Month: May 2022

First, if you can unionize or join a union, you should. Unions fight hard for their members. Unions are very effective at improving working conditions for their members. With that said, labor unions are not immune to treating their employees bad. I spent the last three years as a union representative in the midwest. It is one of the largest labor unions in the country/world. I spent the majority of my time in grocery stores. I'm not going to say anymore because I have a sister that also works there. I have since moved on to a new employer that treats their employees significantly better. When I was hired, I was told this was a life-style job. They prefer people with either no family or a very small family. I didn't really understand what that meant until training started. I was fresh out of college and needed a professional job.…

I am 63. Worked 2-3 jobs most of my life (mostly a day office job, and then 1-2 side jobs/side hustles). I have talents, office skills, a degree. I'm depressed (who isn't?) but I'm a boomer so I don't expect any help with this. Abusive background, abusive marriage, left them both. Body torn up from a car accident years ago. The body is just plain failing on me. My blood pressure is through the roof, my legs hurt all the time and just don't work at all sometimes. It has been hard to get a doctor to discuss my legs because they want to fix my blood pressure first – and no one wants to discuss that maybe being in constant pain is one force driving the pressure up. The last doctor literally told me that “People don't get badly hurt in car accidents” How do you deal with that?…