https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJBMZx6EN5Lc72SUnGbP9GlMFsN0nvczA6RTjpza-dCoSfJw/viewform Also: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Aaaand: The Senate hasn't voted yet (not that I expect them to do anything but force the settlement on the workers) but you may phone the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you request.
As a Brazilian this whole discussion is absurd. Here, we all have sick days. Not unpayed, full compensated sick days. Everyone. It's law. You have a medical order saying you can't work? Stay at home bro. If it's for more than 15 days, the federal government will pick up the slack and pay tour wages in form of a “sick insurance”. For as long as it takes. And, in the meantime, you're protected from firing, and in the months following your return. It's madness in the US. It really makes on think, its very easy to have a big economy and produce hundreds billionaires when you're making it all at the backs of the labour class.
This was my favorite community , until recently , Now I keep seeing neoliberals posting in r/antiwork How to spot one: They blame workers, Trumper's being their favorite , instead of corporations/billionaires. They'll usually start with “Why do so many vote against thier own interest…blah, neoliberal lie, blah…” The U.S. is an Oligarchy (Has been for 50 YEARS) and voting has NO, NONE , NADA affect on policy. Billionaires get what they want regardless of which party is in charge. There's several peer reviewed studies providing this evidence . Capitalists/Billionaires and Capitalism is 100% the problem and NOTHING ELSE!
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Am I crazy for seeing it this way? I know this isn’t how it ends up working out but what are civil servants if not to ensure the government continues to work for its people? At least on paper. It seems people will either think of a given representative as some sort of ruler/authority figure or some weird celebrity, and then form an opinion of them based around this persona. I wonder if this dynamic will ever change. We can vote them in, we can vote them out, we pay them through our taxes and expect a return on that in the form of a functioning society. It makes sense to me to look at it as an employee/employer relationship.
I hate work so much. Toxic clients and managers expecting stuff to be done with a huge number of unknowns each with their own nontrivial issues to fix. I can't sleep and the adrenaline is rushing so hard I can feel my heart press out against my chest. Can't sleep and it just gets worse with every day
A few days ago, we got hit with a massive snow storm. The entire town was closing up shop, including offices in the same industry as mine. Our entire main street (where I work) let their staff go home early by 12:30pm. My boss didn’t let us go home until 3:30pm (a whole whopping hour earlier than usual). We had no clients coming in (they all cancelled) and so my co workers and I spent the afternoon watching car accidents out our windows and doing (non-urgent) paperwork. When my boss finally let us go, she was the first one out the door! I barely made it out of the parking lot before I had to swerve out of the way to miss an oncoming pick-up truck sliding in my direction and went head on into a sign street (which thankfully, saved me from going head on into a brick wall…