Author: Olivia

Like every single day, business needs to function. I look at all these communities, apartments, neighborhoods, cities, gas stations , malls, etc, and we are all just committed to our jobs because we need them to survive. But imagine what we all could be doing if we worked less and had more community? We would all be socializing, meeting new people, partying, having fun and exploring hobbies. I believe we can do so much more than our capitalist societies.

I teach at a public university of 35k students and is pretty well known. Got a new contract and they want to keep the pay at 3k per class while raising the cap to 100 students per class. Don't get a TA either. The worst part is dealing with so many students while me fighting the urge to yell “I don't make enough money to deal with this.” It's depressing and I just want to leave higher education altogether.

I do, just wondering if anyone feels the same

That's it. That's the post. I (as a disabled person myself) understand some ppl rely on tipped services and cannot afford a tip/large tip and I'm literally not talking to them. I also understand that in some countries/situations tipped employees are paid a fair wage. I'm not talking to you, a consumer in that situation, either. (But TBH never understood the argument “tipping works like THIS in my country so I will shut down all discourse from servers in another country where it works completely differently”. I also never understood how people are so confident that all servers in their region are being paid so well). But like whatever. This post ultimately isn't for you, although you are annoyingly and harmfully shutting down important conversations when you apply your situation everywhere. I'm talking to people who use tipped services in places where workers are not paid a living wage and…

My(16f) aunt does not work and lives off of disability. She's admitted that she could have a job but chooses not to and I know of a lot of people who also do that. I work 5 days a week and I have a lung condition that causes air to leak out into my sternum and causes extreme pain and I've often had to work while in complete agony because it happens so suddenly and unpredictably that I can't afford to call off or leave every time it happens. Days like that are genuinely hell and honestly I'm likely going to be one of those people who live off of disability because of the pain It causes at work. I still work with the pain while people like my aunt just stay home all day and it makes me so angry.