Month: August 2023

Unfortunately the other day, I sat in on one of the worst meetings I think I've ever had. A very high-up individual was there. Highlights include: “sick of answering complaints” regarding the reinforcement of an old unpopular policy… but we're still to enforce the policy. Then we were told the complaints meant we weren't working hard enough/going the extra mile anymore and we should be better. We are incredibly understaffed and burnt out right now. They continue with “I don't understand why we can't retain new employees”. Then IMMEDIATELY complained how they'll just “go down the street where they can get paid more”. What kind of LOGIC do these people HAVE?! Who the hell ISN'T going to go to the job that starts at the highest wage? We're not as competitive in our day 1 hire package as we used to be, and therefore not as attractive as an employer.…

I am so angry at society and the need for jobs. I am a good person and do so many good things. I help people, I’m kind, I’m reassuring, I literally do whatever I can to make the people around me/the people I come in contact with happy, and feel seen, heard, and cared about. I love so deeply and so hard. I love animals and am overall a really easy going person. But I don’t have a job. I’m autistic and finding/keeping jobs is REALLY hard for me. Like SUPER hard. And just like that. All of the good that I have and that I give; doesn’t matter. Just poof. Gone. Because having a job and making money is the main thing that matters to everyone now. It puts me in a wildly bad headspace because I don’t feel like I’ll ever be enough. I wish all that I…

I need to vent about a feeling of return to office. My current gig is at a law firm. I do tech stuff for lawyers. The firm has instituted a 3 in/2 out hybrid/return to office situation. Whenever I go in I feel like I’m just window dressing to justify the property. 2/3 of my team is in Texas and my other team member is in Rhode Island. The people I’m supposed to support, the lawyers, are almost never in the office. Moreover all the work I do for them is either over email, IM, or on the phone/zoom meetings. Also, a lot of them are in offices across the freaking country. To add to this, according to my boss the COO said he’d fire anyone not meeting the 3 days in requirement regardless of reason. Now I spend ~2 hours a day, 3 days a week, to sit and…

I've been working in a warehouse in FL for about 2 months now. The warehouse has 0 AC but had four 4.5-5ft diameter shop fans spread around the different rooms. The main office where the receptionist and Manager sit has a single wall AC unit but is kept very low (67 degrees that they never turn up/off at night when we are closed). We are often told if we get too hot we can go into the office in order to really cool down. We never do because when we get hot we sit in front of a big ass fan in our break room. Where I am in Florida has had daily heat index' between 110-121 everyday for the last few weeks. We never complained about the heat outside of jokingly. We do the work, sweat, go sit down. The company next door (has AC and we share a…

I have seen a graphic that showed how much money somebody needs to comfortably retire early at age 55 in the USA. Now Hawaii was clearly the leader of the pack, where you need 3.07 million US$ to retire, followed by California and New York with 2.23 and 2.18 million US$ respectively! Even in the cheapest state, Mississippi, one needs 1.4 million US$ to retire early! I got two questions to this: 1: How accurate are these numbers? 2: Is this even attainable by the average US worker?

I, like many of you, have been inadvertently placed on this cumrag of a planet to be a clockwork wage slave. The consequence of my existence is just that: to serve as a means of achieving what is not mine. A paycheck, as rewarding as it may seem to some, is not something to be proud of, for any set amount of newly displayed digits that appear on your checking account are to only be allocated for the sake of monetized survival. Humans have essentially monetized everything in existence, including your very own existence. Water, which is found nearly everywhere, still comes at a cost. Air conditioning, which is fundamental to one’s health, comes at a cost. Health itself comes at a cost, and at a big personal expense at that. Sanity comes at a cost. What I find to be incredibly fascinating is that the preponderance of human beings,…

I’ve been at this retail job for a year and a half, and in that time I’m really convinced their either trying to push everyone out, kill us slowly, or send us on a grippy sock vacation. We’ve dealt with a broken AC the past two summers, shortened breaks, having 2 people shifts on weekends; our highest volume days, being punished for low moral, and such a mind boggling lack of transparency about our product (fake high end jewelry), bonuses, and management. I’m not working this upcoming Black Friday sale because life is too short for such misery, and if they fire me for that, it would be a blessing.

Having never worked an office environment and just dropped off some gear across from an office watching like fifty people working at their desks and I see so many posts about people having Office jobs where they do sweet fa all day and go home with no stress. It just makes me wonder.