Antiwork

I'm a 29 year old student. I'm going back to school after struggling with some pretty severe depression and anxiety stemming from a history of emotional abuse from my mother. I've been treating the depression as best as I can and I started going back to school after being unemployed for most of the duration of Covid (I worked for the census during the summer of 2021). I went back to school because I needed to feel like I was doing something to move on to the next phase of my life. Once I enrolled I immediately lost all of my SNAP benefits, about $300/mo worth of grocery credits. Because if you're a student you are ineligible for SNAP unless you work 20hr/wk minimum. So here I am taking 18 units per semester working on school work at least 50-60 hours per week including studying/homework/projects. I took 10 units in…

This sub feels like a support group that has helped me through a lot, and I wanted to share my own story. Last year, during a peak of covid cases, my boss at the time decided it was a good idea to tell our 16 employees that they should listen to a certain podcast after work that day. He said this during one of our regular Wednesday morning meetings, which usually consisted of pretty solid life-building exercises and influential content for personal growth. So naturally, I listened to what he sent us on the way home… It ended up being a covid-denying, anti-vax, anti-mask, evangelist Christian podcast that was outright saying that every death from the virus was a hoax. Now, granted.. I do think that people have the right to believe what they want, freedom of speech is a very important privilege in this day and age.. but forcing…

I said no, and he wants to know why. I said, I’m having vision trouble. I just can’t see working today.

Got an email this morning that was sent company wide by the vice president about how “highly unprofessional” it is to discuss wages and salaries with coworkers. They said they wouldn’t put in policies preventing us from discussing, but it’s very discouraged. They can’t legally do that I don’t think? I would attach the screenshot but I can’t disclose who I work for. It’s a very weird way to admit they underpay their employees.

This isn't really work related, but thought I'd share anway. I went skiing this weekend and miscalculated a jump that was higher that expected. Had a really bad fall about 3,5 meters and landed on my tailbone. I couldn't breath nor move and was in urgent need of medical aid. I was quickly examined up by a medical team of two people at the ski resort, before being taken to the ER. There, a doctor and a nurse examined me again and sent me in an ambulance with two medics to the hospital to get an xray of my back. Another nurse took my pictures, and then two other specialized doctors looked at them. Luckily, I didn't break or severly injure anything and was only given heavy painkillers by a third nurse. I was then sent home. I assume I spent about half a day in the hospital being watched…