Month: October 2022

I'll start i was out of state on vacation work was fucking with me. I had a trainee they wouldn't get him a log in so he used mine. I sat it up so he had people to help him. No one did I took my vacation heard something got fucked up while I was out and I was gonna be fired I laughed said no way I literally was 3 states away. End of the day hey you fucked something up last week. Me I was in another state you knew that approved it I have photos of me in that state and checkins how did I fuck something up. Your login was used by your trainee so we gotta fire you. It literally wasn't me you know this. Look man its your login you're getting fired. I have no write ups. Doesn't matter your fired. They had been…

So I'm a wildlife biologist/ecologist, and while there's a lot that's frustrating about it, I can't imagine doing anything else for a living. ​ My friend thinks that the default relationship between a worker and their job needs to be adversarial in that, you're supposed to not like it, or at least barely tolerate it. He said that I live an extremely privileged existence because I was able to choose to do something in a field I love, unlike common people. ​ I wonder if he has a point, and I don't belong in workers' rights discussions. I have been trying to raise the idea of unionisation in academic/lab sectors in my field, but if it isn't applicable to the general relationship workers have with their workplaces, then perhaps I'm making a mistake in approaching it in this way. ​ Is this a deal-breaker, or am I over-reacting? I'm genuinely…