Author: Olivia

I (30m) feel very done with the gas station I work at. Many of the coworkers there are some of my best friends and I know the work very well-I just can't take it anymore. The shifts gossip about other shifts all the time, people don't show up for their shifts frequently, turnover can be high and I'm constantly having to deal with ornery customers. Plus, there is a new assistant store manager that actually threatened several people with “contacting HR” for extremely minor things. One of those employees was on the phone with her mom for all of 5 minutes in a dead traffic moment of the shift. The other has a legitimate, documented medical condition that the manager weaponized to say they could be fired over it! I make $16 an hour there but I am not considered a manager. I've been offered but I just don't want…

People with money, by definition, decide if you're going to be a carpenter or a prostitute (see the title). They decide if your labor is going to be used to create new wealth (houses, infrastructure, factories, schools), or if you're going to be spreading your legs for a 300 pound greaseball you just met who doesn't want to use a condom. This is where literally all of my objections to the current system arise. Hedge funds could be using their massive financial power, their power to decide what millions of us do for a living, to drive us into professions that increase the wealth of the human species. What did they give us instead? Administrative bloat. Useless jobs. Or worse, we're creating stuff that actively makes the world a shittier place. Private prisons. The tobacco industry. Instagram. Hedge funds had the financial superpowers to be the heroes of our society.…

She’s basically been serving as the paralegal for a family owned law firm for the past two years on top of being the office admin and a veritable accountant to boot. She comes home on lunch breaks/at the end of the day in tears. She’s miserable, doing the jobs of five people for $54k a year. She’s always had a bad case of “eldest daughter” syndrome, and her workplace takes full advantage of that, but not anymore! It’s not even that her boss is particularly terrible, it’s just everyone decides to fuck off and pile the work on her. The actual paralegal hasn’t been back to the office in almost 2 years, shouldering her with all his shit, and yet he gets paid nearly $10k more than her?? Make it make sense. She’s sticking it out for a month more to stay on health insurance and get some stuff squared…

Rohnert Park School District is holding students and teachers hostage. The dedicated teachers are working without a viable contract. The proposed contract only includes a 7% guaranteed wage increase over the next 3 years and one time “bonus” of $2K. This is while housing costs in this community have increased by over 20%. The current rental cost of a one bedroom is $2,263. Most of Rohnert park school teachers have more than one job, they often bartend, coach, work at local breweries, etc. These educators love their students but this exploration must end. Rohnert Park school teachers are eligible for state and community subsidies for housing! These teachers must have a degree and be credentialed to be in the classroom yet they are living in poverty. At a time when school teachers are offered pennies the administration has continued to increase their salaries, as a % of salary per head…