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my state job pays 9bucks less an hour than a private sector job doing the same thing.

Landed this job because I have experience and thought it would be simple. 3months in and I'm sending my resume out to companies in the private sector. I literally am the hardest worker here and do more physical labor in 2hrs than fellow employees do in a year. I discovered that after taxes and deductions, I make under $17hr. I am eligible for food stamps and I work for the state. I hate being watched on camera and I hate being my own secretary.

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Poverty Threshold in the United States

The poverty threshold, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Census Bureau, is $14,097 for one person under the age of 65. Average monthly rent (per World Population Review) paid in the United States is currently $1,326. The lowest average rent is in West Virginia, at $732. The highest average rent is in Hawaii, at $1,651. This means that people in the US are paying between $8,784 at the lowest, and $19,812 at the highest, an average of $15,912, every year just for a roof over their heads. I think it might be time to update the poverty threshold. I'd be willing to bet that a lot more people are living in poverty than the threshold suggest, if I weren't broke.

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Colleagues keep commenting on how much I eat

I have a history with an ED and I'm slightly chubby. I really don't like eating in front of other people because I always feel embarrassed and ashamed. I try to get lunch as early as possible to avoid coworkers or eat at my desk when I can. It's always something like “Wow someone's hungry!” “You're gonna eat all that?” “That's a big lunch” “I wish I could eat as much as you do” “That's a lot of food!” and they always laugh and I can't help but feel they are laughing at me. I've started lying “oh I didn't eat breakfast” “my mum made the lunchbox” “I don't have time for dinner so needed a big lunch” etc. Maybe I'm too sensitive but I just never comment on what someones eating unless it's like “wow that smells so good!” etc. I am recovering from my ED and have been…

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A bit of venting

My boss just tried to ream me out for always working home office and never coming into the office. Says it's bad for the team spirit. She doesn't seem to be aware that my contract runs out by the end of the year. I have a half-time position, which doesn't quite pay the bills, and been asking for a full-time one for 15 months now, with no clear answer. Always saying “Yes, of course!” but not actually giving me the contract. Obviously, I've been looking for another job, and already have a new full-time position way closer to my home town secured. Does she really think I give a sh*t about the team spirit at this point? I'm never gonna see these people again, starting january. Apparently they've done similar stuff with other employees too. Giving them a new contract a whopping two weeks before the old one ran out.…

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I feel constantly sick with dread at work, even 10 years into my career, and I finally worked out why

I have no savings, I currently have 2/3 of one month's wage saved. I am entirely dependent on my income to live, for comfort, for everything I have. That fact makes me feel sick all day. It's not the job, it's not the work I have to do, it's not the people. It's the dependence.

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Sick days uk?

Unsure if this is the page for this! However How many days of sick can you have without been pulled in? Been at my current employer 4/5 months! Not had any sick days until recent – caught this nasty flu/cold that’s going around and I missed the Saturday and I’m planning on missing the Tuesday too, as still not 100% How many days sick can you have without been questioned or pulled in, obviously I know you can’t help it if your poorly but I tend to have bad anxiety about stuff like this! – should add I have zero warnings or anything to date! Thanks

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The Latest Policy of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in America

From now on, medical care and housing for workers and farmers are free. The overthrown capitalists have no right to enjoy free medical care and free housing, and they must hand over all their assets to farmers and workers. Capitalists should honestly obey all arrangements of farmers and workers, and treat farmers and workers as teachers. Children of workers and farmers can be sent to university campus unconditionally and enjoy various subsidies. All American people unite to criticize the capitalist's past history of exploiting and oppressing peasant workers.

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the United States of America was turbulent.

A great proletarian cultural revolution in the United States of America is going on vigorously. All the peasants, workers and homeless people in the country are united, and they form an organization, which is called the American Red Guards. American Red Guards took to the streets, criticizing and impacting capitalists and millionaires in various fields, because capitalists and millionaires are so rich because they suck the blood of working people. Today, the poor have become the masters of the United States. The poor have turned over and been liberated. They no longer endure the exploitation and oppression of the big capitalists. They have resisted, and a great class struggle is being waged on the sacred land of the United States.

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Russian Lieutenant General: “The United States is transferring its biological laboratory to a third country”

According to the Russian news agency Moscow on the 26th, Lieutenant General Igor kirilov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection unit of the Russian armed forces, said on the 26th that the United States is transferring its biological laboratory to a third country because of the high risk of accidents. “The high risk of accidents in American biological laboratories is one of the reasons why they withdraw from national jurisdiction and move to the territory of third countries including Ukraine and other countries,” he said. As a result, the epidemic prevention situation in its area has deteriorated, and abnormal diseases and their carriers have appeared. ” According to the report, kirilov also stressed that in the United States, the system for monitoring the safety violations of biological laboratories is scattered, and only covers facilities that enjoy federal budget allocations. Private laboratories are almost unmonitored, although they are conducting…

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Lawmakers and bosses are citing a supposed lack of workers as justification for a suite of reactionary policies aimed at further squeezing the working class