Month: November 2023

So glad I had to leave my grandparents house that I haven't seen in two years then drive for 5 hours in a snow storm to make sure I'm home tonight just so my boss can make some money tomorrow. Capitalism is popping off today 🤪

I’ve really been freaking out for the past month or so about this. So I had been doing contracted IT work for a non profit for 4 years & almost exactly a month ago, my manager and the head of IT travelled up from 3 states away randomly to end my contact because “they are restructuring the position” which means whatever they’re doing, it’s without me. This comes on the heels of them probably getting tired of me constantly refuting the additional new responsibilities/locations without restructuring my contract. Anyway, I had a hunch things were going this way, so I reached out to a friendly enough former manager in the IT at the time (but also obviously a company man) to ask if they were in fact ending my contract. He played dumb like he didn’t know, which was kind of expected and fine, but during the playing dumb he…

honestly this pisses me off so much and i see it happen so often they get into management and leadership positions because why? they are experienced but shouldn't they have managemnt and leadership skills? i got a new manager and he is so so bad. – basic manners non existent – seems to have no empathy – just seems to lack awareness and so on it just boggles my mind how people lke this get into managemnet positions? literally emotional intelligence of a fucking donkey

Wouldnt your incentives change if you can actually work to save up for shit that you are being priced out of???

If it wasn't so difficult to move out of my parents house, I would. But the cost of renting and purchasing homes is unbelievable. I make $20/hr and that's on the slightly higher end for hourly pay. After taxes, I would barely even have enough for basic necessities after paying rent. Even the expenses of moving to a state with a lower cost of living would be more than I can spare. If it wasn't so difficult to like my job, I would. But my wage is not enough to live and not equivalent to the work that I do. I work in emergency veterinary medicine and get paid $20/hr to do all the things human nurses (+/- $60/hr) do but for pets instead of people. I comfort owners who are saying goodbye to their loved ones. I am yelled at by owners who don't want to pay for their…

When I say “this”, I don’t even just mean teaching. I mean having a full time job. I don’t dislike teaching thus far; we’re halfway into the year and I’m still feeling fine. It’s not an easy job by any means but I teach something I’m passionate about and love building relationships with my students. I never take my job home and do my best to maintain a work/life balance. I’m usually fine. That is, until any sort of school break hits. During breaks, I get to dedicate myself to my hobbies and the things I love. I see my friends. I’m productive. I’m rested and happy and carefree. It makes me feel like this is how life is supposed to be lived. I’m reminded how good things could be if I didn’t have to wring myself out to simply have a roof over my head. I presently cannot see…

I desperately need money, and this what they pull, fuck my life.

Some background information- a uk based company, I started in July after being made redundant, he payed for my HGV Class 2 license in order for me to do the job, with the verbal agreement I would pay it back if I quit within 2 years (this cost around £2500) even though he claimed through a react+ scheme to receive money every 13 weeks to take me on which was up to £3000 Since then I never received a contract of employment and have been treated very poorly. I was told it would be 40 hours a week at £13.50 pay but it won’t be that until I’ve been out on my own in the truck Where as it’s only been £12.50 and more like 48 hours a week if not more. And I have been out on my own in the truck since day one. I often get a…