Author: Olivia

I have a friend of the family that owns a business and told me I can just increase my time worked for them indefinitely to explain the employment gaps

TL:DR Where are the people at the top who aren't heartless assholes and want to see the working class live better? Why don't we see them participating more on this subreddit? Why are we finding it, as the much larger percentage of disadvantaged people compared to the minority of wealthy, so difficult to effect positive change? I see a lot of us folks posting and commenting here are in the same boat. Underpaid, overworked and highly unappreciated. But there has to be some folks on here out of the 1.7 million plus members who work white collar jobs, or are headed in that direction that share our values and sentiments. Where are y'all at? Why does it seem to be so difficult to effect positive change when the working class is what keeps our economy running? Where are all the left wing idealist liberals who could effect positive social change…

I’m not sure where else to put this. My wife’s (27) fed loan ($20,000+) just got off loaded to a third party (semi owned by the feds). I feel that this may be an attempt to offload federal student loans before the forbearance is up and/or offload to reduce the number of loans to “forgive” in a federal student loan forgiveness. May be nothing; just wanted to share our experience. Edit: The loan is being transferred to “Nelnet”

No big important point, just saying, I’m not raising or making their underpaid labor force. Capitalism treats everyone like shit but women get criminalized and targeted especially for unpaid exploitation under capitalism. A baby is a shackle and a chain in America. The state uses babies and families to exploit and control women and female bodies of childbearing age. The state will use the threat of abusing your babies in foster care to control and exploit you and keep you in poverty, rather than make child care an institution. The white boomer 70s feminist agenda of “women in the workplace” didn’t help families prosper except for a small group of Regan era girl bosses, it made working women poorer because it gave an influx of underpaid labor to shitty service jobs. Those jobs don’t have benefits or child care. They are worthless drains of time. Fuck your lean in, girl…

I've followed this subreddit for months and this is the first place I've had the lady balls to speak out in. I'm really not even sure if this is the appropriate sub, but I'm curious about something. I'm just shy of 31 years old and have 15 years or customer service/retail exp under my belt and I'm fucking done. For the entirety of 2021 I was a store manager in a tea shop and thought, “Finally, I've made it. I deserve this. I've earned it.” It was fucking bullshit. Having my handful of employees constantly upset and coming to me for this and that (mostly drama), upset about their pay (which I had zero control over), and never truly having say about how I ran things because the owner had another store just an hour away and was constantly up my ass. I was never offered salary despite constantly taking…

As a 22-year-old college student, I am staring graduation in the face and preparing to enter the workforce. I felt like I did everything right. I got a 4.0 throughout my college years held multiple internships and a job during college. Everything was supposed to come together. At first, I was very excited to pave my way. I began applying for employment with an over-the-top amount of enthusiasm. However, over the next six months, my excitement has started to change. I interviewed for countless jobs and was told the same thing. Either they did not want me, wanted me to work insane hours, or offered me enough money to sit near the poverty line. Many jobs even ask for me to work for six months to a year unpaid before considering me. (Sounds insane, I know, but I am sure many others my age will agree) I began to feel…

I worked for for a previous employer for nearly 9 years. It was union work and I spent 4 years of my apprenticeship with him and was a foreman for 5 years after that. He was an asshole on purpose to so many people… but, because I just so happen to be autistic at being a foreman (almost literally), he made a metric sh*t ton of money off of me; so he left me alone. It was nice to have him on my side when the superintendents and/or engineers wanted to push me around but I hated how he treated some of his own guys. I tried to protect them as much as possible but he loved to constantly stir up sh*t for no reason. For example, we started a new project which requires us to demolish (demo) a lot of the existing building first. The superintendent, who had been…