Context if needed.
I'm your average college drop out who couldn't make it there for one of many reasons. I guess that's not too important but it's been roughly 10 years since I graduated high school and the only work I've ever done mainly boils down to factory and warehouse stuff.
It was not too bad at first to be honest but the more wise I became to all the bullshit the more irritated I got and the more frustrating it became as well.
It used to be not a big deal for me to bounce from one job to the next but it's different now. Especially since there's people who need me to be able to pay the bills in my life now.
It's been different since the pandemic, I think, it wasn't until then that I stopped being able to hold a job for more than a while. First it was not being able to last a year, then six months, then three and now recently it's been almost month to month.
Most of my jobs have been sourced from temp agencies and most of them have been pretty shit but I've done my best to push through that. I've even learned a skill to help broaden my horizons (reach truck and cherry picker operation, rabbit jacks too) but it's not really been fruitful.
I think I'm at the end of the temp agency rope, because I've been getting shittier and shittier jobs I've been running through them very fast, now I don't know if I'll be able to work anywhere else or for how long my newest job will last me.
It was odd at first feeling like it was just my fault and admittedly part of it is but part of my irritation is that it seems since the pandemic let up here in the states jobs have started wanting to cut people more and more and for less and less reasonable things to boot.
Some places have shit policies designed around this new philosophy too.
One place allowed only a two minute grace period for clock in times, and that was it. If it took you 3 minutes to piss and wash your hands or to get through security walking in the building it was automatically tallied against you. They didn't even give me a full last day either, they fired me AT LUNCH because HR was LEAVING EARLY that day.
One place only allowed you to call in sick or absent TWICE a YEAR as a temp and only FIVE times as a full-timer. Which meant when I called in once for being sick I was already on my way out, they fired me because I refused to drive to work during a windstorm that nearly pushed my van over as I was on my way in.
The last place I worked fired me for reporting my equipment being down due to running over a piece of wood I couldn't quite dodge on my equipment, it was the first major incident I had there and they'd been operating in that facility for over HALF A YEAR with NO matineice personnel qualified to work in the equipment, which is why they cut me, because I downed a RENTED piece of equipment that could have been fixed IN A DAY if they had the people there to do it.
But I digress.
What I want to know is what sort of avenues if any are there for me to get help or stabilize myself. I'm scared. I don't like working for places that treat me like garbage more and more from one year to the next but it's all I'm qualified to do.
I don't know what's going to happen to me if I lose this job.
I can barely afford to live nowadays since it's impossible to budget when you can hardly keep a job.
Any advice is helpful.
If you need info I'm living in Kentucky, an anti union “right to work” state.
It's fucking miserable here folks.