Author: Olivia

I work as an an electrician (Australia)and standard hours are 7am-3pm Mon-Friday. Recently management have asked that if we were to have appointments outside of these hours to let them know in advance so they know not to schedule work. Shouldn’t they be asking us if we are able to work overtime. Rather than expecting us to be available?

By definition, welfare programs are put in place to assist people that are not making enough money to get by, or have no income whatsoever due to inability to work (disability, injury, etc.) If everyone is struggling to get by even when working full-time in jobs that require strict qualifications, especially nowadays with ridiculous inflation and unachievable costs of living, doesn’t that mean that most of us qualify for welfare? Imagine the strain on governments when so many people start applying for social assistance due to the policies they’ve put in place and supported that made the rich richer and the poor poorer. And imagine the representation of the United States and other countries in the media if they have to report that so many people in their own first-world country are turning to welfare to get by. We should honestly hit them where it hurts and make them pay…

There is talk of “Biden's America” as if it has any significant distinction from Trump's America or Bernie's America. There might be slightly better or worse policies enacted under the current administration, but the trend is generally down. I have a suggestion: how about we have ourselves a nice Workers' America? Put some new meaning in the red of the American flag, no?

My circumstances is hell, I'm out of work at least 7 days a week per month because of my menstrual cycle, but can work anytime after that. I have 2 credit cards, both have a max of $300. I'm doing all I can to provide for my family. How can I earn $300 to pay off my card & at least get a rental to start out. I dropped out of college because the mental, financial & emotional strain is just to much. I have photos of how bad I hemorrhage under this stress. I'm working towards getting back in school despite homelessness. I don't need a hand out, just a hand up. Please don't go hard on me, I'm truly trying to better my life & this is the only way I know to go. I'm 39, I'm not totally disabled, but cant afford to have my uterus removed.…

Suffered an injury at work after a fall, resulting in some broken bones. This was caused by equipment not being maintained. I wasn’t doing anything wrong AND it was witnessed by management. Yet they refuse to accept fault. The company is self insured under worker’s compensation, as some major companies in Australia are. Which means they make their own decisions regarding work cover payments. So I have to appeal to the governing body if my state. They’re fighting it. I’m not allowed to work even on light duties until I’m fully cleared. I have to pay lawyers, still pay a mortgage and raise my son with no income while this fight goes to court. “But you’ll be back paid if you win”. Great. Minus legal costs and it doesn’t help me now. I genuinely don’t know how I keep paying bills as this drags on. Which is exactly what they…

I (26F) graduated last year from college in Computer Science and Applied Math and got a job at my dream company before I had even graduated. Working my ass off, having four jobs, paying my own way through school… It was all paying off. I did it! One step closer to the *American Dream,* or so I thought. I'm slowly realizing that this job and any job in my field is going to be monotonous and boring. I picked the safe route of great pay at something I'm pretty decent at instead of something I truly love and I'm starting to regret it. And I feel so guilty about it! I have what so many people want and I don't appreciate it. (There's the capitalist conditioning… ugh) I also have a start-up venture that I'm hustling my way through on the side as an eventual career pivot but I don't…

Everyday I am selling 8h of my time to some company. If i had the money, I could buy the time of other people. If i would get 5 million € by tomorrow, I could prevent myself from spending so much time in a company, its not even funny. Sure, that is technically not the same as buying time, but the result is the same. I don't get how people can say “time is the most valuble thing you own” and then proceed to spend thousands upon thousands of hours in a company they don't really like (except of course having to earn a living). Yet when you sit down in the evening and spend 2h reading a book, that is considered “a waste of time”. This saying is equally as BS as the “money can't buy you happines” saying, but I guess that is just how we justify spending…