Month: May 2022

I over heard my manager this morning talking on the phone about next weeks shift and that they were asking people to come in on their days off. I have Wednesday and Thursday off next week. So I remembered a text my wife sent me about cabin rentals at the state park a while back. So I called them and paid for the cabin rather than reserve it. No longer than two minutes after my confirmation receipt was emailed, I was asked to work. And smiled and told them I was surprising my wife with a get away and proceeded to show her the receipt. The look on her face when she seen the date of purchase was almost as good as my wife's face when I got home and told her of our camping trip next week. Not going to lie. Patting myself on the back for this one

I have worked for a very popular coffee company for almost 7 years. I have always been a great employee overall. I have always busted my ass every shift, picked up others’ slack, and put 110% into everything I do there. I have dealt with severe understaffing, crazy busy days where I didn’t even get breaks.. and I have always been treated fairly well until recently. I started to have a lot of physical health problems in December 2021. These rolled over into 2022, and caused me to miss some shifts here and there. This is when I started to have issues with my job. In February, I was given a verbal warning after one of my supervisors lied and said I no call/no showed (I checked the caller ID on the work phone which proved I called multiple times). Then, In March, I got covid and missed an entire…

I was raised to believe that if you do good, good things will happen. I neglected relationships and focused entirely on schooling. Straight-A student, practically never missed a day. I worked for a year at a job paying less than $10 an hour while living in a toxic environment because it was cheaper and by the end I had a bit over $8,000 in savings from working while balancing other aspects of my life. Then I wound up at a shitty abusive job which refused to pay for drive time and forced us to drive places on days we said we weren't available while I was in college and before I knew it I had $4k left. Then the pandemic hit and my account dropped to under $1k. For the first time ever I was fired from a job recently, because I was promised 2 weeks of training and instead…

I think everyone agrees that no matter how many bootstraps you pull up, you will never reach the wealth of the 1%. They can literally starve out the working class to force us to comply to their slave wages. They will never pay us enough to be able to live in their neighbourhoods. They’ll sing about no possessions while living in mansions. The only way we can hit back is to stop consuming their products and media. Vote with your dollar. *Avoid spending money on brands that pay slave wages. *Don’t buy from celebrity sponsors. *Don’t keep up with celebrity news in general. *Don’t follow influencers or anyone that glorifies sickening amounts of wealth. They want us to own nothing and be happy? Let’s buy nothing and be happy. I’m sick and tired of spending my money on consumer goods. I’m tired of being broke trying to buy the newest…