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People keep blaming inflation on wages and it actually has nothing to do with wages, it has to do with stock. It's a combination of cutting costs for so long and having no way to artificially lower the price along with inflation and refusal to post lower profits. See because we have built everything to be about quarterly profits, the CEOs/boards will not accept lower profits because the stock goes down. They won't accept this because they literally live off of debt taken out using the stock as collateral. That's how they avoid paying taxes. So for them to buy anything new, they need those numbers to go up. That's the definition of inflation. Now that didn't effect normal goods, just assets. But like I said at the beginning, we are to the point where they can't keep profits up without raising prices. It doesn't have to do with wages,…

I’ve been the operations lead for my department for about 2.5 years now, with the company for a total of 4 years. Decent enough pay. Never had a problem paying the bills. But I couldn’t take it anymore. The bureaucracy, every two months corporate has some new process to implement. Management is incompetent and I’m always stuck being the only one to stand up for associates, solve problems, and put out the fires nobody else can. 80% of the job was bullshit and an absolute waste of time. Tired of driving an hour away, tired of 40h a week. Tired of being tired, over and over and over. So, I scheduled to use all my PTO, take a couple weeks off, and now I’m starting my own business. I’m ready to work for myself and not be constantly wiped out. To hell with the corporate job. That job will burn…

Hi guys Let me preface this by saying I have a lot of anxiety regarding my job due to prior conflicts which resulted in me taking medication and counselling and issues I am still dealing with today. I work for a very small local business in the UK (5 employees total including boss). Due to this, it's one of them “we're like a family” places to work. My boss brought up an open day that the building our business is hin is having on Saturday. It was only brought up very casually as in “oh by the way there's a thing on Saturday”. This was two weeks ago. Today I was told by my deputy boss that everyone would be in on Saturday to work this open day. When I asked him if we were being paid he became visibly annoyed and responded with “it's voluntary, no-one is forcing you…

Warning I am terrible at English although it is my first language. The Right has been defunding and discouraging the education of the masses for as long as I have been living and I am in my mid thirties. I’m not sure if they really believe it spreads leftists propaganda and/or if they want dumber adults. I just know philosophy 101, basic logic, was the most failed class of my university. I don’t care about CRT and other stuff when the basics are gone. I taught physics labs for college students of all levels throughout undergrad and grad school and my main focus was to help them problem solve. As the years progressed students have become less computer savvy and have required more help in general. I don’t know how many times I have had to plug in something because a student didn’t notice. But we have always heard how…

Every last penny I don't spend on bills and necessities goes into the lottery. It's my one chance at happiness. (Im actually up in slots, but the losses from other lottos are slightly higher so I've lost money in total) No matter what job ive had, I've had panic attacks at work. Getting on disability seems impossible. The stress has caused so many other issues with my body. I am fighting with my brain every single moment I am at work, debating just walking out and never coming back. But my bills say otherwise. The lottery is my only chance at hope. My only chance at joy. And at this point, if I don't win… I don't know what I will do. (While I may have suicidal thoughts, I won't act on them. I have people I hold dear and I can't do that to them. But that doesn't mean…