I'm so sick of working. My wife and I put our hearts and bodies into these companies to be good employees and still struggle to make ends meet. My wife and I are both transgender and publicly came out in 2021. My wife was friends with everyone at her job, and was in particular very close to management. After she came out, they made her life a living hell. My wife would come home suicidal because of the mistreatment from her managers and the amount of physical work they would put on her. They were all small things that were difficult to bring up because they're easily denied, but if you're any kind of minority I'm sure you can understand. They did not treat her like a human being anymore. And they fired her a few days before a two week paid vacation she had worked there for YEARS to earn, and so she could finally get some rest from the full time daily mistreatment. Their reasoning? Policy change regarding breaks/attendance. She had a thing on her workapp that tracked when she had a violation and she was in zero danger of being fired. They said they were using a new system. She asked why she was not informed. They shrugged. She asked if they'd fire everyone else. Shrug. And now they are withholding the final paycheck because “She is out of the system” and will not give us a letter of termination so we can apply for an emergency fund so we do not become homeless (I was incredibly sick last month and had a vehicle emergency and it drained our emergency savings) because of the same reason. It is horrific that she has been an incredible employee for years and this is how they treat her. She has kept a catalogue of the discrimination and is documenting all of this to try and take it to HR. But honestly? I don't have much hope.
At my job it isn't much better. I have a coworker who tells everyone daily that he is going to bring his gun to work one day and shoot me. He has been vocal about raping women. Somehow he is not fired? And yet I missed one day due to my disability and am threatened with being fired immediately and called useless. I can barelt use my hands anymore and every day I am working I am in incredible pain just to be mistreated by customers, coworkers and management all day. And for what? To be homeless by March if we can't find better in our limited low income area as two transgender people?
And not only this. In both of our workplaces we notice the same kind of bullshit towards POC, disabled folks, queer in general… it's disgusting and I'm sick of it. I'm sick of suffering, spending all of my time at a job to not even make ends meet, and just being treated this way even when my wife and I have put our blood sweat and tears into our jobs.
We are disposable and we are nothing. And if we're not “normal” we're a freakshow to laugh at and poke with a stick.
I feel almost juvenile for feeling this way and being so damn upset. But like. Fuck.