Author: Olivia

On Wednesday the market that I work for raised prices by $2 on most thing. As an example, sliced turkey cost $9.99 a pound. It now costs $11.99 a pound. I almost cried when I realized I had to work 1 hour to afford a pound of turkey

Serious question — has anyone ever asked the question “how much does the job pay” and the reason the recruiter/hiring manager got mad WASN’T because they knew the pay they were offering was bad? I’ve never actually had this experience but I’m having a hard time imagining the pay is great and someone is actually mad a qualified candidate asked about it.

So at my current work Prior to working when I went in for the interview I was told to take my mask off and to consent to them recording which I did because I didn’t really mind so skipping everything we were talking about my wages working there which he stated and wrote on paper that I signed saying I’ll start at 18/hr and also was said so the camera can hear it time skip to me leaving bc that job was shitty(security guard) I realized when I got my last check it said that I was getting paid $16 an hour and when I contacted them a week later I asked if I could see the original paper of what my wages were going to be and they said they lost the paper I said OK can I see the video recording that you guys did during the interview…

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how much money Elon Musk’s net worth would come out to per day if he lived for over 2,000 years up until the start of this year. If he acquired his wealth over this amount of time, he’d be making over $323,000 per day. Over $323,000 every single day for over 2,000 years would get him to what his net worth is today! Other billionaires aren’t far off from this either. It’s difficult to perceive a number this big so I hope this gives you all some perspective on just how much the working class is being exploited.

Grinding myself away day after day has finally broken me. Ive busted my ass for years pulling consistent 60 hour weeks yet no employer ever pays me enough to survive. I have to beg just to make the last of my rent let alone for food money ever since my stamps got cut. I did everything i was told, work hard, smile, always be looking for new opportunities, and still it ends in homelessness. Not by any choice of mine but by having a shit spawn. How the hell can i be expected to keep up with this shit? How can anyone advocate for our current system? Why should we destroy ourselves for those who already have so much? I cant find a way out of this hell.

This is a little long, but it connects to /antiwork. I come from a working-class white family that is very affected by multigenerational trauma, substance abuse, mental illness, disability, and poverty. Some of my relatives are the people described in Angus Deaton and Ann Case's book “Deaths of Despair”: working-class people without college degrees who perceive their long-term economic prospects as bleak and are experiencing high rates of death by suicide, alcohol use disorder, and overdose as a result. (No disrespect meant there.) Due to family dysfunction, I left childhood with serious PTSD from physical violence and emotional abuse. I got well with a lot of hard work and some good luck. (Importantly, while one side of the family is working class/poor, the other side is middle class, and this positioned me to access clinical care I needed.) In time, I've managed to build an interesting life and career, with…

Im absolutely fking sick and tired of Catering industry feeling like they own us. I work (for now) in a busy pub that’s constantly under staffed and over booked and I’m losing my patience with the way this st is run. When they take too many bookings, we’re expected to work all the way through the day without any rest, or food. I absolutely lost it at work and started ranting about not being a slave and wanting a fair work environment, but my co workers are too spineless to speak up so everyone looks at me like an idiot. I just left my section with all the tickets still on, cause i was 4 hours late for my break. Fk this industry with it’s st pay, long hours and never ending overtime.