Month: February 2023

There's construction work going on at my workplace . They are doing something with the roof. We have two of the teams of 6 people each crammed into a space for 6 while one section is getting work done. Today we had a little part of the roof fall in and small stones and stuff just fell down. Obviously people stopped work to look at it and try to move away. Our boss comes in and basically says “oh don't be scared, it won't fall. And even if it does it's just small stones you won't get hurt. Just carry on.” And in the next breath he turns to a product sample kept on a table and goes “why have y'all kept this here. See it has dust on it now.” The concern for an inanimate object but not human life is not surprising but shocking still. I hate it…

I really dislike having to talk to bosses especially about things they've done wrong. These kinds of situations trigger my ptsd, so having a calm robot text playout a controlled situation based on my worst fears of how he will react and how I can manage a response helps me feel more armed going into the conversation. A fear is that I'll have a panic attack while trying to communicate, usually while being cut off and belittled. He thinks I'm crazy or 'not able to manage stress' and then finds some excuse to fire me. Sometimes I can feel this way, because well, its happened with a previous abusive employer. I do try not to project my triggers, but the power dynamic I think renders the situation inherently triggering. Even if these are different people, different companies, etc the fact remains that my ability to eat is tied to this…

I’m 20 years old pissing my life away at a bullshit job unable to go to college, unable to start a family. I can’t move out of my parents’ house. I don’t see the point of existing if I can’t even simply start a family. I don’t see the point to all of this. I wish I was a hunter. I wish I lived a couple thousand years ago where I could go out in the woods and hunt my own food. Fish. Bathe in a lake. Run through the trees. Bring purpose to my own tribe of humans. Feel appreciated. Today and tomorrow I will wake up and every morning after realizing how unimportant I really am and how my life actually has no meaning. I bring little to no impact to the world. I am an unimportant worker slave bringing nothing to the table. Serving people who don’t…

I have a few diagnoses that require me to have regular appointments, ~ 5-6 appointments reoccurring every three months. Both clinics I go to (I'm bound by public transit and there are no other clinic available in my area) are not open on the weekends, and their clinic hours are the same as my work. So my only option is to put in a workplace accommodation to have the needed days off to take these appointments. Great, that's done and approved. That's multiple days' worth of PTO that I have to use now to not be financially fucked every 3 months. (It burns through more PTO because of my messed up small town local bus system). So, no vacations for me cause I gotta burn it covering my medical issues. I fucking hate the US.

I was reading a new book put out by Gegenstandpunkt and came across a passage that I figured this forum could appreciate: “Everyone needs work — many people cannot find any. One would be in the best of company if one judged this to be a social problem and imagined that “promoting employment”[i] was the appropriate solution. One might call for government measures to create jobs and reduce non-wage labor costs, for more pressure on the unemployed with Hartz IV[ii] and other welfare state regulations, for the wealth tax to be done away with and the “scarce commodity” of work redistributed by reducing working hours, for the “creation of new jobs” through part-time and temporary work, or whatever. However, this would mean overlooking a certain absurdity: if there is not so much to do anymore, if what is required can be done by fewer people in less time — why…

I've been working for my current employer (very small company) for about 9 months now. When I was first onboarded they said we should see our deposits hit on the 15th of each month, and that has happened maybe once in my time at the company. I have always gotten paid— just more often than not, late (sometimes up to 15-20 days late) and after a lot of me having to bug the CEO. Am very fortunate to have a bit of savings to cushion, but honestly if I have to use that money in an emergency I'd be screwed having to guess at when my next paycheck is going to come in. For context, I'm salary, based in the US, job is mostly remote but requires us to come into the office maybe once a month. We are paid on a monthly basis for the work of last month.…

Assume you were offered a position that paid 60% more than your current salary, in a company you like and with management you can get along with. The flip side is that the office is 30 miles away from your house in the top 10 largest metroplexes in America. Could you be swayed if the price is right? Or has remote/hybrid work become top priority in job negotiations?