Month: November 2023

The math on this is really sloppy, but it's just an idea that I had and felt like sharing. The US has approximately $102 trillion in total wealth after total debt is subtracted. The US has approximately 329.35 million citizens. That divided evenly leaves every citizen with approximately $310,000 in individual wealth. That's the whole pie. If you show up to a party and everyone gets a slice of pizza that's how much you would get. Instead, you're born into this party of life, the pie is huge and you're not given a slice. You're given crumbs. I'm not a socialist and I know it's more complicated than this, but seeing how much there is to go around and how little people actually survive with seems inherently wrong.

If possible, post your pay throughout the years! If you can, post the first approximate year you were in the work force, your dollar per hour or annual salary, if relevant (or an approximate, if you're older like me and can't recall exactly), and the type of work (feel free to be generic as possible, I don't want anyone to get doxxed). And if you can, post your consecutive jobs, years, pay, etc. It's insane to me how much lower pay is in a variety of fields, these days, and since the people who track our economic stats won't do it, we need more anecdotal evidence… because I KNOW we are going backwards as far as pay goes… and I don't just mean inflation. I'll start: First job at around 15-ish in the mid-90s. Got paid $7 an hour to work at a theme park kiosk. Early 2000s, I got…

Title pretty much sums it up. My boss is requiring a Saturday be worked in the next 2 weeks to make up for taking the day off on Thanksgiving. I’ve never in my life had an employer ask some shit like this so idk how to really go about telling him besides just flat out refusing to work a weekend that is supposed to my free time, all because a holiday falls on a weekday that is completely out of my control. I basically feel like I’m not even getting a day off for Thanksgiving at this point im just trading my weekend to spend time with my family for the holiday. And the icing on the cake is that working on Thanksgiving isn’t even an option. Am I being valid or should I just suck it up and stop complaining

I’m walking into work, after 2 weeks on vacation, and handing in my resignation. Mic drop. (I can’t sleep and am extremely anxious. But it will all be over soon.)

I recently was hired… I hope I didn’t make a mistake.

My coworker of almost 2 years has had every single Sunday off since she’s been hired. Protocol is every other weekend off. She works on my weekend to work, but only Saturdays?? She talks about going away on the weekends all the time and obviously not going to church. Is this a fair accommodation to miss work every other Sunday?

What if everyone donated 100 dollars Surely we could have enough to create a no work self sustaining community?

I arrived at work today at the Nestlé factory, where we produce ice cream. The machine was broken before we entered the factory. It was broken for 4 hours and we couldn't wait outside the factory and inside the facility, where we can exist without wearing noise-proof headphones or dust-proof clothing; and use our cell phones and talk. I was waiting and waiting for the machine to be fixed, so I decided to get comfortable, stand in the corner and just close my eyes. Then suddenly my boss appears and scolds me for my lack of enthusiasm, I reply that there is no work to do so I was just trying to kill time. Then he replies that he was expecting a 'youthful' personality and that I should be more awake. I told him I had all the energy to work on any job he had to offer in any…

i’ve been unemployed since i graduated college, i have a Bachelors and some good work experience, (manager for the last 2 years of the last 3 i’ve worked in a library, and before that worked food service). lots of the library jobs(or similar type of jobs) in my area move veeeery slow to hire, like three months upwards, i’ve been unemployed for awhile and decided i just needed a job to get me through because i cannot be sitting around just getting no’s three months later. (obviously i’m applying to more than one job at a time but you get the jist, i was out of savings) i got a shitty retail job, my first day was saturday. ive cashiered a total of 4 hours and am already being hounded about how i haven’t sold any credit cards, the literal second day my my manager called me to ask if…