Author: Olivia

Hi, this is my first time posting, so let me know if I'm doing anything wrong. I work as a security specialist for a maternity hospital in a lower income area. I've always taken great pride in my work by taking additional duties on that are not traditional for a worker of my caliber to do. This includes fixing high angle cameras and running cable for the hospital. Doing this for them, I have saved them “”Quite Literally”” hundreds of thousands of dollars. I have worked for the same hospital for 12 years, and in that time I have also personally performed over 280 arrests on trespassers, with around 60 of them later being convicted in court for provable malicious intent. In addition to making my security system a well oiled machine, I was also attentive to running it as such. I watched the security feeds myself. I didn't take…

I’ve seen various folks use this statement throughout this sub and I have a hard time understanding it. As I understand, the notion is: Working shouldn’t be required to provide your basic needs of living. From my perspective, you need to use your time to provide yourself value. The most valuable things we have is food and shelter so at a minimum you are providing a service, to make money, which is exchanged for food and shelter. So how do we abolish this? In theory, you could try to survive without any job at all working as a subsistence farmer My great grandparents immigrated from Scandinavia in 1900’s to the US. They bought cheap land, built a home from the timber on the property and farmed for their food. In this day in age they would be consider highly impoverished but, they were not employed by a business. I would…

Pierre Joseph Proudhon was a fuggin antisemite, broadly he was against all organized religion by force, and I was today years old when I found out. Mutualism was a really tight idea and all, it had its holes, but when the holes are filled with ethnic cleansing and the preservation of a half baked monetary system I checked out. I feel bad because I recommend mutualism to a bb anarchist and now I gotta either find out they turned on anarchy already because of this or tell them first that Proudhon hated Jewish people about as much as he hated the English, as a primary political focus. He concluded of his short letter entitled “On the Jews” with this statement and honestly it makes a lot of sense why Europe fell so in line with fascism and ethnic cleansing over anarchy so many times: “The hatred of the Jew like…

I have a longer post I've been meaning to write, but the short of it is that my work environment has become unbearable (weird home office environment, inappropriate boss, no HR department). I am paid so little that each day is a struggle to show up. I just found a suitable job paying almost 40% more and am chomping at the bit to apply. The problem is that I was a NEET before this, so I don't have anyone else who can write a recommendation letter for me. How long would you stay for a recommendation?

Looking for advice on how to handle myself and potentially get the biggest raise I can get. Just some background I work in the funeral industry and this Wednesday marks my year within the company. My day consists of cremating eight to twelve bodies along with some removals and drop offs. Typically I do most of the paperwork and come in early or stay late. I am one of four employees who work in the crematory. I am not physically strong (often needing help with larger bodies) but I am very detailed oriented. I currently am making 15.50$ but am hoping to get 17.50$. I get no health benefits or 401k.