Month: September 2022

Long story short, I went to HR a few days back and complained about the music playing on the radio repeating the same songs over and over on a 12 hour shift. It was driving me crazy after hearing the same songs 3+ times a shift and I wanted something different. So they cut the music off completely for 2 days. During that time 3 employees called and claimed I was making threats to shoot the place up and saying I was going to kill myself. Now I’m on paid leave while I get assessed by some other company and can’t return to work till I get a clean bill of health that I’m not a threat to myself or others.

At my last work site I got some abuse from a team leader, thankfully that leader was on final warning and when I spoke with the manager it was made very clear to the TL what was going to happen If I proceeded to corporate. Ever since then until I quit I kept a list of any serious violations that management or staff I didn't like did. Things that would void insurance and broke other serious polices. I never disclosed the list to anyone, except as a joke one to another staff member, so I'd like to hear people thoughts about this. I wouldn't be comfortable using it as blackmail, and legally I would be fucked for doing so but I kept that info as a nuclear option. If my manager had seriously pissed me off, or been highly abusive or the like I could tank his career. I've seen…

So I’ve worked at a family owned place for a month, and was doing a task while sitting on a, we’ll say, makeshift seat. Not a chair, but not something that was gonna break or anything. The owner came by and told me to stand up while doing it cause I didn’t need to sit and it was a standing job. I politely asked “why does it make a difference?”. I’d like to emphasize that it did not make any difference to the task. Then he YELLED at me to stand up. He then came back a minute later with a manager and proceed to angrily rant in my face about America, freedom, laziness, and how I better not ask him why I can’t sit. In all of that he never actually gave a reason why I couldn’t sit or what difference it made. It was one of the most…

I (58F) have worked fulltime since I was 17. I've helped turn 5 great kids into 5 great adults and I carried the lion's share of the financial burden. I would do it again and have no regrets but consequently I have nothing for retirement. I don't own anything and now I'm wondering how I'm gonna make it. I'll never have my own home again unless I hit Lotto. I have a job I can tolerate but I can't afford rent. Fortunately my job is 100% travel and I usually live in a hotel but I don't want to stay on the road forever. I have no health coverage and no safety net. How the hell did I get here?

I was just going through some old schoolwork and found the paper where i wrote that i wanted to own slaves when i grew up. Got a chuckle out of it.