Month: May 2022

They're incompetent. Remote work forces them to actually contribute.

Edit: If anyone's reading this and looking for something helpful to say, just “hang in there” might help, know I'm not alone. . . . . HOAs are racist – it's a truism. But I became homeless and then jobless due to rent hikes 6 months back and moved in with my mother. She lives in a rural HOA area population 400 something. Please don't try to figure out where I am, deleting this post not long after it goes up. There's a lot of stuff from just the 18 hours I've spent around these HOA people I've got glints of, but training with one guy I met the first “So racist he calls white people n-words for pissing him off” in a long time. He's a perfectly nice guy in most respects, everyone “in the community” loves him, if I say a damned thing literally noone will believe, and…

‘[A] great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.’ https://files.libcom.org/files/Bertrand%20Russell%20-%20In%20Praise%20of%20Idleness.pdf ‘The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilisation and education.’ – In Praise of Idleness (Bertrand Russell, 1932)

I work 7 on/7 off nights at a hospital pharmacy. The hospital is 28 miles from my house and located downtown Austin. I fulfill my commitment that I was hired on to do. On my off week I pick up shifts at another site that is 4 miles from my home. There is a huge shortage of pharmacy technicians and the industry in general is short staffed. I do not think I am obligated on picking up shifts during the day or evening after fulfilling my night shifts I was hired on for. I work nights downtown specifically to avoid traffic. Let’s not forget about inflation including rising fuel costs! I was told if I didn’t like it that I should seek employment elsewhere. Well, I have 3 other positions that I can transition into full time at. The hospital closer to my home has set up a meeting to…