Month: August 2022

I have a friend who is well off. His family is filthy rich and his dad recently gave him a loan of thousands of dollars to start a business which he is earning a lot from. The other day we were talking about work and he goes that he is a hardcore capitalist and that it helps everyone work and earn their own profit. He talked about how people don't work hard and then cry about poverty. I gently reminded him about his financial status and that most people have to work day long jobs. He goes “they still have 8 hours in their days left” as if after working a tiring job they won't need sleep and are exhausted. When I told him that he says they are just excuses. I am so mad at the moment at him. He is a good friend but sometimes he is delusional…

The boomer have a total disconnect of how much things costs, a house that costed 250k when they were in their 30s currently costs 2M, yet they think a pay equal to what they got paid back then is fair and good enough for us. And gen X people that are the directors and CEOs currently continue that 80s trend of ultra greed for them, with outlandish salaries for the top management while mere crumbs for the rest of the company. The 80s was a time of extreme greed for the young gen X, money was everything and showing up money was the thing to do. Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk for example, early gen X, that are CEOs and billionaires, wasting their excess wealth in vanity project instead of provide a fair pay for their workers, and fighting unions. BTW dear billionaires the best way to avoid a union…

The title is a pretty simple take we can all agree on, but I thought I’d post a little sanity check. I started a new job recently. Before getting to the new job, a little about my work history: My first job was in my university’s research center. I was doing “telephone surveys” where I’d basically cold call Medicare beneficiaries (mostly old widows) all day long, and ask them basic questions like “how many meals a day do you eat?” — every single call was another sob story about how their grandkids didn’t call anymore, or about how they were sometimes lucky to afford TWO meals a day. I was fired for “not sticking to the script” when I felt bad for one lady who just needed someone to talk to. After that, it was a string of hospitality, retail and IT jobs, with one bad manager after another. I’ve…

Writing this just to get it off my chest because I wan’t to cry. So, I’m (f22) a fresh grad and I got a job as an HR in a small firm. For context, I’m the only HR here and there’s less than 20 employees in my office. We just had an office outing a couple weeks ago, It’s basically a paid vacation for 3 days (with 2 days on the road and 1 day with full itinerary, I have my own opinion about this but that’s another story). Back to the problem, today 2 of our employees submitted their resignation letter. This pissed my boss off because “we spent money for the outing and now they’re basically being ungrateful”. So my boss told me to make all of our employee sign a pact tomorrow that state: If the employee participated in the outing 2 weeks ago, they can’t resign…