Month: May 2022

What a large following the left has. 1.9 million already only on this subreddit with many more leftist subreddits almost as big. When are we going to organize around a good initiative? Let me elaborate. Electric cars, recycled bottles & vegan burgers are the most effective and efficient response of the current entities to our demand for change. If we are not happy about their production response, that is a gap in the free market to jump into ourselves. Correspondingly, opposing Capitalism is mentioned in this subreddit. Capitalism is just the system that we observe that is based on processes and tools, which are again based on our behaviour. If you want to change the system, you have to do something about those underlying forces. It is the same when you want to stop e.g. an addiction. I believe it is much easier than we think, having experienced the effectiveness…

i had an interview with my boss yesterday about a full time position within the company i'd applied for online. it's nothing serious, just full time retail, while i'm currently part time. the interview was fine but i keep coming back to something he'd said about his managerial style. he's a typical retail manager, so you might already be familiar with the sort of bullshit he's into. he doesn't give a fuck about any of us and has, in my short time with the store, literally opened the door to customers and gone back to his office while a coworker of mine was lying on the floor waiting for an ambulance. he's also dressed up as cupid on valentine's day for photo ops with us because he's such a fun loving guy and we're all best friends. nothing in the store is a priority unless it directly, immediately effects the…

Lately I just feel more and more exhausted and frustrated by the idea of working— not because I hate my job (I actually enjoy what I do and derive a sense of satisfaction and purpose from it), but because it feels like I don’t have a choice. I don’t come from money, I have to pay rent and utilities and buy groceries, and I need money to survive, but the thought of having to spend 40+ hours a week on the job, every week, year after year for the next 40+ years of my life feels suffocating. It just doesn’t feel fair or right that people should have to submit so much of their time and freedom just to have the basic means of a semi comfortable life. How do you cope with it?

I basically told him I'm looking for a full time position and have availability open, he says he only has 4-8 hour shifts and depends on “work orders”, but nobody wants to work! Anywho, I worked 3 hours the other day so I'm gonna go ahead and quit