Author: Olivia

TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS Hello Everyone, I hope you guys don’t mind if I rant here a bit. I’ve been spiraling into a deep depression for months now, and I’m extremely desperate. I’ve completely lost hope for a better life or a halfway decent future. Here it goes… I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree in December of 2018. In April of 2019, I got a job in mental health. My degree is in psychology. I have been there almost three years, and I only make $18.65 an hour. I know someone who has worked at Walmart for only a year and yet she makes $17 an hour. She makes almost as much as me, and I have a college degree! I took on all of this student loan debt for THIS?! When my mom was home, we were making ends meet. She receives disability due to declining health. She went…

You deserve better.. That job is not treating you right. There ARE jobs that treat you right. They may be hard to come by. (Let's keep it real) but keep searching. You'll find it. Best of luck.

I got picked up this week by a company working in installing lights and sound for events. I have done this work for 5+ years and I’m good at it. It’s high attention to detail, long and weird hours but I enjoy it. What I don’t enjoy is yesterday I accepted my first shift which was meant to start 2130 tonight. I got confirmation for 2130, including location, but for some reason no confirmation for a much earlier shift at 10:00 this morning which I had no idea was even on offer. I slept all morning knowing I’m going to be working all night, only to wake up to a bunch of calls and a text saying “don’t worry about tonight. We found someone to cover your shifts. So I have a sneaking suspicion I’ve been blacklisted from working with said company, for not rocking up to a shift I…

I'm working full-time and every time I open the store, I have to print out like 3 or 4 pages of price changes. It's always price increases. Seeing things going up in price everyday is affecting me more then I thought it would. It's wild that things can just become more expensive everyday.

I'm 22 and haven't been to school since I got my high school diploma. This puts me in the position to only have entry level jobs available to me and I can't keep a job for more than a few months because they're too mentally and physically taxing for me. I see people on this sub advocating for people to find jobs that treat them well and I'm not sure that's an option for me. I'm at the point now that the idea of working gives me anxiety and I have a pretty shitty work history of either being fired or quitting. I guess I just need some advice.

I just feel like several small groups of people demanding conditions improve won't be enough, the upper crust of society has ways to reinforce the system in such a way that it won't fundamentally change things. No, what I feel would be the best solution to our issues is a general strike, no burgers get flipped, no factories pump out goods, no bank tellers handing out money, no fucking production, servicing, financing or contribution to the exploitive, all devouring beast of modern work culture and capitalism that demands all bow and bleed before a small elite who hold all the cards and live large while the rest of us are priced out of homes and families and a future consisting of anything other than mere joyless survival deprived of joy or plenty or anything aside from constant unending toil and labor until you drop dead with your pension having been…

My employer is requiring everyone to return to the office in the coming weeks, as we’ve been working from home for the past two years. Many resources to help with the transition have been provided by HR, including on the topic of mental health. I began perusing the resources and got to a handout entitled “The Four P’s of a Successful Return to the Workplace”. This handout was written by the mental health benefits provider that my employer pays for resources, such as this handout. The first “P” was “Practice Gratitude” which on the whole, I find as a useful practice. Examples were given on how one could practice gratitude in the process of returning to the office. The first example: “Instead of thinking ‘My commute is going to be an absolute nightmare and destroy my mood’, you can think ‘I’m thankful for the continued existence of my job and…

Just curious why seemingly one of the most important jobs where peoples lives r in your hands every day (that of a doctor/surgeon) seems to have the least sensical, borderline Kafkaesquely absurd tradition (requirement?) of literally pulling all nighters all the time ? I can barely write a coherent email after an all nighter but I guess heart surgery is different (?) I have many doctor friends and still haven’t heard a sensible answer. Anyone?