Month: July 2023

Amazing album of classic union songs. More applicable than ever now.

Oh hi, me again, and yes, same company. Anyway, they have us clock in and out on our personal phones (they do not provide an alternative) and routinely have trouble with this because I don't have data, and the site often will not allow me to edit the time later. I just received a deposit of 175, for maybe 9 hours of work. I worked 32 this week. It would be on me if I simply didn't reach out to have my times adjusted, but surprise, I did! I did before the pay period ended and my check did not reflect that. They are now telling me that it will take at least two weeks to get that check. I pay rent in a week. FUCK companies, fr. I can't wait until they fire me.

I just graduated from college, Advertising. I had two ok jobs/internships before the pandemic hit. After it did tho, my work life has been a mess. I really haven’t been able to keep down a job. I work corporate (client support) and it’s always remote. The jobs are so fucking easy and mindless, but I’m really bad at clocking in and out, taking a selfie every time I do it, keeping the GPS on my phone always on. It makes me angry. Everything makes me angry. I also am a very expressive and open person so I have a hard time keeping up the facade of a “good worker”… So I got fired today, 45 days in, because I am “don’t inspire professional confidence”. Asked about my actual work and they deflected. I left. I hate spending 9h everyday doing things for people I don’t know or care about, just…

TL;DR — I want to work but nothing seems to be compatible with my illnesses. I have been turned down for disability multiple times. I am on a waitlist for Grubhub and DoorDash in my area and so far have had one order come through on Uber Eats in the past 7-days. (I live in an economically depressed, rural area.) I have to borrow a vehicle to deliver food cause mine would not pass inspection last year, so for the first time in my adult life, I don't have a car. But I do have an Associate's in Sociology and a Bachelor's in Psychology, with a work history largely in administrative assistance, for all the good that does? I never know from day to day or even hour to hour if I am going to feel well or be bed-ridden, so I need a remote job based on a workload…

Since I had so many people in my message requests and comments the last couple of days begging for an update from this post, I thought I would jump on here and close this little journey of mine out. To make it VERY clear, I am leaving this job soon (Interviewing with a couple of different universities right now) and I work at a non-profit that is very disorganized. There is no way I am sticking around to get fired to prove a point, there is no severance pay in this org. I tried to take some of your comments and my family's advice by going to HR to bring up the issues that have been occurring with my boss in terms of him lying about my work ethic, micromanaging me, and alluding to firing me. HR did not care at all and tried to tell me that she cannot…

Honestly. People who are in the work force and are in unions and keep saying how unions are a “liberal agenda” or “commie collectors” are just fucking morons. These are the people who vote in a union then sit back and do absolute fuck all to help change the way they should be treated. They’re so fucking entitled that they expect change to land in their lap. No you dumbass, it starts by YOU being at the table, YOU voting towards better deals. Not just fucking sitting there and expecting the company will just magically give you $100/hr. Like, go fuck yourself.