Author: Olivia

There's a strange country where everyone walks from morning to night. They don't even know where they're going, why they're walking so much. “If you don't walk – you don't eat,” the saying goes. (You must also be walking to be worthy of the attention of healers – the apparent contradiction going noticed but unacknowledged.) A citizen's greatest hope is to live long enough to earn the right to be carried on the backs of the procession. However – because child rearing is difficult in a society that demands so much walking – some have noticed a disturbing trend. Every year there are more people old or broken from their walk and fewer to carry them. (Not to be worried for their leaders have a plan; a great human pyramid must be constructed so that many carry a few who carry still fewer, and so on. In this way the…

I graduated as software engineer and worked in that field for several years. At the beginning the hours were long but the salary was really good and after work I felt really free and comfortable, I loved the job. But since 2021 my salary increase were consistently lower than inflaction, I got an insane amount of mandatory extra hours and a sequence of absolutely crazy managers who didn't understand where their authority end. I changed severe different megacorps and everyone was a copy of the other, it starts good and soon after they lower the quality. I searched for other jobs in the same field but simply the salaries were lower than what I did when I was an undergraduate or the companies asked for extremely long hours for just a normal salary. I quit and stated working in retail. The salary is low as I expected, instead I was…

This is a thing that happened to my auntie, lets call her Ana. Happened in Brazil, Ana applied to a job near home, a automotive workshop managed by an family, Ana was supposed to be an assistant but ended up managing the place, solving every sort of problem (yet receiving an assistant salary) but the owners were damned persons, they would fight, the husband would beat the wife in the upstairs office, their son would treat people like shit, including my auntie. And the thing just kept getting bigger and complex, the family did humiliate my auntie for several years, the worst was the son. And she didnt quit, she stayed there during 15 years, being emotionally abused, humiliated, having her dignity throwed at the trash, treated like the dog turd flies (Brazilian expression, may not work in english). She quits after an severe burnout, Ana has developed Panic, Anxiety,…

I was recently laid off from my procurement job of five years. It seemed off to me at the time but the company cut me a severance and told me they wouldn’t dispute my unemployment claim. I think this was in an effort to keep me quiet. A couple months prior to me being cut loose one of the confounders of the company was recommending to some coworkers of mine the internet documentary series “Europa – The Last Battle” which is pretty infamously neo nazi propaganda. After discussing it with my wife we decided the thing to do was to look the other way to maintain employment. Then probably a week or two before I was let go the topic of Israel came up in open conversation with the cofounder who was spreading the nazi propaganda. I let it be known that I was married to a Jewish woman to…

How is the situation with doctors in terms of work? Which doctor specialities have the best work-life balance? Is a family practitioner with more time than let's say a rheumatologist? Can a doctor choose the working hours in a week he has e.g. By saying that he will work for 30 instead of 40 hours a week?