Author: Olivia

As a European, I have to say that I find tips absolutely disgusting. I would hate for that to ever become a thing in my country. Oh, your boss doesn't pay you enough? That's the client's fault, they should reward you personally! Ugh. Like I see people here comment stuff about how they're being paid “11$/hr+tips, so 16$/hr” and I'm here baffled by how tips are basically essential to their lives. It's truly sickening. I wish tips just didn't exist and workers just received the right pay for the value that they produce and should rightfully own.

I often hear that raising wages would cause inflation. If this is really true then it just shows that our economic system sucks and really isn't as great as its proponents say it is. If America really is the greatest country on Earth and capitalism really is the greatest economic system then it should be able to provide the common person with a basic standard of living.

Matthew Stafford and his whole family die and the way home from the game and the fire recharged hes the worst person that ever existed dad Matt stafford died

Thought this belonged here. Special education is one of the most exploitative fields to work in. Folks with masters degrees working 60 hours a week are making 40-60k if that, while being constantly berated by employers. Behavior technicians and paras work on the front lines dealing with severe problem behaviors, all while barely making minimum wage. Anyone else in the anti work movement in sped?

My work history is this: get a job that is underpaid, work hard, burnout, get resentful, quit, then have to scramble to find another also low paying job, repeat cycle My work history is extensive and varied. I’ve always been sort of a free spirit and I do not dream of labor. I have mental illness which I am working really hard on managing, but I am trying to be more proactive about avoiding burnout so when I interviewed with my current job and they mentioned that there would be no overtime required and everything that I had to do could be managed within work hours I was stoked. I felt like for once I wasn’t just scrambling for a check. But then I started working, and within a month my boss started dropping hints about various coworkers who like to stay late so they can finish up tasks or…

Hey. I'm looking to unplug from the system more and more. I've got one piece of the puzzle solved. I'm self-employed. I'm a contractor/skilled trade/whatever you want to call it. I work on people's houses. I make about… $300-800 a day. $300 is a kind of light day, could be done in as little as 2 hours. $800 I'm busting butt pretty much the whole day. I live in a MCOL area. Florida to be exact. It's DEFINITELY not as cheap as it once was… actually, the exact location I'm at is not cheap at all… it's not California expensive but it's not inexpensive I'm definitely going to have to move to another city if I want to make this dream a reality. ​ I'm thinking of moving about an hour away and just commuting to my work service area. Spending like 100-150k (150k absolute max. the less the better…