Author: Olivia

How do you guys find hope? I can’t really find any hope and I think that I’m not going to live for much longer because I can’t cope with what’s required to be an adult in America in 2023 . Is killing myself just the logical choice? I don’t know what to do.

So Merlin is all about Arthur getting a proper education. He teaches him, with songs, about how he needs to be smart and take action for himself and not just leave things up to chance and call it his fate. He puts Arthur's chores on auto-pilot with magic, and when it goes wrong Arthur gets fired from being a squire, so Merlin basically tells him to just get educated first and everything will work out from there. Fast forward toward the end of the movie and Arthur gets his squire job back and he's pumped that he gets to go to London, and Merlin absolutely loses it, telling him it's not a position to be proud of.. maybe he's right about the job in general but Arthur's just an orphan starting on the bottom happy that he made *some* progress. Fast forward again and Arthur pulls the sword from the…

Context: I’m on salary and they are not. We were both doing the same task but separately. 4:30pm was quickly approaching and I needed to get back to base, park my machine up and then go home from there. They carried on until 7pm. Next morning, they give me shit for not staying back and doing more work! – we are literally doing the same task today because it’s going to take 3 days anyway. It wasn’t as if we could do an extra 30mins and complete the task. I have no incentive whatsoever to work more than my contractual hours. Unlike them, I don’t get overtime pay. In fact, I keep a spreadsheet to log my hours and it automatically calculates my running £/h rate. If that falls below what I consider my worth to be, then I take time off to compensate. Know your worth people and don’t…

I want to know, I see a lot of posts talking about how the whole system is just the carrot and the stick analogy but it seems lately we’re getting more stick and less carrot. How are things getting better? Are we doing something about the economy/business industry in the U.S? Not even one hour of work is enough to pay for 1 meal nowadays, everything’s just getting more and more expensive and I just want to know what we’re doing about it and how we’re fixing it? Sorry if I come off a little naive, I am new to working as a whole and have come to realize how much I despise the system as a whole.

After already working 4 days and 30-35 hours – people are exhausted and their productivity is at best at 50%. Everyone is just waiting for the weekend. Everyone would be much happier if they could work just 30-35 hours and have 3 days of. The profit loss would be minimal but I guess these last 5-10 hours at half or one third productivity cannot be compromised.