Antiwork

It was clear that they'd overhired, there wasn't enough work for all the workers so we all sort of saw it coming. I'd had some attendance issues related to depression so I knew that if they did a round of layoffs I was vulnerable to due that. By today I'd worked for about 5 1/2 months in the company, from October to February. They told me they were laying me off and I told them I'd seen it coming and no hard feelings. They then deliberately postdated the “last day” to march 1 so I'd have another month of bennies and gave me 2 weeks PTO to help me look for a new job — this also, “coincidentally,” stretched my time worked so that I just barely qualified for unemployment in my state (which has a cutoff for jobs worked less than 6 months) and made sure the paperwork reflected…

So I have never worked at a workplace where politics are brought up. To be completely transparent, I'm a republican, I'm not a die-hard Trumper or care about the religious aspects that stupidly gets grouped with Republicans, I am just conservative fiscally, less taxes, more spending on military etc, I don't care or have an opinion on abortion, I definitely think Gay marriage is fine, etc, i'm on the spectrum of people who just care about the only thing that actually matters, peace and money. Anyways, my boss is a hardcore Democrat and tells me at my first meeting that white people are basically racist assholes, and calls every white person he works with a racist Trumper. To be completely honest, I don't even care about this stuff or the fact that he hates one party or another. He is actively racist himself towards people who are indian, chinese, or…

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I have the opportunity to make a difference for my local hospital, where I have previous work experience. I received the email below from a family friend that works for my local HCA (for-profit) Hospital, and I am able to directly contact them through text. I want to encourage them to offer this as a paid position, but I am not sure how to express that without ruining the relationship my family has with them. I am sharing this here in hopes that some of you have notes on how to be as persuasive as possible. My first draft is: “Hello X, I just received the email that you had sent around regarding the volunteer position for the desk at the Baby Suites. Working at a hospital in any capacity is a direct health risk, and I don't feel that it is appropriate to offer this position without some form…