I'm not saying you should put up with disrespect, racism, or misogyny. What I am saying is that if your otherwise conservative coworkers are trying to talk to you about changing their material conditions, and you want to lecture them about manspreading, microaggressions, or body hair, you're wasting everyone's time. I'm trans. I get it. I get misgendered all the time at work and it sucks. But I make the choice (for myself, not saying anyone else needs to make the same choice on this) to meet people where they are. Everybody loves communism until you call it that. Nobody wants to be talked down to, and having facebook arguments with your coworkers isn't going to get any of us a pay raise. The next time one of your coworkers calls your boss “stupid,” maybe STFU for thirty seconds about how it's ableist to call them that, and start thinking…
Since polls are not available in this sub, wanted to know who else was like me, that refuses to go to the doctors for something minor that can be treated at home like the common cold or a sprained wrist (I work at a hands on factory).
For the past three months I have been working for an IT support company that is part of a larger country-wide franchise. The office is relatively small; typically only 5-6 people in the office at a time plus a few remote employees. I began to notice issues as soon as I was hired on, and honesty should have seen the HUGE red flags before I started. I applied for the job with no previous experience, and minimal education yet was hired the same day. The co-owner mentioned that they were a small team, and had been struggling to keep employees. At that point I didn’t really read into it because I felt lucky to get any job offers at all. My first week on the job was simple enough, they hired me as a workstation deployment specialist so I mainly handle setting up new computers for our clients. They had…
I rather just become a work-a-holic and save up cash and live the minimalist lifestyle with a 1-bedroom cheap ass apartment, a small bookshelf with a bowl of cigarettes on top and the occasional strawberry whiskey and cherry vodka. 🥣 Screw marriage, screw having kids and putting them through this work for debt and extra cash that most likely won't be brought back. Screw the society we live in surrounded by brainwashed societal ass-eating sheeps and fuck low minimum wages, increasing gas prices and the unfortunate disdain and utter greed of modern capitalism. I want to go against society and its expectations, Fuck the system.