70+ hours a week, rotating roster, varying start times. I'm done. I've lost all my friends and family due to the demands of this job. I see people complain about a 40 hour week, I can't even begin to fathom how liberating only working 8 hours a day would be. Considering going back to a minimum wage job or abandon job security and work as a casual 3-4 days a week to keep me afloat while trying to study again. I can't keep up this life any longer.
I want to preface this with saying I am talking about one of my best friends who lives in and works in Tokyo Japan and what his work life balance is like. He works in the medical technology development field. A highly important and valued line of work that he truly loves but it highly stressful and a lot of to do with being forced and and expected to kiss up to management. Not only do you work unnecessary hours 10 hours is considered light, being underpaid considering what he does, working more than 5 days a week but you are expected to hang out with your coworkers especially management afterwork because that is where a lot of stuff gets done because that that is the way the work culture is and that means spending a lot of time at bars and night clubs. You might ask what's the problem…
I’m curious if anybody here would seriously consider leaving the cities and working on becoming more self sufficient, learning practical skills, to live a sustainable homestead lifestyle, and building small communities with other like minded people? I realize this is unrealistic for many people that have immediate obligations and families to feed. But what about the rest of us? The younger generation that have the opportunity to escape wage slavery and are waking up to the reality of where things are headed with increasingly unsustainable cost of living, It won’t be easy and will take a lot work and manual labor, but you would be working for your own future and not slaving away for the greed system.. I’m sure we all know someone or have a family member that works in a skilled trade, go learn from them! offer up your time and work in exchange for learning a…
I currently work as a security guard and the vast majority of my day aside of my patrols I am basically doing nothing. My job has a no phone policy but I ignore it and play on my phone/gaming handheld to pass the time anyway. I read from other security guard jobs that they are free to use their phones and even gaming laptops to pass the time and managment doesn't care. I also don't see a supervisor maybe once every two weeks when they drop off my paycheck. For jobs I hear that being a night reception clerk at a hotel might be a job where they don't care if you are on your personal devices. I want to know what other options might be available that is slow and have lots of downtime to use phones/ gaming devices?
I went to HR I suffer from anxiety. I work in security. I may have misunderstood a direction or order and this caused a few minute delay as I had another employer verify an issue. On the phone my supervisor’s began telling me I have no common sense and my anxiety broke, I had an attack and said something. I was ordered to report to the office. At the office I was informed how unacceptable my behavior was. I informed them I was having an anxiety attack and was told it didn’t matter and wasn’t an excuse. So after being berated for half an hour I hid in the restroom until I had enough composure go to my supply bag and get my emergency medications. When I came out I was confronted again. Another 10 min hiding in the restroom I finally go to my pills. So I committed the…
For reference, we’re a very small business of 6 total people including the two owners. So yeah, she thought we “were volunteering our time for this” because the photos are for Christmas cards to give to customers. So I clocked back out and promptly put my hands in my pockets while my bosses set up the camera etc. My coworkers arrived and did not clock in. After about 10 minutes of me doing exactly nothing, my boss tells me I can clock in if I want to. I’m sorry for writing this weirdly, I just. What the shit? What the absolute fuck did my boss think I was gonna do after arriving at work? This is still work. Believe it or not, EVERYTHING I do for our customers is work, and I should be paid for it! It’s so weird how jobs involve getting paid for labor, even if that…
It's just their go-to thing to say, isn't it? “This sub is just an echo chamber.” “reddit is such a hive mind.” I ask you, what is the difference between an echo chamber and a large group of people who genuinely, honestly disagree with you? What are we supposed to do, designate a group of people to agree with some hateful bullshit so the conservatives don't feel left out? If you are someone who just really enjoys eating worms, and you go into some sub and talk about how you love eating worms, and almost everyone is like, oh wow yuk not my thing at all gross — is that sub an echo chamber? Have all those people just been brainwashed by diabolical anti-worm-eating propaganda perpetuated by the liberal media? No. Worm eating is just yucky. [anyone who wants to talk about sustainable protein sources of the future etc., calm…