Author: Olivia

A day or two ago someone (I believe a Swede) posted a question, basically asking why we in the US don’t revolt more aggressively against working conditions. At one point in the post, OP mentioned passingly something to the effect of “life SUCKS here for other reasons”, referring to their home country of Sweden. Would love to get some perspectives from this community. Wondering if people can share what sucks about living in countries like Sweden. I’ve heard taxes make buying things like cars prohibitively expensive, for example. i presume working conditions are better? I wonder what exactly that person was referring to… OP if you see this, would love to get your thoughts!! What other things have people experienced? in what ways is life/work better or particularly worse than in the US? note: I’m not sure if I use the term democratic socialist exactly correctly, hoping my point/question is…

Hey all, I don’t normally ever post at all but this particular incident has just fueled me enough to rant about it somewhere. A little context, my place of work is a novelty store mixed smoke shop and is quite popular in my area, there’s a lot of other locations in my state and it’s only getting bigger. The CEO, and the managers all love telling their employees that they should treat this job as a career and the usual capitalistic BS that all retail pushes on their employees, even though we make $10 per hour. There is technically commission, which they call our “bonus”, which, I asked what the rate was to which my boss literally said “it’s a percentage”. Which I figured out is about 1.5% sales, for employees only, bosses make way higher. They even limit us, sales don’t go under our name unless it’s about less…

Just had to sit through a 3 hour mandatory training night after a full shift to hear about how great my company is, there amazing values and there pledge for a sustainable future…. I get paid minimum wage.

So I'm hopefully going into the trades soon, I have many friends in skilled trades who smoke weed or used to, weed is 100 percent legal for recreational use in canada and I have never run into any issues with testing myself, I had an interview today and the interviewer said that she spoke to someone who worked 7 days on 7 days off, on his off days he smokes weed as is his right, he came back after his 7 days off and they tested him randomly, he tested positive for weed of course because it can stay in ur system for weeks. Of course he wasn't actually high at work or anything, but he still was suspended until he tests negative, took him 9 weeks without pay to test negative and he was finally allowed back. Has anyone else in canada or anywhere where weed is legal for…

Just curious if anyone else has left a toxic environment that paid high to leave for a job that pays less(better benefits) but a $10 hour pay cut.

Over the course of the pandemic I decided to retire from a 15 year career as a chef and try to find something that suited my families time instead of some rich asshole that just wants me to help them get richer. This was the final straw in why I hung it up for good. I was an Executive Chef for a nationwide chain. The job required a ton of my time and overall being, I was barely home and when I was I was sleeping or working more. This company was bought out in a huge deal and overnight everything changed. Positions were eliminated, they kept trying to get me to take a pay cut, the list goes way fucking on. So, I started looking for a new gig. I got hooked up with a well known Chef and restaurant group looking to fill an executive position and it…