Month: November 2023

I work(ed) as an MRI Tech at a decent sized hospital in Appalachia. I was on night shift for about two years hoping to get a weekend gig at the same hospital as it was close by where I lived at, and it would work well with my school and research I was doing with my professor. In October, something in me snapped. I didn't like night shift weekdays anymore. I was perfectly fine with night shift on weekends as the grogginess was limited to weekends, and didn't like missing doing things with my friends and family cause of how tired I'd be in the morning. I put in a request to change my shift to weekends, and had it denied because: “They couldn't find anyone else to replace me”. Now, I had multiple people find out about this and got angry at the admins. The people who had been…

I work at a dispensary in St Louis. We have a general manager who is a general garbage human (literally grabbed a box of moon pies from the FOOD DRIVE DONATION BIN). We've been organizing, we just got the signatures required to force an election and are only one away from being unanimous. Today, one of our main folks involved got fired. Against all of the standard operating procedures (SOPs). They did not get written up, there were no warning. Just fired. Luckily the union is filing an unfair labor practices complaint, and that person will, in all likelihood, get their job and back pay. Our union just got a $145k settlement from another dispo for the same bullshit I guess my point is that capitalists will fuck you over. When we stick together they lose power.

I’m working my dream job. Truly. Ever since I was a teenager I wanted to be a social worker, specifically working in foster care. Now I’m finally doing it and I’m miserable. I love my job and I could do it forever. I mean, the pay is breadcrumbs but I’m making it work for now. However, my boss and coworkers are about to ruin it for me. To make a very long story short, essentially any time I come to my supervisor with an issue, instead of being given support or a helpful solution, the situation is somehow twisted into being my fault and usually no action is taken by her. It doesn’t help that my coworkers have this sort of clique-y “mean girls” type vibe. Also, everyone acts like I’m the devil for creating boundaries that allow me to have a work life balance. I may have an opportunity…

It's not the company I'm pissed off about in this matter, although I have my own grievances on other things. It's my co worker who unfortunately have to partner with for this shift . I'll call them “Their majesty” (T. M). I work in a multiuse venue that hosts sports (the televised kind) and concerts very regularly. One particular team plays, I'm scheduled with T. M. pretty much: – clean the playing ground – wipe the team benches – media setup tables. – wipe perimeter seating – wipe and mop the retractable seating rows extended out – mop up the bases of the perimeter seats for shoe prints and dirt. – Check and Clean practice facility Typical day. I start off with the cleaning clothes, towels needed for the playing area cleaning. Then I have to grab the equipment, signs, block… Etc. After I grab all of that. T. M…

I just got done with training for this job and I am beyond drained with today. (1) I was told I would be able to CHOOSE my schedule. And also my off days. (2) I won't get holiday until like 2 months…when the holidays are over. (3) they completely lied to all of like the whole training team …by telling us false information. I'm beyond drained from back to back calls about devices I wasn't trained on. Literally the training consisted of policy. And what happens when we don't adhere..they didn't even give us our schedule this week until a day or so before. Like don't get me wrong but I really am constipating finding another job just because there's so many red flags it's ridiculous. Today is my first day on the phones and let's just say they don't believe in acw or being late 30 seconds from break.…

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.)