Antiwork

I’ve been waiting on the irs to release my taxes for weeks. It’s over the 21 days. I’ve been calling and it always hangs up on me. I just got a new job but in order to take this job, I have to pay for my CPR ($30), background check ($80), and a TB test ($40), plus scrubs that I pay for out of pocket. Why am I having to pay to get paid when the government won’t even give me back the money I paid to them in the first place. Im sure this will get lost in the new posts but I can’t fucking win and I am TRYING. I want to work, I want to be out there, I was offered a job and want to go to it but I can’t afford to. I have no family, I have no support, I went NC with my…

If you don’t make at least minimum wage with tips, your employer is obligated to make up the difference. You can see this law under FLSA. (USA servers))

and it’s a fucking 200 question personality test. These companies are insane. Who in their right mind is willing to pay someone $125k/year but won’t take 10 minutes to call them on the phone and have a quick chat to see what kind of person they are? Pure lunacy. The email has some BS about how they take a “holistic approach” to hiring. Holistic, as in looking at data from 200 random questions and making an assessment of someone’s abilities and personality? Get the fuck out of here.

Following the great resignation — rents are up, groceries are up, gas is up, utilities are up. I used to think there was actually some mathematical reason for this, but pretty sure the ruling class put their tinfoil hats together and decided to jack up all living costs to get warm bodies back in the slave-wage jobs at all the shitty corporations they control. Sick Sad World.