Antiwork

I'm really irritated right now and I absolutely do not understand how my family's income is “too high” for snap. We are a family of 3 living in a 2 bedroom apartment. We pay rent, 700 a month with utilities and other expenses that come out to about 1300 a month. Sometimes more. I understand we are very lucky to have such low rent. I'm not currently working at the moment because we can't afford childcare and don't qualify for assistance because of the same reason we were denied for snap. My boyfriend is the only one with an income. He makes 13 an hour with 4 hours of overtime a week. After everything we pay for it barely leaves us money for any extra emergencies that may pop up and necessities. I don't understand why it's such a big deal to give us a little extra help until I…

I work for an office store that has a common name. Think paper clip. The company is running a promotion where employees can basically write and produce an add for Paperclip to post on their personal tic tok accounts. I don’t have real social media. Reddit is all I use. And I refused to be in the video. I put on weight recently, and I just don’t want to be in a free add for my company, particularly one that will get spread all over the internet. I am going to be written up by my DM. Because I won’t advertise for free for them on a platform I don’t use. I hate my job.

Ever since the pandemic has begun to wane, they've been talking about getting us back in the office. The backlash was immediate, nobody wanted to go back. Hell, after 2 years working remote half of the company had moved away from office hubs with the expectation of being remote permanently. For some of those folks, there began to be whispers of move-back-or-quit ultimatums from leadership. So began our own Great Resignation. ​ In the presence of overwhelmingly negative feedback, Leadership deigned that we'd only be back in the office for *3 days* a week. They tried to sell us on the bullshit of how that was such a great concession and how lucky we were. The negative feedback and turnover continued. Field teams that were expected to appear in WeWork locations all left, and now all the teams I support are full of untenured rubes fresh out of college that…

So you get your high school diploma – your bachelors and your masters – and then there are still people out there that say something like “Oh thats a worthless degree – you deserve to be poor and starve lol”. Besides the fact that anyone working 40 hours a week should NOT live in poverty – these people have a HS Diploma + a Bachelor + a Master Degree. If Baby Boomers could afford a house + family on one income with mininmum wage jobs as high school dropouts – why do some fools sneer at people with degrees? Sure some degrees are in higher demand and earn more than others – thats ok. But to classify a “wrong and worthless” degree as something not qualifying you to get a decent wage while working full time is just ridiculous.