“Who's going to pay for it?” is always the question, but there is a deeper and more insidious issue: RACISM. If you look back as to why the so-called richest country in the world treats the majority of its citizens like shit, it's because of racism and anti-blackness specifically. Many whites in this country do not want non-whites to benefit from social programs that would benefit everyone. They would rather all citizens suffer under the guise of the bootstrap mentality. Racism is built into every fabric of our society for over 400 years. This country can afford universal pre-k, universal healthcare, robust maternity leave, free college, and so much more but that would mean ALL Americans would benefit. The Ezra Klein podcast has a great episode on this from 2021. Drained-pool politics — if “they” can also have it, then no one can — helps explain why America still doesn’t…
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As I’m saying in the tittle, I think im getting majorly shafted by my current job and I feel at odds on what to do. I don’t want to hurt my chances of ever moving up but I also want to be fair to myself. So- I’ve been at this new company for 10 months. At the beginning, I tried to get involved in any issue I could solve and try to learn as much as I could. With help of my coworkers, i started writing down SOPs for the department and publishing them for everyone to see so new hires would have an easier time understanding everything (my training SUCKED because these resources were not readily available) At around month 5 they started telling me they wanted me to move up in management and that they had a position for me in mind since I had been doing a…
I've been a contractor at my current job for almost 3 years. A permanent version of my job came up, my boss encouraged me to apply for it, I interviewed, and was told today that they are offering it to someone else outside of the company. I am fully trained and not only already doing the exact job, but have been taking on extra work since the person formerly in the role left. I am the only contractor in the unit and there are 3 other people that have the same job but are FT employees (soon to be 4…). They make more money than me and have excellent benefits (4+ weeks PTO/sick time, inexpensive and great health insurance, etc). I have no PTO and expensive, high deductible crappy health insurance. I feel undervalued and bitter but also that I'm not good enough. I don't know what to do from…
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I Feel Like I’m Irrational and Immature
Just a real short post. I feel like it's disgraceful and disgusting that we must work so hard and so much just to be able to barely scrap by and that life was meant for living. Not working. And given a lot of people's mentality on the while “nobody wants to work anymore” thing it makes me feel like I am an irresponsible adult and am extremely selfish/lazy for feeling that way. But I don't want to waste my life working so hard just to ensure my own survival. I want to live life and just…. be. What's so wrong about that? I want work to be an option, not a literal do or die. If you work to live then are you truly living?
This happened to me today. Let me know what you guys think…
So context. I work for a delivery service and well we have been experiencing truck issues. Today my manager reached out and stated I would not have a truck to run tomorrow. Cool I made other plans. Fast forward 2 hours he texts me to tell me a truck became available. I inform him I can not run as I made other plans based on his earlier message. He replies I need you to run tomorrow. I inform him one more time I can not. I screenshot the message and forward it to who other than HR. They said the expectation is to run? I informed her that I made plans based on the information I was provided and wouldn’t be in. Her response was that she reached out to my managers boss to inform him and make sure that my manager would not reach out to me based on…