Antiwork

Tl;dr at the bottom My girlfriend took a job at this “finger lickin good!” place on Wednesday, and is planning to quit tomorrow. Aside from the breaks thing, there are a bunch of other problems that arose that she had issues with. Issues that have happened in only 5 days (and she never signed any sort of non-disclosure so we can freely tell you all of this): She was told to charge separately for sides and bonus drinks instead of adding then to the combo, because it costs the customer more that way (they specifically gave that as the reason). Was also told to charge a 16-piece of legs individually instead of as a bucket, for the same reason. Major language barrier. Everyone in the store is fluent in Spanish, but struggles with English. She has to repeat herself multiple times to get the STORE MANAGER to understand her when…

If this is the wrong place to post this I’m sorry but it seemed like the best place. As the title suggests I’m planning on finding a different workplace in the near future. I’m an EMT or Emergency Medical Technician in the field of Commercial ambulance. Think companies like AMR. I work for a smallish company in this field. It’s very demanding with 12 hour shifts and little to no breaks sometimes. Always in a hospital, or our ambulance driving, or a nursing home, etc, etc. I average around 250-300 miles a night sometimes. 4-5 different patients. The problem is this; the company I work for seems to the general staff to be disconnected with said staff. The pay is good but everything else is bad. Equipment were forced to work with is half broken. Benefits are nigh non existent. There is no communication with or from upper management. Ridiculousness…

Why go to college to learn you’ll despise your work once you graduate? People toil in factories in inhumane conditions, psychologically tear each other apart in offices. And for what?

Remember how America gained its independence to begin with? It wasn’t by protesting. It wasn’t by ignorantly voting a certain way. It wasn’t by burying your heads in the sand and hoping for the best. Writing snarky memes and tweets didn’t do it either. People got up. People got violent. It wasn’t comfortable. It wasn’t pretty. But it was necessary. Our founding fathers, who were by no means perfect, did have the foresight to see that this day could come again. Our constitution says we not only have the right, but the duty, to stand up to an oppressive and tyrannical government. It’s time to act. Sure, you’ve got a lot to lose. Most people do. But what kind of life are we going to have if we keep playing by the rules? Happy 4th of July.