Month: July 2023

Hey all. “Be the change” post here. First off, I am an anarchosyndicalist and thus firmly believe in wage dissolution because I am sick and tired of this predatory capitalism shit fucking fucking everybody over. As much of an idealist as I am, anarchosyndicalism is, sadly, wayyyy too far left to be feasible at this stage of late capitalism. We are starting to see the death throes in real time. However, idealism won't put food on the table or pay the rent. And God forbid we have a little bit of fun outside of survival. I cannot alone change this. However, I really do fucking give a shit about my fellow human beings and want to get a temperature check on this idea. As much as I hate how things are, I can only change myself. I run a successful business and it is growing and in a future proof…

I have decided this is my new 2-5 year plan. and I hope to retire overseas. YES, I recognize that it's not easy to just up and leave, especially if you have children, spouses, family, commitments, pets, etc. It's not for the faint of heart. However, for those that are thinking of it: I am curious to know if your future plans involve not staying in the capitalist hellscape that is the USA. I don't see this country getting any better and I fully believe that 2024 will be our speedrun into full-on fascism. Blue states may be able to buffer their citizens a bit better than those in red states but it will eventually come for us all. I am looking into digital nomad visas, teaching English overseas in a low-cost-of-living country, or even doing a marriage if I get desperate. In what ways are you looking into escaping…

My work is just, such a mess. I work in care work for a group home for disabled people, and no one ever trained me properly for the specific job I am doing. I learned things as I went and it has mostly been ok, but it seems that everyone has contradicting information. We also have another supervisor that came in who is more on top of things, which is good, but the dissonance is a lot where like, I was not told the proper way to do things and it's problematic and I am frustrated. I have been at this job for 3-4 months now and I do not have the necessary information. I had a group therapy meeting today that I did not want to miss, so I asked my co-workers if they could take my shift. I was told by multiple co-workers that we can ask each…

Early in June, I had a 1.5 hour talk/phone interview with an HR lady for a high level admin position. I crushed it. It’s a dude who started his own business that’s now huge and he needed admin support. I have almost 20 years of experience. She has me take a personality test and two other assessments. It all took about 3 hours to complete. I then meet with CEO guy for another hour. Talking to CEO guy, there were a ton of red flags. I’ve worked for people like this before and it was ungodly awful. This guy needed someone to tie his shoes for him and to be available at all hours of the day, including the middle of the night, weekends and holidays. No overtime and HR lady even admitted that they don’t pay well. This is a $40k/year job. I met with CEO guy in the…

I emailed HR last week after working here for 6 mo to confirm it was a lump sum payout after 2 years (i had already known this through coworkers, but wanted to confirm) and was informed by HR that they don’t actually have a signed contract and sent me one to sign for 10k. After responding back stating my original offer and contract, they said the 20k offer was a miscommunication and don’t have record of the original contract. When I accepted the position originally I signed the 20k contract and sent it back to HR. Then I had to push my start date back 3 months which they had no problem with. 3 months later they made me reapply for the position under a different HR system, which I found suspicious. When I reapplied I made it a point to clarify this was the same position I had already…

Hi guys, I recently scored a job in my dream career path (buy side investing). I am getting exposure to a ton of really interesting topics but I am coming to find the actual scope of the work to be excessively tedious, based on the processes designed by my manager who has been there for 10 years. She is the type of person who would color code in 12 different colors to study for exams, just to completely not understand the subject material beyond the lowest level needed to pass. I on the other hand am extremely ADD. I love to solve problems and I am highly sophisticated in my field from independent study outside of school. I literally cannot take it. Every single email I get requires me to place things in completely meaningless and specific file locations which are are moronically designed and have absolutely no logical cohesion.…

Growing up, in school & at home, I often heard, “Get a job you love & you won't have to work a day in your life.” It really seemed like nonsense to me at that time because both my parents had blue collar jobs. I'm sure my mom didn't really LOVE cleaning offices at night & my dad didn't LOVE his marshmallow factory job, but a JOB is a JOB. It puts food on the table & pays the bills. Right? However, as I get older, I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, there may be something to this old adage. Does anyone here LOVE their job so much that it doesn't feel like working when they're doing their job? Does it REALLY make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things? Is your life better because you love what you do? Or is it all…

A computer? Never heard of her. Tell me why instead of using excel spreadsheets my company makes me keep hundreds of physical sheets with one name on each of them to keep track of who has what. I have so many papers. They all have literally one word on them. They make everything so unorganized. That’s it.