Author: Olivia

Found out he went out of his way to submit that I quit (never signed anything, no exit interview, not even a text). So my UI benefits are in “adjudication” limbo and I have no idea wtf I'm supposed to do. Google said it may be 45-60 days and that's probably pre-covid wait times. All because this idiot doesn't like my attitude because I wasn't a yes man. Not that management ever communicated shit anyway. They couldn't even get their stories straight between themselves. We would get 3 different orders. I really pray that I can appeal as there's no proof… but of course employees in the US have no rights. Good thing I saw this coming and had been internally referred to a job in another state that pays 5x the salary and is, quote, desperate for new hires. Oh wait, they rejected my application. After I moved. Guess…

I returned to work today after taking the day off yesterday because of various personal reasons.. tldr; my coworker’s a dick, I hardly take time off and work my fat ass off but here we are with yet another toxic work environment. I’m a full time, manager of a team that has been understaffed and overworked since October. I’ve also been working some form of over time since like..November most weeks because like everyone else right now, our team has been so short staffed and our leadership doesn’t give a shit and continues to push work to us. I take responsibility for me working OT. However, I deserve a little more respect from my colleagues for the below..not the shit toxic comment I received. I have managed thru a pandemic, a shit-ton of changing environments at work, a fucking snow/ice storm of the century in Texas, keeping my kid home…

“How did it happen? When and why did we as a society decide that human life is a commodity? A luxury? My mother passed away at 45. She still had decades of life to live until it was all stolen by her by common pneumonia. If she had held even the cheapest Trauma Team policy, she could have been cured within an hour. But she couldn't afford it. My mother died five months before her scheduled appointment with our family practitioner… The idea of privatized healthcare is deeply ingrained in our public psyche. Already in 2020, there was widespread consensus that 500 eurodollars a month was a fair price for Trauma Team insurance. Health wasn't something you were given, it was something you earned. The private system may not be perfect, but there's no alternative we thought. BULLSHIT. Now across the Pacific Ocean to the USSR where they also have…

If you have a moment swing by there and drop them a message about how you feel!

Assume the new normal was same pay, half time. So someone making $40K per year at 40 hours per week still makes $40K per year but only works 20 hours per week. Would the economy tank? Would productivity collapse? Would businesses close? What would the fallout be on a societal level? Do we really need to work 40 hours per week to sustain the economy?