a half-hour of my time for my input they would need to schedule a meeting. My current job is generally decent since I get required experience hours while still having the flexibility to attend college full-time since I have to fulfill some classes before I can apply for advanced degree schools. I fucking zen while cleaning. However some way or another I became expected to do more and more tasks outside of my job description because I pick…

I guess I did a lot of it to myself. To an extent. I'm one of those people who just doesn't like standing around if I see work to be done. Nothing against those of you who do, more power to you. I'm just thankful now I work for a company who gave me an 8% raise out of nowhere, and gave me a contract saying it has no bearing on the two other raises I'm getting in about a month. But my last job? I worked for a big box store, backed by a large chain department store. Think the title gives away which one. I ended up doing about 90% of the work myself, team lead always got pulled for another department and the only other person worth a damn in the department only worked nights. But, to an extent I enjoyed it. I didn't like when we…

It’s 1:30am, and I can’t sleep because my throat is on fire. But I don’t have anyone that can cover me tomorrow and I’d get lambasted for missing work. I’m a vendor, and I service one store, and I don’t even work that much because I’m unable to get a CPAP machine so I spend a lot of time sleeping. I don’t really have a coherent point because I’m exhausted and in pain. I just wish I could go to sleep and wake up and not have to go to work.

You knee yourself in the face

I am tired of subsidizing large businesses that pay the shareholders then give employees no choice but public assistance to survive. They refuse to pay a living wage or provide a healthcare plan or 401k but payout billions every quarter to Wall Street, the shareholders are then taxed at 14%. A wage earner making less than $40,525 is taxed at 12%. It's an outrage that someone who can afford to invest in dividend stocks, make millions or billions every quarter escapes taxation because of capital gains. They make their money on the backs of an impoverished workforce and get a tax break. Then dump the burden of public assistance and the national debt on the middle class and poor taxpayers. We should make exceptions for small to medium sized businesses, but the worst of these large corporations should broken up with antitrust suits. Congress then needs to raise the capital…