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After collecting nearly $1,000,000 in forgiven PPP loans, Cured at the Pearl struggles to hire line cooks at $13 an hour.

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If I get paid more, I will have less money. This system is broken.

I'm on Medicaid. I'm only a little below my state's income cutoff. Without Medicaid, the cost of my healthcare would be close to $3,000 at minimum per year when you factor in insurance premiums, the deductible, copays, etc. So needless to say, Medicaid is an absolute necessity for me. The thing is, I kind of hate my job. It's a “good” job. I like the company I work for, I have benefits. I'm just burned out and sick of spending my day dealing with rude patients. A new position just opened up in my company. It's right up my alley. Relevant experience for my field of study, less patient interaction. And apparently the pay is better though I don't know the exact amount. The pay rate is a problem. If I earn even a dollar over my state's cutoff, I lose my Medicaid. My employer could pay me a whole…

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Genuine Question: What Will Happen When the Boomers Die?

Let's say we survive the climate crisis. Boomers are getting older and sicker and the majority will, statistically, die out in the next 10 years. I've never worked in an office or even grunt job (think childcare/Costco) without Boomers. When we lose such a huge percentage of the wealthy and job- holders, what could happen to our economy, housing market, job market, etc?

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The truth has been spoken! We are all waiting for it.

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I’m partially disabled & can’t find a job that will employ me without giving me a hard time about needing to be off 7 to 9 days a month.

Let me start by saying I'm a college student who has recently given up on school. I can't financially afford to attend my classes due to unemployment. I have severe uterine fibroids, this means I'm on a narcotic to control the pain & hemorrhage 7 to 9 days a month. I'm not totally disabled, I want to work, but all resources available to me are turned down because of lack of insurance to have surgery & my inability to public transportation. Did I mention I live with my mom in a one bedroom & she's totally disabled with limited income. I'm a professional truck driver, but can't get off the pain meds so I can get a medical card to get my cdl back. I do have an F endorsement for now. However, my cdl is a class A with an passenger endorsement. What can I do to provide for…

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A place that ghosted me in 2019 just called me and asked if I wanted to work.

I applied to this place in Nov '19, and they just called me while I'm working and asked me if I was still interested in their shitty 11$ an hour job. They ghosted me around Thanksgiving that year, after coming in for an interview and being told I would get an offer. Their excuse was “systems went down” and I never heard back despite multiple attempts to reach out. I was on unemployment with covid on the horizon. I have a much higher paying job RIGHT NEXT DOOR now. It took everything in me not to just laugh and tell them to go fuck themselves. But that doesn't mean I said it nicely either! Looks like companies are starting to hurt lol

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I’m not going to beg for more work

I work as the only interior designer for a tiny architecture firm. I was hired about 8 months ago and I was so pumped. However, after being there a while, I feel that the title was misleading. It should have been described as a CAD technician position. That's what I do 98% of the time – pushing a mouse carrying out someone else's ideas. It is very boring, mindless, and unfulfilling for what I thought would be a creative position. My boss is a very nice person and I don't want to take advantage but I also don't believe my job requires me to commute everyday and stay in glorified cubicle until the clock strikes 5. I also get the feeling he hires less experienced people so he can pay his employees less. (I've been in the industry for 5 years) I recently figured out that my boss either has…

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I just billed out my entire yearly salary (before tax) to a client with an hour’s work.

I got a 3% raise and cant afford the gas to get to work, but at least the CEOs are happy.

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thanks for risking my safety and wasting my time

Absolute bullshit what my office does to us. 7 inches of snow they could let us know works canceled we all have company phones and emails but no they have us drive in in company trucks risking our lives I slid off the road but luckily someone was there to pull me out. Get to the office get told stand by for an hour shoveled snow for the office personnel all unpaid only to get told hey thanks for coming in drive 20 mins back 40 minutes in this weather. I should have just stayed the fuck at home a waste of 3 hours of my life by the time I drove there and back and shoveled for free. At this stage working construction is costing me money with as little work as I've had. If I'm going to get fucked might as well work for a factory that always…

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Tracked by company using 3 separate systems

I need to rant. I work for a big named company (can’t give the name). Our time is tracked down to the last second. We are tracked by every click, scroll, typing, etc that we do. Each day we have to use 3 different systems that we have to log in and out of for breaks, lunches etc. I stepped away for 1-2 minutes just to get a drink and when I came back I was told I would need to stay on a minute later to make up the time.. It’s frustrating because a BIG boss was giving a presentation to my group and forgot to mute themself. Where were they? Out shopping!! We could hear them asking for different sizes of clothing items they wanted to purchase. I feel like I can’t even take a few seconds to breathe without getting an email. We are literally suppose to…