Author: Olivia

That’s like the entire day. Why do I have to get up at the crack of dawn? Why do I have to sit at a desk and enter names into a spreadsheet for 8 entire hours? Why do I not get paid enoygh to move out of my parents’ house at 29? Why?

All the risks and none of the rewards. I work in chemical handling; we're talking hazmat suit, respirator, and barrels of neurotoxin and acid. My wife is a nurse aide in a psychiatric ward; we're talking covid, shingles, piss, shit and former murderers and rapists. I've had my lungs irritated by gas leaks, skin burned by splashes. My wife has been punched, scratched, stalked, and even had a table hurled at her. She currently looks like Anakin with a huge scratch on her face. I work 12 hrs, she frequently works 16 hours, night shifts for both of us. I've had to watch her sob from exhaustion and the emotional pain of constant racial insults from the patients. We should be sleeping all day, making doctor visits and grocery shopping a special kind of hell. And how much are we compensated? She gets $22/hr, I get $24. We have enough…

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