Month: April 2023

One of my co-workers said this to me. I was talking with them and stuff like past jobs came up. Things like struggling on our yearly salary came up. One thing led to another and this person then proceeded to tell me, and I quote, “Minimum wage is not meant to be lived on.” Excuse me? This was after they said the people who want $15+ for minimum wage would make everything more expensive. I asked this co-worker to elaborate and they said stuff like how minimum wage jobs are meant to be stater jobs and we're supposed to improve ourselves and work towards better jobs. I made my disagreement known. I said how these minimum wage jobs provide society so much and how everyone deserves to have enough money to live on. I even referenced how back in the day, there were people who were able to work on…

I get 3 weeks PTO a year. I'm pretty broke nowadays, so I'm not going on week long vacations. I mostly use my PTO for mental health days, which unfortunately I need often. I always feel like a human trash bag texting my boss in the morning that I won't be coming in. I'm worried she thinks I'm lazy, or is annoyed at the sameday call offs. But she's never said anything. I'll usually check the work calendar and if others are out, I'll power through the day and just cry during lunch. There is no one else scheduled off today, so I asked for the day today. I have the PTO, it's there to use, right? So why do I feel like I'm doing something horrible? Are the same day call offs a bad look?