Author: Olivia

Hi all. I am a 30 year old deaf guy from Africa working as a teacher in a special school for deaf/mute children. I actually love the work but the pay is terrible and destabilizing to my life. I can't afford shit, I can't afford to support my parents, I can't afford to save money and I live paycheck to paycheck. Being deaf means that it's difficult for me to get job opportunities in other fields of work. I am always one financial mistake away from being caught up in a crisis. Damn it!

I'd been working for this game studio for more than 10 years. A few years ago it was bought by a group company, but the CEOs kept their independence in leading and decision making. The bosses were always more or less authoritarian and paternalistic, but the pay was alright and it was really convenient for me because my husband also works there. We are (were) both very efficient, with unique skills for our department, but he is way more appreciated, be it for being a man, be it for being more diplomatic than me. With the recent advancements in AI, the CEOs rushed to ride the wave of AI generated game content and ordered us to use Stable Diffusion for anything and everything and to buy the premium version of ChatGPT – with our own money. They told us indirectly that if we didn't follow the orders we'd be let…

After getting daily bullying and being called words for minor and correctible things such as doing a typo (I work in a foreign language), not staying to work till midnight, not finding an email on the spot, trying to propose some new ideas, not doing things I was never told about and receiving zero training on a software I learned by myself from scratch I finally had it. As i got to work this morning and was greeted by a ‘this is not good’ email on a submitted project that met all the requirements and was delivered on time, I rectified accordingly to his request, printed the file and left it on his desk, delivered my keys, got up and left. In my last email I wrote ‘I may not be a perfect employee but one day my skills in x,y,z will be better while you, you will always stay…

owning your own business does not count for this discussion as doing (mostly) whatever you want is usually best. I think I have had much better outcomes the times I have had corporate gigs rather than jobs at small businesses. In my experience, small businesses pay a lot less, no benefits, less vacation, and you usually have to kiss ass to get a small raise. Hell, my last job paid about $13.00/ hr.(with a monthly commission ceiling, about $10/ hr. without), so even a whopping $8/ hr. raise or so would still be less than you could get at a WFH without all the ass kissing and not guaranteed outcome. Vacation was also one week. No room for promotion as the people who are at small businesses usually stay there for years if they do not get fired; bossman isn't gonna “make” a new position for you to pay you…

First, disclaimer: I'm not american, and I can't get involved in American affairs, but I firmly believe if any strong social movement came from America, its going to ripple across the global corporate empire. Hence why I'm posting this. You guys HAVE TO mobilise You can post about shitty bosses, anti-worker media articles, low wages, corrupt politicians all you want, but you won't achieve much without action. Create parties, organize meetings, push an agenda, protest bad policies, make online groups. Be. Active. Edit: Unions are a start, but are not enough. They can just help the employees of one company at worst and one industry at best. If you need something on a national scale, you need more than just individual unions

He’s a billionaire i could get behind

Whats the best excuse? Indont usually call off but tomorrows slow and i want a mental health day. Whats your go to?