Just read this article about how taking NSAIDs and steroids for pain can make it become chronic, and realized something. Of course it does, because low back pain comes from an injury, and when you treat the inflammation without treating the injury, and go back to work because your shitty job doesn't give you sick time, you make the injury worse because you can't feel the pain. Repeat over and over for twenty years, and no shit it becomes chronic! We really need to figure out how to normalize true self-care, because I shouldn't have to live with this pain for the rest of my life for someone else's profits. https://www.aaas.org/news/anti-inflammatory-medications-raise-risk-chronic-back-pain-patients#:~:text=Overall%2C%20patients%20who%20took%20anti,lasting%20at%20least%20six%20months.
Month: May 2022
Thrown Under the Bus
Tl;Dr boss tells me to do something illegal and when I'm caught, throws me under the bus and gaslights me. So this is a story about a job I had about 8 years ago. I was hired as a manager of a tutoring center in California. I had previously worked for a different owner of the same franchise and it became clear to me that this new owner was in it for the money and not for the children and that bothered me, but I ignored it. During my training period, he had me at his main center, showing me the ropes. I was immediately put off by the state of the interior. The carpets were dirty and torn up. The toilet seat in the bathroom was rusty and crinkled. I went to vacuum and he warned me to only vacuum for a few minutes at a time and stop…
People are so fucking vile man. I'm literally just doing my job and they are mean and nasty. Everyone has an attitude and talks down to you. I don't make the rules if you have a problem with something call the boss don't take it out on me. I make nothing compared to your bill and can't control pricing. Sometimes shit costs what shit costs and you just gotta deal with it. You wouldn't barate and yell at your doctor over the cost of stuff. Don't take your anger out on folks who work for you. I hate customers and 90 percent of the time I wish I could just say fuck you I don't need your money. But 10 percent of the time people are nice and its that 10 percent that keeps me in this business. Anyone in the service industry no matter what type God bless you…
You’re better than that place
https://lawrencekstimes.com/2022/05/13/mayes-haskell/ This is my husband. This article only scratches the surface of the issues in this organization. There is one family that has members or close friends at almost every level of the agency, from Vice President to HR to maintenance. For DECADES, they have controlled who gets hired (b/c of HR) and made false accusations against those they don’t like to get them fired so someone they know can get the position. For example, this article failed to mention that the girl (Aja) who led the accusations against my husband was GIVEN his position once he got terminated. Before he got fired, a family member would literally walk behind him and call him a child to try and get a rise out of him. When he would ask them to stop and stated we have foster kids and he needs this job, they responded “I don’t care about your…