Author: Olivia

Seriously wtf im doing with my life?

This is just a dumb vent abt capitalism and ~society~ so feel free to scroll I hate this economy so much. The fact that I need to work two jobs that are barely above minimum wage terrifies me. I'm only 20. I haven't even gone to college yet because my family lost so much money bc of covid. I have ONE day a week where I'm off and that's not even guaranteed because they're short staffed at my new job (hence, why they hired me) and I said I would be available on call. I was SOBBING to my girlfriend about how I couldn't find another job and I need the money to SURVIVE (god that alone is awful), but now I'm not sure which is worse. Leeching off of my already financially unstable parents while making a barely livable wage, or work a slightly more liveable wage working 60…

I lost my job at the beginning of December after my boss threatened to “come down and kick my f******” head in” for speaking over the top of him on a four way phone call. I had an incident like this when I was a teenager, where a boss entered my home and attacked me. Because of this I refuse to work for someone like that. So after the threat, I quit. I've had no contact with the company throughout December. I was meant to be paid on Dec 31st but as of yet I haven't seen a penny. I've been calling and messaging the business manager (not the person who threatened me, that was the business owner) trying to get paid. The replies have been very scarce. Yesterday all I got all day was “I'll call you back”. Until the owner decide to phone me several times to threaten…

I received an email saying that we can no longer call out of work, no matter the circumstances, without using our vacation days (if we even have them). Im located in Maine, is this for real?

How can people discern what the outcomes would be like? We might need some new economic systems altogether. Perhaps the future is project-based, and perhaps it will focus more on research and discovery.