Month: November 2023

So I had this supervisor who I felt like always found a way to constantly add more work to my plate and yelled at me when I didn't finish it fast enough for her liking. I hated going into work because she was always finding something I “did wrong”. But she made my decision to quit easy eventually. I ended up getting into an accident on my way home from work one day (it's a 45 min drive home). I was going well under the speed limit due to poor winter driving conditions but even being careful my car lost control and I went into a ditch. Best part is I was in the middle of no where, wearing a dress and heels, and had a dead phone. I hiked up the ditch and to the nearest house but had no luck. Thankfully after 30 minutes a car at an…

After 10.5 long years of working for one of the major telecom companies in the USA I'm finally bailing. The pay is ok, $22.xx/hr in Louisiana, but I have to sacrifice so much of my mental health for this place that I can't take it anymore. I can't deal with management who will lie to your face. I can't deal with the constant backpedaling done on decisions just because a couple people “escalate” over a decision that is in policy that should've been enforced years ago. I can't stand having my image, my work ethic, my capabilities, completely ripped apart and made to look like a fool so that “leadership” can come in and say they “took care of the problem” and they're “going to make us revert back”. I can't stand being made a fool of by leadership and make it sound like I didn't hear anything right. Yes,…

I’ve come to realize that I’m just too lazy and unmotivated to live. I’ve only been in the workforce for about 5 months and I’m already done. There is no job out there that I’ll enjoy working. There is no “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps” talk that’ll work for me. Why is it so wrong to want to be happy for most of your life? Why is it wrong to not want to work away half your life? Every time I say anything about me not wanting to work, I’m just met with “Oh well, that’s just the way it is” “Stop complaining” and “You’re just weak and lazy”. I don’t know what to do anymore. I know what I really want, I want to be a stay-at-home mom, and not just cause I don’t wanna work a 9-5 I also just genuinely want kids. But every time I…

To preface this: I'm not necessarily suggesting the method I'll mention below as a way to actually fund a UBI because I think there are better methods. I'm just laying out a case for why the idea that a UBI would somehow be too expensive is complete bunk. There is more than enough wealth for it, at least in the United States. The top 10% of Americans own 101 trillion in total wealth. There are about 258 million adults in the United States. Let's say there's a UBI of about 500 dollars a month. 258 million times 500 is 129 billion. 101 trillion divided by 129 billion is about 783. 100 divided by 783 is about 0.13. This means that a 0.13% wealth tax on just the top 10% every month (or a 1,56% wealth tax a year) could fund a monthly UBI payment of 500 dollars for every American…

What stops everyone from seeking more opportunities in the work place at slightly higher remuneration? The pay difference could be between 8K for the first 3 years, and if all goes well could be up to 2OK at its maximum per year on top of current salary. It obviously comes with more responsibilities, stricter deadlines, and unsure of the impacts with current work/life balance.

What stops everyone from seeking more opportunities in the work place at slightly higher remuneration? The pay difference could be between 8K for the first 3 years, and if all goes well could be up to 2OK at its maximum per year on top of current salary. It obviously comes with more responsibilities, stricter deadlines, and unsure of the impacts with current work/life balance.

Recently our staffing got moved around, and while the job is the same, the buildings we’re in are different, with new managers. I got along fine with my old coworkers and managers, with no complaints. My new manager has yet to say a hello, good morning, etc. The only thing she says is my morning assignments and to complain I haven’t done something fast enough. I chalked it up to maybe she’s just rude or she’s just not one for niceties. Today (on my fourth day in the new building) the upper management went around to inspect our workspaces while I was on lunch. She texts me to call her when I get back. When we meet up, she brings me inside the storage closet where there’s three other coworkers and proceeds to tell me the upper management “had a fit” at how messy the closet was and that she…

Recently our staffing got moved around, and while the job is the same, the buildings we’re in are different, with new managers. I got along fine with my old coworkers and managers, with no complaints. My new manager has yet to say a hello, good morning, etc. The only thing she says is my morning assignments and to complain I haven’t done something fast enough. I chalked it up to maybe she’s just rude or she’s just not one for niceties. Today (on my fourth day in the new building) the upper management went around to inspect our workspaces while I was on lunch. She texts me to call her when I get back. When we meet up, she brings me inside the storage closet where there’s three other coworkers and proceeds to tell me the upper management “had a fit” at how messy the closet was and that she…