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Reform vs revolution

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I’m a liar.

I am definitely lying lately in interviews and on my resume. and guess what? I dont give even the HIGHEST flying fuck I graduated with my BS in the middle of the pandemic. We hadn't seen the inside of a classroom in almost a year. I have hardly any experience other than in office settings. Given I should have done more networking in college ~bc networking is so e a s y when you're doing 18 hour work loads, working a full time job & trying to have half a life outside of all the other shit but i digress~ but I didn't. So here I am. Being a big fat fucking liar. I've applied to over 200 places in the last 2-ish months. Had maybe 4 interviews? I dont know if its really the PPP loans like people are speculating (which probably bc big business) but even the “shitty”…

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How do I keep going on like this??

Hi all, I am a 23F working for a Fortune 500 company. I do data entry along with a plethora of other things in my job. Every month we have a report sent to us showing our “error ratio” (how many errors we made divided by our productivity). In October, my error ratio was below our departments standard because of a system failure that is no fault of my own. I asked if that months errors could be tossed out because of the system failure; they told me no, and I got written up for it. Now I watch each month go by with crippling anxiety that I am going to get another write up, despite how hard I work. This job is chipping away at my soul. The amount of daily pep talks I have to give myself is insane. “This job does not define my worth” is a…

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America Runs on a Sick Workforce, and Always has.

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My (former) boss during my unemployment appeal hearing while I’m listing all of the illegal, negligent, and unethical practices at his business

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I quit my disaster job. It’s a hollow fucking victory

Today, I handed in my 3 week's notice to the job that made me so stressed I got health problems. I'll be working at a job where they hired me right at the end of my interview, for significantly higher pay and a higher role. Everyone in my life is congratulating me. I've been crying since I got home. The curriculum I developed at my soon-to-be-ex job was something I poured my heart and soul into. I love nature, I loved getting to manage a garden, I love teaching kids about the world around them! I loved getting to play a big role in the community. I loved the kids. My one manager said it was “inevitable that someone as talented as [me]” would want to leave the organization in search of bigger things. But it really wasn't. I could've done this job forever. It's been the stress and disorganization…

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We suddenly lost a coworker last week. The grief experts say the best way to cope is to come to work!

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Local area manager tries to avoid paying employee who quits. Bootlickers emerge from shadows

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„At what point do we reach satisfaction in life and think ‚fuck yeah, I’m really proud of what I’ve achieved and how far I’ve come’? Well, never. That’s what it means to be in an iron cage.“

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Made a video essay on the meaning and reasons I support the Antiwork movement, the first reply was “Labour shortages due to the entitlement of workers”. Yeah, the entitlement to pay for rent and food, how dare we…

After the drama of the last week or so, my wife and I decide to do the little we can to make a point of what the antiwork movement is, at least to us, and explain our reasoning, along with my story as someone who was indoctrinated to think of “the dream job” where I would work well beyond my paid hours in the name of an “ideal”. we go through concepts like UBI and put the foundations down as to what hopefully can be a mission that makes sense, and someone who I suspect didn't look beyond the title decides that this article about workers “entitlements” is the answer to our struggles. cue eye-roll. Employee entitlements are new challenge that employers must deal with https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Employee-entitlements-are-new-challenge-that-16752132.php