Author: Olivia

As the caption says. I work in a very small manufacturing job in a fairly rural area. It’s pretty wack all around, but it required vaccinations which is pretty wild for where I’m at. I get paid 14 an hour and technically am full time. I haven’t had a full week of work since Christmas. There have been supply issues, met with ineptitude that have left us with nothing to consistently produce for months. On top of that they turn the heat off in the warehouse after every shift, making it insanely unpleasant every morning. I’m talking 38 degrees inside when we show up. The boss sits in his office with his space heater every day leaving me with my co-worker, who begins sneaking drinks at around 9 am and is fairly drunk by lunch. The chaos of that place is too much for me. Last week my coworker had…

I work with Medicare insurance and hate this crap. My job title is “member advocate” but there’s honestly very little I can do to help people since I’m not an insurance agent. My job is basically getting people to the right place. Call center crap, right? Anyway, I’m sitting there today, taking calls, when this dude comes on the line and starts cussing me out. Saying that we screwed him over on his plan and he wants to cancel it. We’re a broker, so plans have to be canceled by the carrier. I tell him this and he goes OFF. Pretty impressive, but anyway, I try and deescalate the situation and he says “I’m gonna blow your ***** brains out.” I don’t get paid enough to deal with crap like this. I’m a college student just trying to finish my freakin degree yet threats and downright rude behavior is crap…

With the increase in price and down sizing of a product equals more profits for the top 1%. So why can't we as Americans implement a wealth cap at say 50 million. Anything after that you would either need to invest surplus profits in to the company, a example would be replacing out dates machinery.Or they could use that surplus to increase employee wages. I bet if we did that the cost of living would go down and quality of life would go up. If we took greed out of the picture work life would be so much better