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Stopped by the supermarket in my town to pick up milk, two boxes of Oreos, and a single pizza lunchable. Cost me $19.76. For fucking 4 items. Oreos priced over $5 a box, and milk sitting at $6.99. And that’s just the price of snacks. Actual groceries are even worse. This is out of control and I’m surprised no one has lost their mind due to the cost of fucking FOOD.

Major vent/rant ahead-TL;DR at the bottom: I posted on another subreddit about a year ago with struggling in the clinic scene (I’m an RN of almost 2 years now), it’s gotten worse and I’m finally making a leap to get out of this mess I’ve found myself in. The coworker I mentioned in a previous post walked out back in August, ever since I’ve been trying to pick up the pieces and manage most, if not everything by myself. The providers had friends of theirs who have worked in healthcare reception before to help manage check-ins while I did triage and patient care. Whenever our help failed to complete their work or flat out did not do it correctly I was the one to pick it all up and fix it. All of this while managing 30-70 patients a day everyday. This means I handled check-ins, insurance verifications and issues,…

TW suicide Anytime someone says the way we live isn't natural and fucked up, there's always someone saying “it was worse in the past, humans have always worked, there has always been slaves, etc.” Like I wasn't even trying to make a comparison. I'm aware fucked up things and unnatural things have always occurred, that doesn't make the way we live and how MUCH we work any more justified. There isn't any getting around the fact were not meant to sit in a box all day doing forced labor just so we won't stave and die and putting work before absolutely everything while not being payed a liveable wage. People will do absolutely anything to justify this, and I'm so tired of it. Like yes I am grateful I don't have it worse, but I also want to kill myself because of how we live. Why are you using one…

Need to not be homeless and afford food, housing, clothes, supplies, literally everything so you are forced to work 8-12 hours a day 5-7 days a week in order to provide for your family? You get what, 4 weeks to possibly a little more of time off after having a kid. Then you have to go back to work because you are only granted x number of maternity or paternity leave and now you have to pay for daycare from then on til age 5 when you can put them in school. Then your work schedule doesn't line up where you can pick them up and need to pay a babysitter til they can be home alone at age 14. All while you are missing recitals, games, birthdays because your employer needs you to stay late to finish stuff that is not important or doesnt actually matter. If you can…

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Players of dungeons and dragons won a major victory against wizards of the coast, forcing their hands by canceling their subscriptions to D&D Beyond. In the statement that Hasbro made they conceded to rolling back many of the things players had problems with. Multiple sources cited that the steep financial consequences were the only reason they felt the need to break the silence. This should be inspiring for not only people in this group, but anybody who feels like they’re exploited by companies. We can do this. We can take action and fight for better conditions and rights as both workers and consumers. Take away their money, take away their labor, and force their hand. I hope you’re all feeling as inspired as I am.

Okay so I posted here a bit ago, link to previous post below, https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/101mljg/work_giving_me_empty_promises_should_i_just_leave/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf In that post I mentioned that I was working part time and would get a permanent position if someone was to leave or whatever, basically one of my colleges got a (in my opinion, a really good job opportunity) and left in the middle of January, therefore a position opened up meaning I’d get full time/permanent position now, right? Wrong! In fact there has been a new person hired and already starting their position :), I’m going to speak to my boss about this next time I see them which will be this week, any advice on what to say and how to not sound like a bitch? I was basically told in my contract I would get permanent if someone left and now it’s changed? My colleges were telling me they have probably forgotten the…