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Average two bedroom around me is 1500 a month. Having crazy anxiety cause any potential job I’m qualified for wouldn’t be enough on paper to rent anywhere. I have a child who needs her own room. These housing prices are insane and sickening. Minimum wage should be $20 at the absolute minimum.

They took away everything that was supposed to make working life comfortable. They took away paid vacation, sick leave, bereavement leave, and retirement and told us that it was okay because that just meant we had to be extra hard working and extra creative. It meant we had to be the kind of people who made it happen. It meant we had to be industrious and full of grit and determination and optimism. It meant hustling and grinding and no days off. They took away our training wheels and it would make us become the best versions of ourselves. And when you're young and full of energy it's so easy to believe it. But then you do it for like 10 years, and you start to see the cracks in you. You start to break down. And then your mother-in-law dies and you realize that on top of working your…

If I can’t afford a ferrari, then I don’t buy a ferrari… If businesses can’t afford to pay workers a living wage and benefits, they shouldn’t start a business!

My mom married my dad at 21 and was a stay at home mother right up until their divorce at age 49. She was in and out of school for their entire marriage and now has 4 degrees. But every time she is asked about the time gap between jobs, and explains she was a stay at home mom, suddenly the 4 degrees are “outdated” and she would need to go back to school. She already has so much student loan debt and she can't even find a job in her field that will pay her what a person half her age would be getting paid with the same education. How is she supposed to retire? My dad is an engineer and it was enough to support all 4 of us, now my mom can't even find a job in medicine that will support her alone. She can't even declare…

I’m 31 weeks pregnant and usually WFM full time but yesterday we had a mandatory day in office. I got up to get a cup of coffee and was told by no less than 4 men (in my male dominated industry) ‘you can’t have coffee you’re pregnant.’ I explained the limit of caffeine mg to the first, ignored the 2nd, snapped at the 3rd, ‘the fuck I can’t’ and asked the fourth if they knew from personal experience. I let them know yesterday would be my last day in office post baby and honestly hope HR contacts me about my bad attitude so I can explain how 4 different men thought they could tell a 31 week pregnant woman what she can and can’t do with her own body. It’d be different if they ASKED or said something like ‘I didn’t know you could have caffeine’ but no. Just the…