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Humans should go back to nature

Capitalism is killing humanity. Capitalism kills the planet. I don't want to live in a world where I need to work in order to just barely live. I interview, 2 days for a job. I hear nothing from them, after both interviewers were practically salivating over my work experience and acting all like “I see no reason why you shouldn't be hired” … And I'm all over Indeed and others, applying to anything. I see ads saying you don't even have to have a GED to get this job. Jobs where even if you only have half a brain, so long as you can walk and talk, you're hired. But me? I'm over-qualified… they're looking for “walk and talk”ability when I have “walk, talk and chew gum” on my resume. That makes me over-qualified. I have full control of my motor functions. That makes me over-qualified. I don't need to…

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my boss continuously pushes me to my limits

for context, i am 9 months and one week pregnant (37 weeks). anyone whose been pregnant knows how draining, uncomfortable and miserable this is. she still schedules me 9 hour shifts and when i take a break to go sit down, she asks me why. i’ve also told her i can’t be the only manager on shift in case something were to happen and i needed to leave, i told her this when i was 29 weeks and she’s scheduled me 3x now where i am the only manager. i totaled my car the other day by hitting a deer and she told me she really needed me that day because 1) i was gonna be the only manager for 4 hours and 2) she was expecting company later that evening. i laughed and hung up on her. today i found out her and her husband can’t conceive which now…