And why you keep the earplugs in your ears any chance you got. Why you stay up late on the phone. I know also why you scroll through r/news or r/worldnews or r/collapse or antiwork maybe, waiting for a society breakdown, for a war or for anything – hoping for some kind of change, like a revolution. I know why majority of you flew to universities and read through the books all the time, labouring in fact. And nobody understands because if they knew how much you put to run away from being either totally enslaved by regular working class conditions or defeated and pushed into oblivion of homelessness they would weep for you and your frantic desperate efforts. Always occupied, never here and now. It's because I know, and you know – that your life doesn't belong to you. Place where you sleep doesn't belong to you. It's either…
Author: Olivia
Ex: If someone is making a million dollars a year for example, can you think of a potential scenario where such a person deserves their full million dollars? how about a billion a year? What is the smallest income for which you cannot provide a scenario for which said person deserves that money?
i hate my job, and i dont mean like. “oh yeah my job is a little hard but its okay!” no. no. no. no. my job is so dreadful that i feel actual hatred and i have a heavy chest when i go in. my managers are rude and disrespectful m, and you might say yeah thats every job. no im telling you,, my managers are abusive. theres Brenda and Mary. Mary has a temper and it could be from mental illness which i understand,, but she throws actual tantrums and yells at us, throws things and hits stuff when she gets upset. its like having an abusive parent and them stomping around the house causing a ruckus and taking it out on everyone bc they’re mad. the two managers love to bark orders at us and then go sit and do nothing. me and one other lady are the…
I have been working at a place for almost a year. I knew when I got hired that there would be some overtime. Not a big deal, I get that when there are deadlines or actual work to get done. I am almost into four weeks of mandatory overtime. We are expected to work an extra 1.5 hours Monday through Thursday. We are not allowed to take off. There isn't any immediate important work to do. I don't understand why we seem to be doing overtime for no reason. I am getting burned out and I am starting to make stupid errors due to being over tired. I just don't know if I should stick it out and hope it ends soon or look for something else. Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated.
Sometimes I find myself wondering what things have fundamentally changed, that have contributed to the huge numbers of homeless people we have now — other than the obvious, which is of course the obscene and unconscionable increase in the price of buying or renting a place. What I mean is, there have always been alcoholics and drug addicts; there have always been those with mental health issues; and, frankly, a few who just can't do the 9 to 5 thing. (no shame in that. I'm kinda that way myself.) But in the past, those folks wouldn't necessarily be on the street. Why is that? I know one big reason is that we closed many institutions caring for the mentally ill. A lot of them were hell holes, yes. But at the same time, I think the puritan notion of everybody as being “curable” is a problem. There are people who…
As the title reads. For context I am an assistant chef in Boston and went into my job this morning after being out for a week with COVID. I was never given a reason as to why I was being fired other than “we're moving in another direction.” I have never shown up late and have worked my 12 -13 hour a day shifts without complaint and bonded with all my employees. I did my duties working alongside the chef and was constantly praised for my good work. Our chef has been away for two weeks on vacation and I was out one week so I haven't seen him in three weeks. The owner demanded I be let go. I asked if it was COVID related and they denied it and could only offer me the explanation that they “are moving in a new direction.” Oh and they fired my…