Antiwork

So i work in supply chain & the money isnt great but its not bad/is sufficient & there are periodic pay raises in first 2 years BUT the PTO/PT sucks. I mean u could pay me double or more & it wouldnt change my feelings. Whats point of getting paid like an exec if i cant occasionally splurge. This is why i will never stop beating the 4-10s is better than 5-8s drum. That 3rd day off is like a small vacay every week. People on here want a 32 hr work week & reality is that will never happen; i could see more places going to 4-10s w optional 5th day for OT as more realistic. /rant

Hello, I'm a 19 year old kid who has been working for the past 2 years. I have multiple health and mental conditions that make it difficult for me to work full time, but I do anyway in order to live. I continue this cycle of thought that I will never be able to live my life. That I'll never be able to get enough savings. People could do it before but with the price of everything now, why would I even try? What's the point if one car accident is going to set me back 10 years? I want to be able to do voice acting full time and live on the road with my partner and see all of the US, and then settle back down in oregon and start a homestead. I'm inspired by so many gen X who have achieved this, but I feel like it's…

I did some calculations last night, and this is the conclusion I came to. I am a daycare teacher, in a poor town in Kentucky. A small daycare. I work 11 hours a day, go to work before sunup and in the winter I don't get home til after sundown. Most of the time, I work 50+ hours a week, because we are always short handed. This week I was told I “literally” cannot take a day off because of how shorthanded we are. When I work over 50 hours, I get a paycheck for about 400 dollars. My paystub says I get paid $9 an hour. But when I divide that 400 by 50 (or the 412 by 54 hours I worked last week) it comes to 7.62 cents. Under the Kentucky minimum wage. No wonder I can't afford to live.

So my co-worker left their email signed in and open on a shared computer that is accessible by the entire office. I was the next one to use said computer, and even though I should not have, I scrolled through their email. To my surprise, I come across two separate email threads to my boss about me. The first one, was about me being 5 minutes late on three occasions within a three month time period. I did not think it was a big deal but the email stated otherwise. The email basically said that action would be taken if I am late again. I personally think this is kinda BS as both my co-worker and my boss know that I have 2 small toddlers (I'm sure anyone with kids knows that they can be a handful at time). I can at least understand this as I was late. Whatever……

Earlier today I posted, and was pretty much dogpiled. My clinical and medicated depression was called being “sad”. I thought this was about worker’s solidarity, are we as people with mental illness not part of your movement? Do we not deserve human dignity and compassion like the rest of you? I’m honestly just shocked, why discriminate against workers with mental health problems?