After 2ish years and 1,000 tiny cuts I'm putting in my notice today. My boss has continued to ignore my recommendations, kept me from valuable conversations, and was a giant obstacle to my job. He gives a lot of “verbal tips” but I haven't felt valued as an employee in 18 months. They'll struggle in my absence. But not my circus, not my monkeys. Wish me luck!
Not to bring down the boomer gen, because in history they were bamboozled and abused imo by this system. However, it is funny how my parents freak out if I take a sick day out of nowhere. They don't understand how I get to choose my life over some empty job. Talking to my parents during the pandemic and how my mom and I saw how so many people got back to being human beings. While my dad said “humans are made to work” When I looked at him I realized how he was brainwashed by this system. Now again, I do have certain friends my age that are still chasing the dream they will never achieve because they don't realize they don't have the talent, income, or connections these billionaires have lol. However, even in my work the older individuals freak out if I decided to do what's best…
That is all, end of Monday morning rant.
Today is my 6 month anniversary at my current job, I got given a number to call and talk about getting me set up with benefits and the guy flat out refused to help me saying I don't qualify unless I work 28 hours a week on average. I'm not technically full time but I easily get 32-35 hours per week most of the time, and have had atleast 2 weeks where I did 44 hours, but from Jan-now I was only getting 25-28 hours/week due to it being the “off season.” I'll be getting more hours this month since it's picking back up. Update as I was writing this: my boss told him to go ahead and unroot his head from his ass and give me the forms to fill out. What a rollercoaster this past 20 minutes have been.
I work( Ed) at a charter school as a math and ela specialist for children with learning disabilities. This is the first year where I was having serious thoughts of jumping in front of train rather than face another day at work. They just moved us into a new building where they had shoddy, non-union construction teams redo everything and, consequently, make it all worse. The workers were loitering around the parking lots and on several occasions got into fist-fights with staff members. We were going days at a time without electricity. There is no heat or running water throughout most of the building. If it didn't violate the screenshot rules, I could show you the emails and recordings of administration admitting to all of this and saying we all need to be more flexible. Little kids were regularly peeing themselves because we only had a few functional toliets for…
I am a military spouse (for context). There are signs in all of the commissaries I have been to, which state something along the lines of “baggers are not employees, they rely on your tips.” They are considered “self-employed under a license agreement with the installation commander.” Meaning they don't even fall under “tipped employees” statute – which is still trapped in the $2.13/hour federal cash wage law. They make $0.00 if you don't tip them. I used to see a more even split between elderly baggers and young teenage baggers. Recently I've noticed about 90%+ (at the commissary I go to) of the baggers are young teenagers. There are always a LOT of teens standing by to bag, so there's no way they make a lot of money. I have multiple problems with the non-payment “self-employment” approach. PEOPLE DESERVE TO BE PAID FOR THEIR LABOR. 1a. People deserve to…
