Month: October 2022

If you currently aren’t working, what do you choose to do instead?

About a month or so I was placed in a factory by a staffing agency. For context, I've been out of work for about 9 months prior. My mother has been experiencing back issues and is basically disabled until she gets surgery. I left my last job to move back in and help out. I'd been looking for work that fit those needs for a good while, but didn't find anything until this job fell in my lap. It seemed too good to be true, and as it turns out, that was the case. As mentioned, it's a factory job. Standard hours are overnight which was perfect for me. I could come in when my mom went to bed and be home in the morning when she woke up to help out. I was a little wary because factory jobs do tend to have some overtime and I wanted to…

I was thinking about this this morning and realized it probably belongs in this subreddit. As stated in the title, it's kinda a story, so I'll put a TLDR down the bottom. My first job was way back when I was 15, in 2005. It was working at a visitor's center, giving directions to tourists and selling little touristy merch, as well as like, stocking shelves and taking calls from member hotels about what their special referral rate of the day was. I lucked into this job because my dad was the manager. Relevant to the story as well is that there were two visitor's centers; the one I worked at on the highway and the one 45 minutes away that got literally 1/10th the traffic we did, but was connected to the main offices. So, in hindsight there were signs something was coming. My dad's boss had never liked…

Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot. For real though – I'm in a union, but our contract allows the company to reassign us to any site up to 100 miles away from our home, for as long as they like, with no recourse or appeal, and no request for transfer back. Fuck Boeing. Fuck you, IAM751.

I don’t know what to do about that.

If wrong sub, lmk. I can’t express disdain for work in other subs so apologies in advance. Ok so long story short, I despise my job working as a production manager at a film distribution company. I started my career 20 years ago and thought working in entertainment was so ducking cool and needless to say I’ve been through the ringer a lot. Mental breakdowns, prescriptions, mental health leaves, etc. this shit sucks. I wish I could really explain to you how ducking awful it is more than I already am. I want out. I’m done. We fired the person below me because she was always drunk at work and just a bad seed (to the company). Pissed me off a bit how no one cared if she was ok but moreso how much time she was stealing from the company. Now that she’s gone I am doing the work…

Turns out I landed at 39.1 hours and she said “you could’ve stayed a little longer!!” I’m 17 🤨