My mom (in Louisiana) is the only employee working at a local gas station. The other employee is out with COVID. She's been scheduled for 16 hour shifts more than 40 hours a week. Thing is she's paid in cash, and not being paid overtime. Thinking it's too avoid paying taxes.
I work in childcare and I get paid like shit. I’ve been thinking of quitting for awhile because I can’t afford to be paid $11 an hour. Anyway, my manager and I were talking yesterday and I found out she makes less than me. She’s thinking of quitting soon because she has a baby on the way and she can’t afford things while being paid like shit. She encouraged me to leave because she understands I can’t afford to live, and I’m really happy that she understands. Anyway, just wanted to get that out. Super happy about it.
I was not made for this world And all it's sorrow and hate I was not made for this world And all it's pain and heartbreak I was not made for this world And it's dreary nine to five I was not made for this world Where you're too stressed to feel alive I was not made for this world And it's never ending loss I never asked to be born Yet every moment I pay the cost I was not made for this world And I can't wait to leave To a place dark and peaceful Where I'll never again greive
First: mods please delete if this violates the trolling rule (but there is some intention behind this)… This is absurd, but I decided during my monthly supervision with my micromanaging capatalistic tyrant for a boss, I will be putting THIS SONG (link below) on a continuous music loop in my office in the background: https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY Yes, it won't do much. And I am not even sure this individual has the intellectual capacity to discern the shade I am trying to signal their way or if they even truly care until our staffing shortages dip another 2-4 resignations before they have to be impacted by the labor losses from their shitty maltreatment of the employees they “supervise”, but it brought my colleague and I some joy knowing we all agree to play this nonstop for a few mandatory meetings we have with them as our “light background noise” per our company…
I'm going to give a backstory to this because there is a LOT of layers. Feel free to ask questions and I'll clarify. (Using a throw away for added anonymity) Tldr at bottom. For the past 5 years I gave my entire heart and soul into a local Science Center. I was the only paid employee and did the work of at least 8 people. MINIMUM. I never complained because i LOVED what i did. When i started there, i began taking in rescued animals to have on display or interact with schools. I was the only care taker of the animals for years. It was a huge hit for the Center. This Science Center is a non-profit organization run by a Husband and Wife. They are in their 70's and the husband in particular was on a slow mental decline throughout the years. The wife had serious anger issues…
They are about to fire 2.8k humans because a handful made bad management decisions
TLDR- in a brand new workplace I’ve found my workmates and I to be very compatibly pro-labor and committed to creating a good work environment. I and four others were just hired to open a new store in my city (another two exist in a city a few thousand miles away). The boss has a ton of other commitments/businesses so for our first two days of work, they just left us alone to clean/organize/prep the new space. Well y’all it’s day fucking two and I love this crew. Our hourly is what it is because we will receive approx 30% of our total earnings in tips but for now we are doing 2-3 weeks of work before the store can open and therefore cannot receive any tips. We discussed strategies for collectively negotiating a temporary pay raise for this time along with a plan to negotiate a revision to our…