Antiwork

So I just wanted to thank this group. I’ve been doing freelance digital marketing for years now, my partner and I living paycheck to paycheck. Well, after some advice here, I applied for several jobs in marketing in my area, got interviews IMMEDIATELY, and now I’m awaiting offers for at least two of the positions. For context, I’m in the US, and we’ve been making $30k a year and scraping by. I’m not going to take an offer for any less than $60,000 a year, which at least one or two of the positions seems totally willing to offer. (I asked for 65 and they didn’t seem swayed at all). When I started applying for this kind of thing, I didn’t expect to even receive a phone call, but these interviews have shown me that I really know my stuff and that I’m good at what I do. One job…

No //person// suffers if profits do not increase, only the legal fiction called 'corporations'. //People// suffer when profits increase; the consumer pays more or the workers are paid less, relative to profit. My responsibility is to family, friends, workers, species, and planet. Edit: changed “decrease” to “do not increase”

I'll post screenshots once the case is closed. My job offered bonuses if you reached certain quotas. I wound up leaving the job due to reasons detailed in posts on my main account (namely a horrible upper management and being told to ignore covid symptoms because the rest of the team had covid and they needed me). I quit without two weeks notice after ensuring that my bonus from the month before would be safe. When the bonuses were due to pay out mine didn't arrive. They tried to tell me I forfeit it when I quit without notice and that it was at their discretion. I looked it up. They 1. Can't change the agreement after the money is already owed and 2. The wording on the bonus agreement is that they can amend it. Not that it's at their discretion. In my state amendments again cannot happen after…

My husband of 22 years died suddenly in December at age 57. I (55M, 56 this year) can now retire at 60 rather than closer to 68 or 70 because my husband died and I inherited his retirement savings. And I still will need a part-time job until I’m 65 to pay for healthcare until Medicare kicks in. It shouldn’t be this way. We both worked hard and saved what we could but it took one of us dying to be able to retire at a decent age. And now with an out-of-control Supreme Court gay marriage could be overturned and I could lose any Social security benefits of being a widow. Welcome to America 2022. Boomers screwed Gen X first