I work for the Alabama Community College System and I’m at the end of my rope after only a few years. I was hopeful and excited when I first got my job. I knew my work had meaning (or so I thought). The entire system is masquerading and fooling the public, but I see it for what it is: a giant polished turd.
We take so much money from students but offer so little. I couldn’t even volunteer for work outside office hours because the “A/C would cost too much”. I volunteered to help with a gala to bring in donations from rich people. I make $13 an hour at the largest community college in the state and offered to kiss rich person ass to make the bosses happy. I can’t even afford to live in an apartment. I can’t even afford my therapy session this Friday.
The VP of the college literally told me to go back inside our office building and get back to work during a bomb threat today. And I did. And I tried to tell people, and nobody seems to care. They evacuated the highest paid employees like the administration but wouldn’t let staff leave. I reached out to as many local news stations as I could, I posted in all relevant Reddit forms, local Facebook groups, I emailed our ‘union’, and nobody seems to give a shit.
I don’t know what to do from here. This job was supposed to be my stepping stone out of shitty dead end jobs and it’s just the same as all the others, but with a better name.