Month: May 2023

As a rule I don't talk about staff to other staff – I talk to my family at home when I am frustrated. My place of work is very 'office politics' in terms of a lot of staff talk about other staff the second they leave the room, this has always made me very uncomfy and I don't participate in the conversations. I go quiet and leave the office space. An area manager has recently texted me from an office I haven't worked at for about 3 months (I move between 4 offices depending on where I'm needed). It started off as her asking me to come in for a Saturday shift to cover another employee, a second later she messaged me that I wouldn't be needed as I refused to work with 'staff A' and said even though staff A wouldn't be working that shift I wouldn't be needed…

After seeing our parents, likely single parent, go through misery at work, and die, what do you feel you have left to convince you life is joy and that you have energy left in you to live it and find it? My mom died last year. Felt like the final nail in my family coffin. It's just me and my brother now. My mom raised me with the hardest work she could find after my crack addict father gave her a stroke by bashing her head against the wall one day. All of the philosophy and hard work in the world doesn't seem to make a difference, sometimes. Lukacs once wrote the proletariat is the subject of history. I firmly believe this still, even if he died doubting it. What makes your living through working poverty worth it to you?

I work for a large freight transportation company that has been operating at near record margins, despite lower volume. Recently, our entire office staff has been informed that our shifts are being reduced from 8 hours to 7 hours. Because we’re hourly employees, this results in a 12.5% reduction in our paychecks, 401k contributions, etc. There is no timetable for us to return to normal operations. I’ve worked here for over 12 years, and will be able to absorb the financial strain for the time being. But, I’m gutted for my coworkers who have worked here for 20+ years & don’t know how they’re going to be able to pay their bills since inflation had already taken its toll. I think it’s worth noting that our company has spent billions (with a “b”) of dollars in the last several years on stock buybacks, and that, despite lower volumes, we (as…

After “cost of living” increases of 2% per year through the pandemic and my latest seniority raise of 50 cents, I make less now (when my wage is adjusted for inflation) than I did at the start of the pandemic. The bonuses are still flowing for the top execs though, even though our system is losing around 100 million each year!

The addicted Congressmen may have forgotten the proletariat is the subject of history, but I haven't. My poor mom died a worker and they live it up pretending this recession isn't murder on the poor. Interest rates are not alive. A percentage increase this way or that will never equate to living beings. Speaking of them. Those bitches in Congress are on so much dope they'd blow up the White House if they lit a cigarette. I'd know. Vyvanse, Adderall, anti-depressants, Valium. The drugs were always name brand in FEP records. Can't have generic. But they were universal. The people showing up to our Congressional occasions are high, as a rule, not as an exception.

Decided to change up my career path from hospitality to trades because I felt stuck with nowhere to go and wanted something with more growth and better finance. After several months of search I had finally found a trades job that I was actually interested with great potential! Met up with the boss, gave me a nice run down of the work and promised me comprehensive training, schooling, certification, equipment etc. (sounds fantastic!!!). I've told at beginning before I was hired that I am not used to this line of work as I am a bit more spoiled and would need some time to get myself adjusted on getting dirty and operating dangerous machines. Started the job as a basic laborer, nothing fancy but something enough to understand the basics of the job, boss even check up on me twice during my first week to see how I am liking…