Month: September 2022

My boss always complains about “lazy” government and city employees allegedly only work 6 hours a day and make a lot of money. I say allegedly because I do not know if that is true; however if it is that sounds like a good thing to me and I am happy for them! Why wouldn’t you want to spend more time with your family and have the means to provide them a good life? It’s hard to get into these positions and I’m so happy for those who are. Sounds like a way better quality of life to me and I’m sure they work hard. This mindset is the absolute worst.

I guess I'll start out by saying I know a lot more people have it worse than me and have to endure far more than I do. I work in a warehouse and I'm sure a lot of people around me probably feel the same way if not worse, but the strain of this job is really starting to affect me and I'm not sure how much longer I can take. I've been at this warehouse for about 2 years, at first, it wasn't so bad, I've gotten over the typical working pains of being at a warehouse but now it's the migraines that are affecting me. I've always gotten migraines ever since I could remember, and i don't know why i thought getting a job at a warehouse with defining loud noises and bright piercing lights would be a good idea. I do try and take medicine for it,…

To make the story short, I’m a nail tech. I moved from a shitty salon where a coworker was smoking heroin in the bathroom, I brought it up to my former boss and he didn’t give two flying fucks. So I got hired at this new, fancy place. I literally took a pay cut because I wanted better working conditions and the training. I have been doing this for a while but the owner is Instagram famous locally for his nails and they are really, really good. Who wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to train with someone like that? They told me they would pay me minimum while they trained me and then they would up my pay once I was officially taking clients. They told me to show up early with my documents. I showed up the first day, waiting for the onboarding and all that. Nope, it’s just…