Month: April 2022

I'm just so frustrated and mad and feel so fucking helpless right now. I graduated college recently and have been on the hunt for a job that pays decently. 20+ has been my minimum which may be a lot to ask for someone with no professional experience (several years in retail as I worked my way through college) but a man's gotta eat and I want to start my career on a good foot. It's been hell on earth. Applying to so many jobs, and getting back those same damn rejection emails time and time again. Until finally, I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I do a weeks worth of research on this company before the first and second interview and they couldn't have gone better. I walk out of there so confident that this will finally be the start and I can stop my ramen…

I mean honestly we have to go through all this redundant paper work deal with automated answering machine mazes, and they take all this money from us for what? Anyone? They’re pockets of course! The roads where I live have potholes every 50 ft, the insurance car and health is through the roof, and the cost of rent and housing is insane, they think this is LA or something believe me it’s far from it, hell practically 4 months out of every year it’s so cold you can’t go outside without 8 layers so why the fuck do I have to pay through the nose in taxes and rent to live here? Imagine our taxes actually going towards us? Actually helping people? I know it’s just a silly dream

Small Rant on mobile Background: I got a job at a nonprofit, I really enjoy the mission and what we do educational wise. Though we have been constantly fighting to raise the wages – you start at $10 and in 6 months you get a raise to $13 (and yes this place “prefers” degrees – of which I have two that directly correlates to the position). That being said this is my second part time job, the other is retail for $15/hr, and I’ve been keeping my eye out for higher paying nonprofit positions. I finally found one that I managed to get an offer from for $16 and I gladly accepted. Though now I am working 6 days a week at about 55hrs. Knowing myself as an autistic/adhd person, this is simply not sustainable and I will have meltdowns more often, trying to avoid that and have at least…

I woke up at around 10 am, ate some breakfast, showered, put on a netflix show (binging the blacklist rn) Then I ate some lunch, did a little bit of work and went for a walk. Got home and about to make dinner soon. What did you guys do today? 🙂

got hired by a smaller reno company as a working Estimator / PM. overhauled their estimating capabilities with spreadsheets and programs that I had created / curated at my last position (bigger civil company) and was told to upload them to a cloud, which I figured was fine but also kind of knew he was going to use himself. last week I asked to work in the field to work with the guys and see how well they did timewise (to be able to tighten up our bids) and today, 9am, was given a check for my time owing (one week + vacation and whatever else). I said fine but I needed him to delete my proprietary docs from his cloud, which he laughed at and told me to leave. got home and checked to see if I can still log in to the cloud to delete it all, obviously…

I work 12 hour shifts at a warehouse and yesterday my back started hurting like crazy and it's just worse today. This is my third injury in my 7 months there (I sprained wrist twice before this), and they're of course placing all the blame on me for being hurt. I've had a few too many call-outs already and now I'm unable to work for sure. I called in late today, and idk how things are going to go when I finally get to work. They treat people with injuries like liars and find any avenue to remove the blame from themselves. The prod expectations are super high, and I mean it's warehouse work, a lot of heavy lifting in a fast-paced setting. No shit my back is blown out, maybe if I were allowed to work at a slower and steadier pace I wouldn't be hurting myself trying to…

So, I used to work at a nice golf club, making actually very decent money. I worked with my fiance, and even two of her friends. The job is seasonally April-December. My boss, was extremely racist, sexist and angry all of the time. He hated everyone there. The guests, the employees. He was always annoyed. I was the only male staff and the rest were women. He would tell racist jokes or make remarks right behind the guests backs when they annoyed him. Or just say some incredibly sexist things all the time. I was the only male employee, and he had an issue with me for some odd reason. I could make the tiniest mistake and he would chastise me for it. Meanwhile the girls could make all the mistakes in the world and he would be like “it's okay, honey”. Then proceed to make a sexist joke either…

He said it was not unreasonable and the job would require weekend work and at least 10hr days, and it would be at least 3 years before I would get promoted to having consistent days off. They were hiring only one person. It was for the USPS.