Antiwork

I know it's probably just conditioning combined with my general anxiety but does anyone else feel this way? I needed a mental health day but I feel like I'd need one just to ask tomorrow off and thus, the vicious cycle begins.

I have a sneaking suspicion that for those of us who work corporate/white collar jobs we are going to look back at the last two years as the fondest of our careers. Before the dick bags running the shit corporations we work for force us back into an office bc its “where incidental conversations thrive”.

So for some background, the place I work at is a factory that produces medical equipment like stints and catheters. There's been a lot of past attempts to unionize, the last big one back in 2008, but we still don't have one because HR is particularly good at appeasement. Anyway, earlier today we had an employee meeting to air grievences (part of that whole “appeasement” thing), and during it I nervously brought up that “other companies have proposed an 8% raise in accordance with our states' inflation rate”. The HR rep said they weren't discussing it as far as they knew, and I backed off the point. HOWEVER, after a few more comments from others, I asked if a lot of work-from-home people in HR are being made to come back to the office, though I prefaced it by mentioning how that would affect parking for us. I also mentioned…

I was getting an Uber home from where I work (at a hospital) and it was taking for ever, so I figured maybe drivers don’t want to pick up sick people especially at the risk of getting someone with covid Mentioned this to the driver and he said that no it’s because “young people don’t want to work these days, they want to live on the dole [australian term for welfare] and play video games all day.” ((Fuck i’d love that life thanks)) I sort of just moaned trying to not start an argument cause I mean I’m in his car lol Later he mentioned how he “works 70 hours and gets paid for 40” Unsure how anyone can acknowledge horrible working conditions and also sledge anyone who would dare not accept those horrible conditions. Guy was about 70 of course … Title is the TLDR

I cant talk to them about anything. Ive brought up statistics about how big corpos are making even more money, and more and more people are living paycheck to paycheck. Their answer: “people spend money they dont have. People want free money. People dont want to work.” Id have them check this subreddit but they dont understand technology (theyre only in their late 50s but its stupid how annoying they are with tech) They blame everything on Biden or other countries. They dont see anything wrong with big corpos or congress. They think the people living paycheck to paycheck are worthless people, yet soon im going to be one of those people, and tbh, they will soon as well. How do i convince them that corpo greed and rich hoarders are the problem

I’ve been applying for jobs for weeks now, and every time I have to type in the information for one of my past jobs, I’m just sick to my stomach. I was the CSR and had to say the info almost 100 times a day. The job was the worst I’ve ever had. There was -0- healthcare, the owner was manipulative. He could convince you of anything, but he was just a liar. I was promised a promotion once the new head of the shop wasn’t cutting it, and instead I was working 6 days a week 9 or 10 hours a day for 3 months to pick up the other guys slack. No promotion, and no raise. There were times we straight up didn’t get paid. Oh, and the kicker? They never sent me a W-4 last year so I I could file my damn taxes. And the W-4…